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Easy Subclipse and Coldfusion Builder

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

After messing around with this for too long I got it too work.

Settings max_allowed_packet MySQL

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:18:00 GMT

This is just a note so I don't always have to look it you.

Furnishweb on Handshake 2.0

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:12:00 GMT

Article on FurnishWEB a furniture industry service we wrote in Coldfusion and Fusebox.

Whitehouse uses Jquery.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:27:00 GMT

The new whitehouse.gov is using jquery.

Defaulting the cursor to the First input box on any page.

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:59:00 GMT

How to use Jquery to default the cursor to the first text box on any page in your site.

QForms + Jquery

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:00 GMT

Using qForms and jQuery together.

Coldfusion Debug and Heap Space Errors

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:59:00 GMT

Coldfusion can run out of memory while debug is on.

Big Move to AZ Day 3

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:59:00 GMT

We're in Albuquerque New Mexico! Next Stop AZ.

Big Move to AZ Day 2

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:08:00 GMT

I need to find Jaime's USB cable so I can upload photos :)

We are in Fort Smith, Arkansas

MYSQL Slow Subquery using IN

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Fix for MYSQL subqueries that take forever when used in an IN.

Mysql Joined Updates

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Writing updates from more than one table.

Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:43:00 GMT

EC2 is getting a persistent hard drive.

Once

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:07:00 GMT

The indie Irish movie that could.

Coldfusion Hates the New Macbook Pro

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:54:00 GMT

Please fix the Coldfusion Installer

Sleep through the Static

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Jack Johnson's New Album out Today

Fun with Dabble, S3 and Coldfusion

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:00:43 GMT

Well another project done and set live today. We just released a new site for one of our furniture manufacturing clients: Solutions .

What's noteable and kinda fun is the technology behind this one. Our customer wanted a web presence quickly to showcase their products. The only information they had were EXCEL spreadsheets ( everything is always in excel :) ).

So what do you do?

We decided to try out some cool web based services to help them out.

Step 1: Imported all the product information into Dabbledb.

Step 2: Edited the products in Dabbledb and add any missing information.

Step 3: Used CFJSON and CFHTTP to pull the product information into MYSQL.

Step 4: Used the Amazon S3 component and a simple CF interface to resize images and store them in S3 based on product information.

STEP 5: Code the Screens using Coldfusion and Fusebox.

We decided to pull the information out of dabble and store it in MySQL to run the site so we could write the queries for the site in plain SQL. Dabbledb is really powerful for manipulating spread sheet data and saved us the time and our customers the cost of building a front end for marinating product information. We are using a custom script I wrote for ImageMagick for resizing the images. The java ones never seem to resize small thumbnails very well. Although i haven't played with the CF8 ones yet.

This project reminds me how great a community we have of CF developers. CFJSON,S3 and Fusebox are all thanks to them.

Our First Reactor Site

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:24:43 GMT

We'll we finished our first Reactor based website. It was a flat HTML site we upgraded to Coldfusion/Fusebox/Reactor/MYSQL with some basic CMS updates for links and content.

Before

After

It went pretty well. I wish the documentation for Reactor was more up to date. maybe if I have time this week I'll post about a few things I learned to help out others. I'm deep into my next reactor project already.

This project was the first one we used JQUERY on also. I have no idea how I got along so long without it. It is pretty fantastic and has really good documentation.

EDIT: For a test we used JQUERY for the Mouseovers on the main page. We were going from an premade FLASH design to HTML. So we made the Animated Gifs and swap them with the black and white images. The text on the main page is also swapped with JQUERY. Most of the JQUERY stuff is in the administrative section of the site to help manage the forms and links.

Since JQUERY lets you bind events to objects when pages load I have changed the architecture of our fusebox sites to include a dsp_jsp.cfm file for each page. This is included in the $(document).ready() section of the page via content variables. It's much better than all the JS cluttering up the HTML in our displays. In the future I might try and do something slick to have it as an include instead of stuck at the top of the page.

Music Slacker

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:04 GMT

As an avid fan of Pandora for a long time, I think I am finally converted to Slacker. Pandora is cool in theory. It lets everyone vote on a song and can select similar music for you. I can honestly say I listened to things I would have never chosen because of it. That's kind of it's downfall also. I HAD to listen to some weird stuff I didn't like.

With slacker you can create a station of things that you like. This has the same skip limitations, but I find I don't skip much. They have programmed stations, but they seem to repeat themselves a lot. I will probably still listen to Pandora when I am in the mood to be adventurous, but for my "coding" music I much prefer Slacker. Check it out.

Instantspot Style Editor

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:17 GMT

Thought I would try out the style editor today. How fun is this? My site now has a cool Arizona theme from a trip my girlfriend and I took a few years back.

The style editor is pretty fun. I just took a template from the template exchange uploaded it. Uploaded a trip photo to the header. Then used the Web Developer CSS editor in Firefox to change it a little to match my head logo (Well it matches to me).

And in a few minutes brand new site. Very cool.

Now I just need to track down a real photo of me to replace the batman.

Web Icons

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:49:31 GMT

I am forever doing admin utilities for our web projects. CMS, Link managers, Photo Uploaders etc. With my limited art/fireworks skills I could never make anything that looked right :P. The other day I found a great website for icons. There are a ton of them and they look really nice.

Check them out : FAMFAMFAM