Thursday, January 19, 2012

dynamically get url or form parameters and set variables or query strings for cflayout calls, ajax binds, iframe or cfincludes, links or in-page use.

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I have some 'main' pages which use cflayout to actually hold LOTS of pages. Some are content 'in' the main page inside the c...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Validate Amazon URL in ColdFusion

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All my images are on Amazon S3. Some of my records don't have images there -- or they do, but they don't have thumbnails. In listing...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

SMF, Simple Portal, and Cross-Domain Home Pages

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SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is great software. One of the mods called Simple Portal is equally cool (if less complex probably). Another mod ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Multiple Records Insert (cfloop)

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I was asked about this as a comment on a previous post on sortable lists. It used to be a question for me too so I thought I'd post it u...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Coldfusion RSS Atom Feed: CFML for Making, Creating, Generating, Valid RSS

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One of the things about 'helpful blogs' that show you code is that sometimes, they show you little snippets of code. You have to bas...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Date Loops for a ROTA

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As part of the ROTA application I had to build a very simple way for a user to say, "Starting on this date, assign something weekly for...

ROTA, Dynamic Variables and Nested Loops

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Fresh from the land of nobody-can-help-me-I'm-doomed, I discovered (as usual) that I was trying to make something a lot harder than it n...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Simple Machines Forum SMF Lessons

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Trivia. Who knows I may need this again someday. V 2.0 Beta 4 Reported bug: display in 'attachment max size'. 0 is supposed to be un...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Creative Error Messages

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My brain is frying. While trying to figure out a bug in Taskerbot -- which mysteriously has assigned just SOME tasks of SOME viewers SOMEtim...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

CF is Less Girly

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OK so the girls can sue me, but I think this image a couple folks use as sig blocks on a forum I frequent is just HILARIOUS. Go Arnold!
Monday, August 18, 2008

Drag & Drop Sortable Lists

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I'm working on the ROTA module of Taskerbot now, which I've started and stopped at least three times. Par for the course, I've m...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Little Import Utility

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Me and a friend were talking about setting up Remote Viewing tasks as an experiment, using a number, words, etc. to see if we would get symb...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Cleaning up the Display

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CFGRID, combined with CFLAYOUT (tabbed variant) and CFMENU (simple, not dropdown, as the dropdown does not play well with the CFGRID where t...

Hacking SQL to Save CFGRID: LEN, CHARINDEX, Filename parsing

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OK, so then I ran into the same problem I had that I blogged about previously, which is this: getting a full link, image, with unique record...

Hacking SQL to Save CFGRID: CASE functions

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OK, now that I'm using CFGRID that means I can't use all the simple logic that CFML is so famous for making easy. The irony of this ...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

CFGRID and TEXT WRAP, hover row color and HEADER row style

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You would think text wrap would be a parameter on the tag itself. It took me quite some searching to find the answer to that one. There is a...
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Hacking SQL to Save CFGRID: Image as column value, HREF link with RECORD ID

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This is only part of solving a larger problem. The problem is using the HREF on CFGRID underlines every damn thing and I couldn't figure...
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Hacking SQL to Save CFGRID: Date Format

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In the HTML format CFGRID, my date "mask" formatting, using the CF documentation, didn't seem to work at all. I don't know...
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CFGRID and CFC Binding How To

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I avoided using a CFC binding initially because I didn't grok how and, before I knew that my route made pagination impossible, a query i...
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CGRID and Auto Pagination

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Everyone raved about how cool it was that ColdFusion's CFGRID tag automatically would do the pagination for you. All the little examples...

The Blog

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Yes. I know this is a canned design theme and I don't care to spend the time making one pretty like my other five blogs on other topics....