I will be speaking at the New York City ColdFusion Users Group this Wednesday March 26th at 6:30pm. My topic is Image Manipulation in ColdFusion 8. You will learn how to manipulate and extract information from existing image files, and also how to create
I spent a some time this weekend preparing for the Adobe AIR & Flex 3 Launch Event at my ColdFusion user group. One thing I wanted to show people was how to build a simple Adobe AIR Desktop Application using HTML & JavaScript.
I found the AIR Pla
I've known about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views (or system tables) in SQL Server for a while, but I just leared recently that they are actually part of the SQL-92 standard and supported on other database platforms.
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA views provide meta
Moving a subversion repository from one server to another, while still preserving all your version history may seam like a daunting task, but fortunately it's not too difficult.
I recently had to move a subversion (svn) repository to another server. The
Foundeo is holding a special promotion through the rest of 2007. We have bundled Foundeo's popular Image Effects Component for ColdFusion 8 along with the full source of our Simple Feed Parser for ColdFusion for $49.99 (you save $139!).
A great way to u
Here's a quick tip for project management, and staying on top of tasks...
I am always getting tasks, bugs, or change requests via email, IM, or phone. Sometimes I don't always write them down because they are small enough to keep in my head, sometimes I
If you work with version control systems like subversion (svn) I'm sure you can relate to the problem of having test files show up when you try to commit changes. It is actually pretty simple to tell subversion ignore directories or specific files.
You c
Brian Love has released Ext.cfc which allows you to easily use the Ext.js library with ColdFusion. This makes it easy to create a CFGRID like UI in JavaScript, without CFGRID, or ColdFusion 8.
This was also covered on the Ext blog and Ajaxian - nice work
Spry recently had an embarrassing security breach, in which several email addresses and passwords were stolen.
To start with it appears that the breach was made through some malware/spyware installed on an employee's office computer. His username and pa
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out why I kept getting this error:
"Element CACHE is undefined in APPPLICATION."
My first thought was that somehow the CACHE variable was being deleted from the application structure, somewhere in the code.