My hard drive crashed on Wednesday so I’ve been without my Dell laptop for a couple of days now. I have a Mac mini that I use to test my webpages in Safari so I’ve been using it (sparingly) while I wait on my new hard drive to arrive. Normally my interaction with OSX is […]
read moreThanks to Tim Jackson for bringing this one to my attention. Since I’ve worked in Coldfusion I’ve always used code similar to this: <cfset variables.protocol = iif(CGI.SERVER_PORT EQ 443, de(“https”), de(“http”))> So that I could avoid the “This page contains unsecure items.” message when embedding Flash, Javascript, images, etc. <img src=”#variables.protocol#://www.foo.com/linkedimage.jpg”/> Tim advised me that […]
read moreAs a developer I’m always trying to find ways to encapsulate functionality. For years I’ve tried to encapsulate UI code so that I could “quickly and easily” build user interfaces. However, I’m starting to understand that this type of thinking can get me into trouble. Don’t misunderstand me, there are some great UI libraries like […]
read moreIs it just me or does everyone with a blog feel the need to report the exact same news? For instance today I must have seen over 30 blog posts about the Sun/MySQL aquisition. (I’m sure that’s a conservative number.) After running this blog for almost a year I fully understand how hard it is […]
read moreMy little blog has been neglected lately. With the busy holiday season and a recent period of illness I haven’t had much time to think about a good topic. Honestly, I still don’t have one, but I thought it was time to get back to updating this thing.
read morehttp://projects.nikhilk.net/Projects/WebDevHelper.aspx It’s so hard to debug my pages in IE. While this isn’t Firebug it does make debugging AJAX requests in IE so much easier.
read moreAdobe really needs to do a better job of marketing Coldfusion to new developers. A friend of mine is an aspiring developer and getting his feet wet with .NET. He’s always so impressed when I show him how easy it is to write Coldfusion. Today I was showing him a Coldfusion project I’m currently working […]
read moreA neat little utility for generating rounded corner images: http://www.roundedcornr.com/
read moreThanks to Tim for reminding me what a headache this can be! I’m guilty of creating SQL statements like so: SELECT testfield FROM sometable Today that caused a real problem. An error that was incredibly difficult to find. The error message was: 11 >= 11 null Seriously, that was the error message displayed by Coldfusion. […]
read moreI ran into a problem trying to return the newly created identity from a table. The identity column was a uniqueidentifier type. Table structure: UniqueID uniqueidentifier TextField varchar(50) I needed to retrieve the new UniqueID value after an INSERT statement. The default value for UniqueID is set to newid(). Here is my original code: <cfquery […]
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