My First CfWheels App - MyRides
For some time now I've wanted to build a new web application from scratch using one of the many frameworks available for ColdFusion so that I could get a better feel for MVC frameworks in general as...
View ArticleBreakdown of MyRides - a CfWheels app for displaying MyTracks data
I mentioned in a previous post that I want to do a series of posts that breakdown and explain the CfWheels app that I'm working on that I'm calling MyRides. The app allows me to collect the data from...
View ArticleBreakdown of the MyRides homepage
My blog post this evening will talk about the current homepage of my MyRides application that I am working on using CfWheels. The homepage currently shows some statistics about all of my rides as a...
View ArticleMango Blog Update 1.5 and enabling manage system permissions
While upgrading my Mango blog installations this evening to the new 1.5 version I ran into a minor stumbling block. The first installation ran perfectly from the administrator, but the other instance...
View ArticleUsing jQuery to remove select options
For times when you would like to remove select options based on the selected option in a different select, jQuery allows a simple option. In my example, I have a select control that the user uses to...
View ArticleGoogle Font Directory
Taking a look at the Google Font Api has been on my to do list for some time now. I took the time the other night to play around with the fonts a little on one of my projects. Thefont directory is an...
View ArticleTop Five Scripting languages on the JVM.
InfoWorld published an article today titled, "Top five scripting languages on the JVM" and I thought some might be interested. They mention ColdFusion near the beginning, though they call it Cold...
View ArticleCF 9.0.1 upgrade woes
When the ColdFusion 9.0.1 upgrade was released, I noticed a few blog and forum posts mentioning issues. I also noticed many people reporting no problems at all, so I decided to wait for a little while....
View ArticleSetting session cookies to have the httpOnly attribute with ColdFusion 9.0.1
For a site that falls under PCI compliance scans you will need to have session cookies that have the httpOnly attribute set. With the release of the ColdFusion 9.0.1 release it is now much easier to...
View ArticleValidate "numeric" for cfinput does not work with $
I noticed a strange behavior with ColdFusion 9 and maybe earlier versions where using the validate attribute set to numeric will not show an error with a $ in the input. All three validations, onBlur,...
View ArticleMissing thumbnail images when attaching links to facebook posts
I have a Facebook page for my photography and often post links to new galleries that I add to my site on the wall. Recently, when I would attach a link it would no longer add a thumbnail image. I...
View ArticleFacebook Wall JQuery - display a wall on an external site
The Facebook Wall JQuery plugin by Neosmart makes it super easy to display the wall of a facebook account on a website. An interesting way to show non facebook users the community of people discussing...
View ArticleCreating a multi file image uploader with ColdFusion and Uploadify
For some time I have wanted to update the image upload system I have on my photography website. I made it years ago and it only allowed me to upload a single image at a time. For each image the system...
View ArticleURL rewriting for Mango Blog with IIS 7.5 and Apache 2.2
I recently set up url rewriting for Mango Blog on both IIS 7.5 and Apache 2.2. I followed the excellent guide by Adam Tuttle, but experienced a few issues along the way, so I decided to add a post that...
View ArticleColdFISH Mango Blog plugin
I've always wanted to use ColdFISH as a code syntax highlighter in Mango Blog after viewing other blogs running on BlogCFC. When I noticed Jason Delmore'spost announcing ColdFISH 3.1 I inquired about a...
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