I've updated the site to replace the Mango built in commenting system with Disqus. Since Disqus is well used, it seemed like it might be a more ideal mechanism versus dealing with moderation and having to deal with captchas and stuff of the old system. Hopefully it means more/easier commenting […]
Just over a year ago I also mentioned that in our shop, we will be transitioning away from ColdFusion. During that time frame, we haven't had any actual new development, mostly working on updates to existing sites, so the transition hasn't really started yet. However, after we deal with one more […]
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 […]
You may recall that back in February I posted about some issues we were having with creating spreadsheets using CFSPREADSHEET and formatting not applying when dealing with multiple sheets. Apparently this is only an issue when building a multi-sheet workbook using ColdFusion tags! You see, in the same application that we […]
It's been a little while since I've last posted so I thought I'd do a bit of an update post, in case anyone follows this blog on a regular basis and wondered why hadn't posted in a while. I haven't really mentioned it here as much as I do on […]
I was finally required to retire my beloved Dell Latitude E6500 at work and replace him with an HP EliteBook Folio 9470m, downgrading from a 15.6" screen to a dinky little 14" (and having to get up my Office 03 for the aggrevation that is 2010 – I HATE the […]
On September 3rd, Peter Farrell announced that the team behind the Mach-II ColdFusion framework (himself, Matt Williams and Kurt Wiersma) will no longer be working on or supporting the framework. With a 10 year run, those who initially made it and kept going have much to be proud of. When […]
While working on a site recently, I wanted to pull some data from an RSS feed to load into a page. A pretty simple thing to do, thanks to ColdFusion's lovely CFFEED tag. I mean what more can you ask for – one line of code turns any RSS feed […]
So here's a fun little gotcha that I ran into today. One of my legacy apps, one of the first ones I built when I came to work at my current job, has graduated away from being in-house app to running on a third-party hosted e-commerce platform. As part of […]
For one of our current projects, we're building a "contact list" feature, i.e. a way for users to pull up lists of persons in the system. They have a choice of stock lists and can build their own custom lists. I might try to blackm persuade my partner to do […]