The benefits of cloud computing
Recently wrote a blog article about the benefits of cloud computing. If you’re new or just interested in what cloud computing is, and how it effects you or your business check it out.
http://blog.nga.net/2012/04/the-benefits-of-cloud-computing/
Mach II: event.getArg() and event.isArgDefined()
Mach II being an event driven framework you can imagine what the Event Object is like. It’s as described in the doco, the heart of Mach-II request life-cycle. In a nut shell, it pulls all the form & url variables form requests and throws it into the event object.
This will look for an event argument called title.
Either set by the URL or the Form… Continue reading
SQL Complete – Auto completer for SQL Server
For those of you who use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio – this is a must!
I’ve always had problems where I keep forgetting what the column names of tables are when I’m writing out SQL. Most cases I’ve just done a quick sp_help against the table.
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You can even highlight the table name and hit Alt + F1 and this will… Continue reading
ColdFusion Builder is slow, but who cares
I’ve been shitting bricks with CFBuilder today. I know the guys are working on bug fixes and improving performance, but I’m still ranting!
I’m using ColdFusion Builder 2
Anyway, here’s a list of things I’ve done to try improve performance…
Most these settings are under Preferences, to get there: Window > Preferences
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Disable Syntax Checking
Goto: ColdFusion > Profiles > Editor > Syntax Checking
Fusebox, it’s back!
Recently saw on the twitterverse that Fusebox is making a come back!!!!
err.. maybe not that fusebox. But anyway!
Fusebox Framework!
…with a new development team.
Current Contributors
Bill King
Chris Diller
Francisco Carmona
John Blayter
Phillip Spongola
All I can say is yay! I think most if not all ColdFusion developers have used/put up with Fusebox. I know that I… Continue reading
Toggling hidden div using jQuery
Okay, this morning came across a great question asked by one of the community members of CFWheels, it’s a rather common-ish problem.
So you have the following setup, a few records in the database being displayed with a checkbox and a hidden div to display extra details:
#checkboxTag(name=”showExtraDetails”, class=”checkme”)#
Now for the jQuery… Continue reading
CFWheels – screencasts!
Chris has been doing these screencasts on how to build a social networking site. If you want to learn about CFWheels or try it out, I HIGHLY recommend checking out these videos.
Rocketboots – Galaxy
Discovered this great open source project by Rocketboots, called Galaxy. It basically allows you to control and manage multiple services and instances of applications. A great example is a login script that takes in LDAP requests, or an app that delivers files to users.
Check out the video, great to watch when having that toasted cheese n bacon sandwich 
… mmmm that makes me hungry now!… Continue reading
Eclipse Helios
Okay, I’ve had enough of my eclipse – time for an upgrade! In comes Eclipse Helios along with Subversive and CFEclipse – my IDE is all ready for coding
Some of the features in Helios; Xtext, Git Support, Improved API Tools, Target platform and resource improvements and plenty more!
Eclipse Helios: http://www.eclipse.org/helios/
Eclipse Subversive: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
CFEclipse: http://cfeclipse.org/… Continue reading
CFWheels 1.1.1 released!
Latest release of CFWheels 1.1.1 is a maintenance release with some bug fixes to the following areas:
– Added number formatting on the value passed in to “count” in the pluralize() function
- Fixed renderWith() so that it works in all environment modes when returning JSON
- Fixed belongsTo association code when using composite keys
- Allow cfthread to be used in views
- Fixed paging code for non-parameterized queries
- Corrected bug in request… Continue reading
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