Since it’s been five months since my last post on the recode, thanks to mostly focusing on work stuff, I figured it was a good time to do a status check and see where things stand. First, as I mentioned awhile back, I flipped my main host. While An Eclectic […]
Way back in 2013, I posted about using ColdFusion to pull data from an iTunes-capable RSS and CFFEED’s funkiness with it. For that post, I just put the bit of code that took the RSS contents and put it into a DB. It was a script for a client, that […]
This will hopefully be the start of a series of posts on my latest personal web project, updating my personal website An Eclectic World. This will be a big update, including: Flipping from ColdFusion with the Mach-II framework to PHP with Zend Framework 2 Flipping the database from PostgreSQL to […]
With our Mach-II apps, I had a series of RegEx Search/Replaces in Dreamweaver that let me quickly turn a list of variables into the various basic components of a bean, gateway, function arguments, etc. For example, this one does all the properties in a bean. So if I had a variable […]
Bet you thought I forgot about this series, eh? 🙂 Got caught up dealing with the SOAP stuff – that was simple to build with Zend but ended up not working with the legacy system we were working with so had to redo it to break out of Zend all together […]
I didn't forget about this set of posts, promise! Taking a break from the PHP stuff, I'm back with part 2 – replacing an Ajax-driven CFGRID display with a dataTables one. You might be asking, well why would I even want to use an Ajax-driven table versus just doing a regular HTML table […]
So I've now gone through the tutorial and a few chapters of the Beginning PHP5 book. As I'd imagine most of you can understand, I'm ready to do some "real" coding!! Time to do something more hands on, so I decided to take a fairly simple bit of ColdFusion code and […]
If you follow a lot of ColdFusion blogs, you’ve probably seen the on-going movement to get CF developers to drop the use of the hideous UI elements that are part of ColdFusion, culminating in the launch of ColdFusion UI the Right Way. At one time they were “useful” for folks […]
When I decided to switch over to using Disqus as the commenting system for this site, I found very little info on how to implement it within Mango Blog. Someone made a request for a plug in many years ago, but no one answered. Disqus's own documentation is "okay" but […]
This was apparently our month for Excel creation fun. Last week, on top of the whole maximum width issue, we've been struggling with some performance issues. In particular, we have a set of eight spreadsheets that we have to run every 24 hours. They all have the same 24 columns […]