Recently I set up a SubVersion server for my company, and with all good things comes some pain. Authentication, compatibility of components, backup, training, hardware are some of the things you have to take in to account. Its not an easy thing to do, setting up I find takes a few days and maintenance is […]
Are you thinking about starting to use Source control such as SVN or CVS for your company or work? Your first decision is SVN or CVS – let me help, SubVersion. Plenty of other people discuss why, so go find their articles. But should you do it yourself? Or should you go find someone to […]
I have seen many different ways of doing this, but to my knowledge this is the most accurate way. Using SQL you can have your database return the distance between 2 sets of Lat and Long points, and using some math functions also take into account the curvature of the earth. Admittedly if you are […]
Since we went through and geocoded all of the Australian postcodes and suburbs we have found ourselves finding all sorts of uses for it, and have been madly going through projects and using this data. We have the data in our master code database, and in order to make use of it in a clients […]
I have all of my photos over on Flickr and wanted a small blogCFC pod on the right side to display the most recent uploads. Here is how I did it. First create a new pod within blogcfc, this is easily done by going to the /tags/layout.cfm and adding a line in amongst the other […]
I have been working a lot with Java and in particular the svnkit java API for SubVersion, this was all started with the cfdiff project from Rick Osborne. One of the things that has had me troubled for a while is viewing the contents of a file at a particular revision. The SVNKit returns a […]
We recently had a compatibility issue with a design that didnt quite fit in Safari. Example, lets assume you have 2 divs inside a container. This will have the right div flush against the left with no gap between. This is because browsers except Safari assume the container takes up 100% of the space it […]
Sometimes its necessary to insert a null value into a column in a database. For example if the length of a string is blank, you may prefer null rather than a blank entry. Here is one way to achieve this without cfqueryparam: Here is another way with the cfqueryparam tag Both are a bit messy […]
I spent the last days of last week at MX:DU – the Macromedia Developers Conference for Australia and Pacific. It was put on and organised by Daemon – who did an awesome job. We went to a whole load of sessions and learnt some very cool (nerdy) things. Macromedia have been working very hard recently […]
