I couldn’t find this easily with TEH GOOGLE so I present to you here, a complete list of the built-in properties that you can access using Ant. If you don’t know what Ant is and you’re a developer, then you probably don’t use deployment scripts and should be whipped. Check out Jim Priest’s [...]

I needed to find where I was at in a table so I could report back the row and cell position for another function. There aren’t any easy-to-find answers from the Google so I set about doing my standard Javascript DOM exploration:
for (var ii in this)
console.info(” ii = ” + ii);
I explore [...]

A really interesting thread on CFGURU today discussing how to minimize the impact of clients that don’t accept cookies from rapidly creating “phantom” sessions that eat up memory. Because the client doesn’t accept a cookie, each request will appear to be a new client and ColdFusion will generate a new session along with any [...]

Christian and I collaborated the other day on a new feature for the excellent jQuery plugin, TableSorter. I can only take credit for the idea as Christian made the magic happen. This addition makes it now possible to sort any content, whether it be a form field, inside markup, etc.
The Situation
For simple data [...]

I love crazy long titles that make highly qualified claims. So as the title says, this is, in my humble opinion, the best available regular expression for ColdFusion developers who validate email addresses of everyday English-speaking users. Here is what I used to use, from cflib.org. This one is good because the [...]

While I’m not a designer, I do need to pop open Photoshop on a regular basis and save off graphics or make small changes. I often need to create a rounded corner rectangle when processing customer logos for theming and I never remember how to do it quickly. This tutorial shows the best [...]

I have been tempted, and even used successfully, the Transfer.clone() method to duplicate an existing Transfer object. But Mr. Corfield told me today that I was insane for relying on such a thing which is apparently well documented. So I began looking for another way to easily duplicate a transfer object.
Why I [...]

Is it possible to get permission to build and release a Live CD that includes a default ColdFusion Developer edition install on it? Or a VMWare image?
This would open a lot of possibilities for evangelizing and testing.

If you’re using my actionpack for search-engine safe URLs for Model-Glue, you may have noticed that appending values with a <result> to a redirected event uses the normal ?var=value syntax.
This unfortunately can’t be fixed by an external modification like my actionpack however the needed modification to the core is extremely tiny so I have made [...]

Heard via friends inside that Yahoo! is cutting loose lots of people today as speculated in the news recently. People are being called into conference rooms and dismissed. Apparently the severance package pays out through May so it’s a relatively “soft” landing. Tough times for the Y.