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Getting A List Of Application Names In ColdFusion
Andy asks: Is there a way to get a list of application names from all of the Application.cfc running on a server. I'm trying to dynamically build a server.applicationNameArray by just dropping a web app into the web tree.
Date: 2007-12-27
When Does A Session Start?
Darren asks: I want to use on sessionstart to initiate a session variable and then use that value in a function call to to set the default language for a site but I get an error saying the session var isn't there.
Date: 2007-11-29
ASP.NET: Re-enable Request Validation
Request validation is enabled by default in ASP.NET and it basically stops people from submitting a form with HTML in any of the input fields.
Date: 2007-10-18
Questions About CFThread
Nathan Smith sent me some questions on CFThread. I've broken up his email and bit and have commented with my opinions.
Date: 2007-09-27
ColdFusion 8: Reading The Top (or Another Slice) Of A File
In the ColdFusion IRC channel today, someone asked about reading just the top portion of a file. While she was looking for a command line solution and not ColdFusion, I thought it would be interesting to share how easy it is in ColdFusion 8 using the new file attribute to CFLOOP.
Date: 2007-09-07
Get Prepared For Growing Projects
Widgets are all the rage lately, as evidenced by the avalanche at Facebook once the social networking site opened up to developers.
Date: 2007-08-16
Widgets A Hit With Kids
Widgets are all the rage lately, as evidenced by the avalanche at Facebook once the social networking site opened up to developers.
Date: 2007-07-05
Comment The Class Before Coding
The planning phase of most projects no matter the size result in some kind of documentation or manuals for coding. It could be a rough sketch of the data flow, a UML diagram, feature specifications etc.
Date: 2007-05-24
Google Software Engineer on Google Images
I’ve asked Google some questions in regards to their image search engine. Here are the answers by Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google.
Date: 2007-05-24
Dealing
W/ Cookie-less Sessions
Axel asked a question about Vista Gadgets that I thought I
would discuss here. Sessions with MS Vista. I'm building a
VISTA gadget calling an external CFM page using flash forms.
It looks really cool, in particular in a flyout window.
Date: 2007-05-03
The Myth of W3C Compliance?
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the number of
search engine optimisers preaching about the vital importance
of W3C Compliance as part of any effective web promotion effort.
Date: 2007-04-19
Lenssen On X/HTML5
Some people in the vicinities of the web standardization group W3C (but not directly the W3C) are working on a new version of HTML/ XHTML called HTML 5 (or Web Hypertext Application Technology or X/HTML5).
Date: 2007-03-29
Setting Up Apache Server Mappings For HomeSite
This information was gleaned from a number of websites and my own trials in getting this to work, but I thought it would be useful to have it in one place for other HomeSite users who may not be overly familiar with server configuration.
Date: 2007-03-08
ASP.NET - A Simpler AJAX Implementation
A week ago I wrote about the native client callback feature of ASP.NET 2.0 and why it isn't always the smart choice.
That post got me some good feedback that inspired me to build a custom callback implementation so you wouldn't have to use the native one.
Date: 2007-02-22
A Universal Data Type Checker
In many different scenarios we need to check if a string can be converted into an integer e.g. This could be when we work with query strings and need to check if they match a certain data type.
Date: 2007-02-01
The Mobile Chaos Continues...
Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time with Samsung), and Yahoo released Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released their mobile search, which didn't include a search box).
Date: 2007-01-09
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