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Find and Replace with line breaks in Eclipse 2 months ago

Often with doing a find and replace you want to use line breaks in the find (or replace) criteria. Sometimes I’ll have a column of data from a csv that I want to modify…whatever. You can now check the “regular expressions” checkbox while doing a file search in Eclipse and …

Error restoring MySQL database when USING BTREE on indexes 2 months ago

Occasionally when I’m restoring a database that was backed up from a different server than the one I’m restoring on I get an error along the lines of: Hmm, the docs suggest that BTREE is a valid index type for both MyISAM and InnoDB. So why is it barfing? Well it turns out dumping the …

Turning voice over off permanently on Max OSX 2 months ago

One of the keyboard shortcuts I often use is command-F6, but I seem to accidentally hit command-F5 on most occasions Problem with this is that the god awful “voice over” starts yapping away. Well if you’re like me and know that you’ll pretty much never want this enabled …

Twitter bootstrap – modal not working in firefox 6 months ago

Quick heads up for those having issues getting the modal window in the twitter bootstrap to work in firefox, I had a problem where the overlay would show but not the actual modal window content. Seems there is a problem if you’re using animation (fade etc). See here for more …

Customising search results from google cse 9 months ago

Google custom search engine (cse) is pretty cool, in fact it’s very cool. Within minutes you can have the ability to search your entire site all with a snippet of code! And for a nominal fee you can deliver these results without ads We use google cse for most of our sites but the [...]
keywords coldfusion, custom search engine, google, snippet

FarCry Plugin – Webtop Tools 9 months ago

We’re starting to compile a list of internal tools used when developing a FarCry application. I thought it might be simpler to create a small FarCry plugin to keep them all in the same place, makes it easier to use across multiple projects. The plugin currently contains 2 scripts: FarCry …
keywords farcry, mysql, scripts

Label vs Title in FarCry 9 months ago

All system content objects (and those custom types which extend “types” or “versions” etc) in FarCry have the “label” and “title” properties. Most of the time the value of these are identical, I find myself typically using the “title” …
keywords content objects, farcry, formtools

FarCry Tip – Enable cfc’s in your Railo ProxyPassMatch 10 months ago

I ran into an issue today while working on a FarCry project, basically when I opened up the “Related Content” popup from the WYSIWYG editor it was blank. Nothing. Not the usual tabs for Images, File, Flash etc. The Railo logs were empty but Apache was throwing a strange error which I …
keywords apache, cfc, farcry, flash, images, logs, railo, strange error, tabs, wysiwyg editor

FarCry – grouping formtool category items 10 months ago

A new project we’re working has the need to categorise each new content object, for this we use the built in FarCry category/keyword formtool. By default the render type is a multi-select tree, I wanted a single select dropdown. Luckily formtools makes this oh so simple. <cfproperty …
keywords coldfusion, farcry

FarCry Tip – remove install directory 10 months ago

After you install FarCry you must make sure to delete the “install” folder(s) that FarCry leaves behind. Otherwise it’s possible for anyone to access the installer wizard again from your production website, and as it’s the installer they don’t even need to be logged …
keywords coldfusion, farcry, havoc, leaves, wizard