I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
Another of ColdFusion 8’s new tag features is the cfthread tag. Previously I showed you how to sleep a thread using Java and ColdFusion MX for version 6 and 7. Now the Adobe team have come up with a cfthread tag, that among other things allows you to sleep a thread: This will set the […]
I have recently signed up to both of these sites, for different reasons, but have been stunned when my chosen user name of length has been accepted on both sites. I would have thought that sites like this, with so many users, someone would have claimed that username long ago. My Technorati Profile and my […]
I have done a quick direct comparison of quality between ColdFusion 8 cfimage tag and the cfx_imagecr3 tag from Efflare. This test is a simple loop from 10% to 100% and resizes the original image with each tag for each scale. And here are the results at 60%. Can you pick the difference? Left hand […]
Over on this thread a comment has been left remarking that messages cannot be sent over multiple browser sessions even though the from and to addresses are the same. “If I close the ColdFusion client and reopen it I can send messages with no problems, but cannot receive them.” This is caused by IM clients […]
Over on this thread a comment has been left remarking that Exodus seems to be the only IM client that works with the smack API implementation in ColdFusion. My research was a bit long so I thought I would respond in a blog entry rather than the comments. 1. “Now I am having trouble sending […]
Today I have started work on using the Java library SMACK API to concoct a web based chat client for our support teams to chat with clients on our sites. Its pretty easy to use, and if you are running ColdFusion MX7.x then you dont even need to download the Smack API as the XMPP […]
We are starting to work on a live help desk chat application where authenticated and logged in users can talk to our support and sales teams via a web based instant messenger. Because this will be for a private application we will need to use a private instant messaging server, i.e. one that Joe Public […]
With so many extensions out there and so little time to choose them I thought I would share the ones I have installed and use all the time. FireBug Simply a must have for any web developer, allows you to inspect the webpage, its elements, css, script, downloads size and speed, edit css, script and […]
