2003-06-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

A Must have Mozilla ExtensionPNH toolbar

2003-06-10T06:37:00.000-07:00

Nice DHTML libraries JavaScript: DHTML API, Drag & Drop for Images and Layers Javascript drawing library

2003-04-17T07:42:00.000-07:00

Forcing a file downloadEveryone should know how to use cfcontent to get ColdFusion to dish up a file. However, making the browser download it is often precarious. Many browsers have settings that tell them exactly how to handle a particular file. This is due to their mime-types. Well, it was suggested earlier today, that to make the browser download a file, set the mime-type: "application/

2003-04-12T09:41:00.000-07:00

Some 'nifty' stuff This site has some cool stuff: http://www.webweaver.org/dan/css/ I personally like the label on a checkmark makes the label clickable as well.

2003-04-09T16:13:00.000-07:00

First (n-1) words in a stringThis nifty little snippet will grab the first (n-1) words from a string and output them:

2003-02-02T11:48:00.000-08:00

CSS designsThis site as a list of 16 common site layouts and includes the bare CSS for each, Little Boxes

2003-02-02T05:56:00.000-08:00

Inlined listsPer djuggler's request, I figured out two ways to show inlined lists. this is

choice1
choice 2
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this is fun This is hardly a perfect

2003-01-30T12:39:00.000-08:00

Looping over lists I've discussed it before, but I'll do it again for giggles. Lists are not the most efficient data structure. They, more often then not, are better used if they are first converted to arrays. However, sometimes its just better to use them and get them out of the way, like in the case of forms. Here's a faster way, in script to loop through a list: tempList =

2003-01-30T12:33:00.000-08:00

CFC's done a better wayOne of the most annoying things about CFC's is their inability to handle errors very well. In fact, a calling page may never realize an error was generated at all. However, that does not mean you have to live with it. In fact, I propose that every method within a CFC be written only to return a structure. That structure contains three (perhaps more in the future)

2003-01-30T12:07:00.000-08:00

Beer's rules for CSS versus Tables If it's part of the presentation, then there's no question: use CSS ** do not go on ** If you are unsure of where to place , , or tags, you're probably not dealing with a table If it looks like a table, make it a table. (i.e. does tabular layout really matter?)

2003-01-11T08:40:00.000-08:00

Right-click - Command prompt hereCmdhere.inf: Command Prompt Here This shell extension adds a CMD Prompt Here command to the context menu that is available when you right-click in the Folders (left) pane of Windows Explorer. Selecting this option from the context menu creates a new command-prompt session with the same path as that of the object that is right-clicked.

2003-01-04T13:20:00.000-08:00

CFMX Sleep...I found this while I was actually looking for something else, ColdFusion, Java, and Web Development Blog About to sleep for 5 seconds... Done sleeping.

2002-12-12T13:58:00.000-08:00

Shameless Promotion A shameless ColdFusion site promotion, Book a hotel in Europe and the United Kingdom.

2002-10-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

Dereferencing Queries by structures and arraysI recently came across an instance when I really wanted to return a single row from a query. It made things just look nicer when it was wrapped up in a CFComponent. So, to make it dynamic, I took advantage of the fact that I could get the column list from the original query (literally query.columnlist), and that I could use a query's array property

2002-10-07T10:58:00.000-07:00

CFScript Looping Faster than CFLOOP in CFMX I did a test on my MX server, and unlike previous versions, CFMX's CFSCRIPT loop actually kicks 's butt in performance. I ran the following code: c = GetTickCount(); for (i = 1; i LTE 10000; i = i+1) ; d = GetTickCount(); <

2002-10-07T08:20:00.000-07:00

Undocumented CFMX codeColdFusion MX Un-Documentation - undocumented features in ColdFusion MX ColdFusion's Move to java has opened up a host of new possibilities, several of these possibilities are not documented. Because all variables in ColdFusion are now Java Objects, we can use Java Reflection to find out hidden methods or functions.

2002-10-05T13:28:00.000-07:00

Using Flash Remoting with Googleflash Remoting with Google #include "NetServices.as" #include "NetDebug.as" //settings for google query var params = new Object(); params.key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; //enter your own google key here params.q = "Macromedia MX"; //this is the search term //the rest are required, but you can leave them at their defaults params.start = 0; params.maxResults =

2002-09-19T06:29:00.000-07:00

Really Good Javascript Browser DetectionThis page has a very thorough browser detection script.Determining Browser Type and Version with JavaScript // convert all characters to lowercase to simplify testing var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); // *** BROWSER VERSION *** // Note: On IE5, these return 4, so use is_ie5up to detect IE5. var is_major = parseInt(

2002-08-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

ColdFusion Structure to XMLThere isn't a very good way to turn a structure into its xml equivalent. So I wrote a simple, recursive UDF to do it. Simply pass this function the structure and whether or not you want the header information included. This is a highly modified version of a UDF found on CFLIB that only allowed basic structures: // This is a recursive function function

2002-07-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Grabbing the Text Between to StringsI was looking for a simple way to grab all the text between two tags (in the case it was ). And because this was a fairly simple task, wasting execution time on REGEX was unnecessary. And, instead of writing a closed function to work with only one kind of tag, I made it a general function that will return the contents between any two strings (not

2002-07-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

Even More Javascript: List to DropDown OptionsThis little snippet is handy for two reasons: 1) It shows you formally how to take a list and create options for your dropdown 2) It shows a very good way to loop over lists in Javascript So, enough jibber-jabber, here's the code:

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