Congratulations to the Phillies and to the Rays
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1/17/2011I remember when Mitch Williams blew the 93' World Series for the Phillies. This occured 5 years before the 'Devil Rays' threw there first Pitch. I was at the Rays game 2 of the 98 season when the Rays...
Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays
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1/17/2011Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays on their ALCS pennant win yesterday. I have been a fan of the Rays since their inaugural season in 1998\\. After nine seasons of being in the baseball basement, a...
Consuming ColdFusion Web Services in Microsoft InfoPath
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1/17/2011I have been using Microsoft Office InfoPath in some recent projects. One of the nice features of InfoPath is the ability to consume SOAP based web services. This can be used to pre-populate fields in ...
Converting Image files in InfoPath to gifs once submitted
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1/17/2011I have been developing a lot of windows workflows and web services in .NET recently. I came across a need to convert a WMF file (Windows Meta File) into a gif file. SQL Server Reporting Services can n...
Converting WMF files to Gif files in ColdFusion 8 using the .NET interop
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1/17/2011Todd over at cfsilence.com had a a question about one of my recent blog posts on converting WMF files to GIF files. I gave an example of how to do this in .NET, but how do you leverage ColdFusion's .N...
Convincing Your Boss to Get You a Mac for Development
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1/17/2011I was in San Jose last week for the managers summit. While I was out there I noticed that a lot of the developers use Macs. I have been a Mac user since 1990, and I have a G5 for my home machine. I am...
Cool SQL Server Maintenance scripts
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1/17/2011Thanks to Buck Woody for pasing along \link\ to me. There are some goodies in that post....
Couple of ColdFusion positions open in Tampa Bay area
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1/17/2011My former employer, Jagged Peak is looking for a couple of ColdFusion developers in the Tampa Bay area. Here is their post; Immediate opening for full time, permanent Web Application programmer in Tam...
NetBeans 5.0, cross platform development and Web services
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1/17/2011One of the slogans for Java is write once, run everywhere. What that really means is write once, test everywhere. I have been writting some web service based API examples in a couple of different envi...
CS3 released today
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1/17/2011Adobe started shipping Creative Suite 3 today. This is the first version that supports Intel based Macintosh systems. So all of the people who have been whining that Photoshop had to run in emulation ...
Damon Cooper on new CFMX 7.0.1 features
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1/17/2011Macromedia has a good overview of the new features in CFMX 7.0.1\\. This \article\ covers many of the new features, including CFC Proxy, RTF output and updated web services. I can not wait to start pl...
Damon Cooper posts new version of CFThread and CFJoin tags
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1/17/2011Damon Cooper has posted \new versions\ of the CFThread and CFJoin tags developed by Rupesh Kumar. These tags are proof of concept tags, so not for production use yet. I hope they add this into ColdFus...
Dave Ross presentation on ColdSpring
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1/17/2011I went to Dave Ross's presentation on ColdSpring at CFUNITED. It was an extremely informative presentation on the ColdSpring frame work that Dave developed. ColdSpring is based on the Java Spring fram...
Debugging web service calls with a TCP monitor
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1/17/2011I just discovered a really neat tool for debugging web services. There is a sniffer application that will reroute TCP requests that come with every version of ColdFusion MX. In the JRun\_Root\\bin dir...
Deleting Data from a Database, Just don't do it
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1/17/2011I recently heard about a company that because they deleted what they thought was lookup data in a table ran into all kinds of relational issues with data in other tables that referenced that lookup ta...
Dell selling AMD processors?
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1/17/2011I saw a CNET article today that Dell was selling some individual AMD processors, as if Dell was testing the waters. They still do not sell PCs with AMD processors, but they may be looking to change th...
Developing for the Apple iPad
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1/17/2011Right now I only have one application on the Apple App Store, but I am planning on releasing more applications. According to Apple, iPhone applications will run unmodified on the iPad. Apple released ...
Does ColdFusion need 64 bit Support? Short answer: Yes!
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1/17/2011Does ColdFusion need 64 bit support? The short answer to this question is yes, but it really depends on the ROI if Adobe charges more for the 64 bit version. My company is currently in the process of ...
DogYearsToHumanYears function found in our code
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1/17/2011Years and years ago, when I was still using ColdFusion 5, I decided to contribute an UDF to the \cflib.org\ web site. The function I wrote converts actual years to dog years. /\\ \* This UDF translat...
DOM vs. SAX XML parsers
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1/17/2011I was recently told by a co-worker that you should never use DOM based XML parsers to load XML data into a application or database. DOM is extremely bad in JAVA for processing large XML documents, mai...