Last week a colleague at work was interrupted by Windows asking him to activate his copy and verify his license details. It looked real and was certainly very professionally done, however there was something not quite right about it. The first screen very carefully tells you that your copy of Windows XP has been activated […]
In line with Adobes push to make things more ECMA Script compliant I noticed today that you can put in a line using && for AND in ColdFusion 8 tag syntax as follows: Original Syntax: ColdFusion 8: You can use any of the following: and in cfscript I spotted this in the long list of […]
I find this really useful sometimes. for example when we did the Geocoding of Australian Postcodes I chucked in a sleep thread to the loop so that we wouldn’t hammer google and get banned from running any more geocoding requests. This uses the java.lang.Thread method to pause or sleep the currently running thread. So first […]
Today we were trying to join 2 fields from different tables with a left outer join. This means that if there is nothing in the joining table the rows are returned as null. By default SQL wont give you a result in the joining request. Lets have an example. You want to get categories and […]
DeveloperCircuit.com is a new job site that is looking to put a spin on the way developers look for jobs. Seek and CareerOne in Australia are the big players, and when you post a job advert on there, you get all sort of people applying, some who dont even have the skills you require. The […]
I read with great interest this morning that Mark Drew has released a plugin for CFEclipse that helps you out if you work with ModelGlue, Fusebox, or Mach-II. Other frameworks can be added too, like Transfer ORM, because the whole system is XML driven. This is HUGE! It looks like some features are: Automagically determining […]
I have been looking for an elegant solution for this for a while, one that doesnt have limitations like forcing you to have fixed width divs because thats the size of the background image. Of course in the old days we did this with an extra table row but that was just painful. I am […]
Here is a discovery that I came across recently while working on a clients mass mail system. I upgraded to Outlook 2007, and being the first to do so in the office have been discovering some of the cool new features. And it was all very cool until close to the clients deadline and I […]
Scary stuff. However its easy to fix. For example if we are using databaseuser01 to access this database simply run this has something to do with SQL enforcing a password policy on the user, however I don’t know the details.
