The Warp - ColdFusion

BlogCFC: Removing lastXDays feature

Sat, 02 May 2009 18:44:00 -0700

I am one of those people that doesn't get to blog all the time on their primary blog... :) I have a few other blogs and it seems that this one gets neglected from time to time. That always leaves my blog with the "Sorry there are no blog entries" message on my homepage. I got tired of seeing that today and found this older article about removing the lastXDays feature on BlogCFC. http://www.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/16/BlogCFC-Removing-lastXDays-feature

Getting paid for interviews...

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:40:00 -0700

I like almost everyone out there get a lot of calls for interviews from headhunters, etc. They get paid to find someone for the right job, so why isn't that spread around? Why don't I get paid to go on an interview? My time is as just as valuable (if not more) than theirs. Why should I take time off work and go on an interview? Sure the prospect of a new job is in there for me, but in all reality I should be compensated for my time. I think I am going to setup a new wishlist on Amazon for recruiters and headhunters. Send me something off that list and I will go on an interview... Not saying that I would take the position, but it never hurts to listen and keep your ears open... http://www.notchup.com/ I found this website notchup.com after I originally posted this article. It is exactly what I am talking about. Here is how they describe themselves: NotchUp is for you if
you're happy at your job
you're good at what you do
you're not looking for a new job Great concept and Great site!

Easy Dynamic Google Sitemap with ColdFusion

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:39:00 -0700

Have you ever wanted to have your google sitemap updated on the fly based on your postings or other data? This is a simple but effective example:



select * from astores_names



  
    
      
       http://www.thewarp.org/blog/store.cfm?site=#store_name#
       daily
       0.8
       
    
  



#ToString(mydoc)#

An example can be seen here: http://www.thewarp.org/store_xml.cfm

Adobe MAX -- Problems with the United Way Volunteer Site

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:58:00 -0700

Ben Forta and Scott Fegette got together on the first day of the show and did a cool demonstartion of ColdFusion. They rebuilt the volunteer site for the United Way. It looks great, but appears to have some problems in FF. The main thing that I notice when I go there in FF is: It even looks this way after you close the little white window... I think in all the rush they didn't do some good old QA on the site first... Good site other than that though... http://volunteer.unitedway.org/ http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/1/MAX-2007-Day-One-Wrap-Up

Adobe MAX Chicago is SOLD OUT!!

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:39:00 -0700

Wow. This is a first I think. A friend of mine went to sign up to go yesterday and found out that MAX is Sold Out. I knew it was a record, but wow... http://blog.adobemax2007.com/2007/09/adobe-max-2007-north-america-is-sold.html

Installing ColdFusion 8 Eclipse Extensions

Wed, 30 May 2007 11:20:00 -0700

The ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse include RDS panels, a Services Browser panel, a CF Log Viewer, RDS support, help, wizards, and of course the interactive debugger. These extensions are available for download along with ColdFusion 8 and will be distributed with the product when it ships. http://eclipse.sys-con.com/read/382377.htm

Adobe's ColdFusion warms to .Net

Wed, 30 May 2007 09:42:00 -0700

Adobe Systems Inc.'s ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. A public beta of ColdFusion 8, is to be offered starting today. The general release is set for mid-year. Version 8 is the first Adobe-branded release of the former Macromedia technology. [More]

Report says that 90% of businesses plan to have RIA's.

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:29:00 -0700

One Stop Click News has a story on RIA's and a survey done by Scene 7. I guess this only goes to show that the use of RIA's will continue to expand. "Around 90 per cent of retailers, catalogers and commerce sites surveyed by Scene7, the rich application provider, planned to enhance their customer's experiences by implementing rich internet applications. Around 78 per cent of respondents wanted consumers to be able to zoom in on product pictures, 76 per cent required visual configurators and 75 per cent of companies planned colour swatching and colouring." http://www.onestopclick.com/news/Rich-internet-applications-planned-by-90-per-cent-of-businesses_18029593.html

Updating Blog to Current version of BlogCFC

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:53:00 -0700

You may see some screwy looking pages during this update, including the ugly orange css colors until I have a chance to update the css. So far so good though on the update. I have already done all my database changes, now I just have to swap the directories and cross my fingers.... :) Update: Just did the directory swap. If anyone sees a problem, let me know. Now I have to get my adsense and everything else working again... :(

Finally going to take the plunge and upgrade...

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:25:00 -0700

I am planning on starting the upgrade to the most recent version of Ray Camden's Blog CFC. I think it may take a little bit of tweaking though to get it up to the current version. I think I am still on Blog CFC 3.x, so if anyone has any tips they will be greatly appreciated. Last time I updated was a while back and I ended up wiping out my SQL Server database.

Standalone ColdFusion...

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:50:00 -0700

I wonder if anyone else has ever thought, hey it would be nice to be able to write a ColdFusion App, compile the code on your machine and have a standalone app that didn't require a ColdFusion server. I really wish that Macromedia would create something like this. There could even be a browser plugin that sits on the users machine, much like Flash has a player that sits on a users machine. In reality they may be positioning Flash for this more and more. I just think it would be nice to have the ability to take a ColdFusion app, compile it, and put it on lets say a CD. Let me know what you think...

Using RSS XML in Flash - Part 1

Wed, 04 May 2005 14:10:00 -0700

Want to use RSS XML in flash from another website? Having problems with the fact that flash will only allow you to pull in XML from your own domain? Try this code out if you have Cold Fusion...

<cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "Yes">


<cfset dataURL="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech"/>

<cfhttp url="#dataURL#" method="get" redirect="yes" timeout="10"/>

<cfheader name = "Content-type" value = "#cfhttp.mimeType#">

<cfoutput>
#cfhttp.fileContent#
</cfoutput>

</cfprocessingdirective>

Then, just treat this CFM page as if it was an XML file. Link to Part 2 of the article - This part deals with the ActionScript.