I am currently at WebDU 2006 – its the premier conference Down Under for Adobe (once Macromedia) and web based developers in the the Rich Application and Web Development spaces. Its been a great start so far with a great intro by Mike Chambers of Adobe to showcase some of the cool new stuff coming […]
Call me a nerd, but I just made it in to the top 15 in the world on the website www.experts-exchange.com for the ColdFusion Topic Area. If you click on the link and look for the box of Top 15 you can see mmc98dl1 in the list (thats me!) I am a long way behind […]
I recently took a voyage of discovery to see how much you could do with the new and improved cfchart. Its really good, with some great features and funky animations, lots of control over labels and axis and a range of interesting charts. Macromedia LiveDocs cfchart. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough. The engine Macromedia licensed […]
I was hard pressed to find a fix for the issue that occurs in this ColdFusion Custom Tag cf_twoSelectsRelated originally by Nate Weiss. When you use the emptyText1 and emptyText2 attributes together and want to preselect values the second box wont fill out the values required. I knocked up a bit of javascript you can […]
I just returned from the UK having been over on some family business. Being 6’5″ and not very rich I have to fly economy and hope that the nice check in people will allocate me a decent seat in a bulk head or exit row so I dont end up with some disfigurment after 13 […]
We had a job sent in by email today: Dear Service Desk, My mouse is really slow. It takes 2 clicks to start something or highlight something, etc, etc. I checked out the mouse function in control panel but it still didn’t make a difference. Thankyou.
East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston and in association with Vodafone’s annual life savers award. The idea is that you store the word ” I C E ” in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter […]
If you havent heard already Firefox is taking the world by storm as the new Internet Browser to rival Internet Explorer. Developed by Mozilla – who claim that “Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser.” I have now been using firefox for at least 6 months […]
So you have several apps on several servers, each of them load balanced and clustered using ColdFusions cool new Clustering and load balancing. But what if you need to know which of the CF instances is handling a particular request, what if you want to actually see the Round Robin happening? I found a nifty […]
