I received a surprise email today from a developer working on ColdFusion 8. He is working on some new cool features, which I will keep private. He talked to CF guru Ben Forta regarding the new feature and Ben referred him to me! Ben Forta recommended me! Me! This developer sent me a draft of… Continue reading Am I a ColdFusion guru now?
Category: ColdFusion
MySQL character set for ISO-8859-1
Our web server’s character set is ISO-8859-1. This has caused some problems when persons input accented characters or other non-ASCII characters into our database. Well, actually the problems occurred when the information was parsed to a webpage. I’ve tried fixing this several times, but could not figure out how to set the character set on… Continue reading MySQL character set for ISO-8859-1
RSS and ColdFusion
RSS is rapidly becoming a popular format for providing content. It allows users to subscribe to bits of information, so they can be notified when new information has been posted. I’ve been tossing around the idea of implementing RSS at work lately, and wanted to do it with ColdFusion. I finally buckled down and put… Continue reading RSS and ColdFusion
AJAX and ColdFusion
AJAX seems to be all the rage recently, what with all the hype behind GMail, Google Maps, flickr, and the like. I’ve been wanting to dabble in it to test out the waters before I implemented anything major. Cameron Adams recently published an AJAX article over at SitePoint, and it sold me on giving it… Continue reading AJAX and ColdFusion
Thumbnail Horizontal Scroller
I am in the middle of redesigning an image gallery and I wanted to create a navigational tool to make browsing the images easier. Until now, it was simply a pop-up window with hard coded next and previous buttons. I started by creating a ColdFusion page that would pull the country value and picture number… Continue reading Thumbnail Horizontal Scroller
Database Integration with Flash
Dennis’ solution was exactly what I needed. Well, actually, not quite what I needed. His solution worked for getting the data from the database and importing it to Flash. That was the biggest hurdle. What it did not do was allow for importing separate records. So I modified it.
Creating VCS Files in ColdFusion
One thing I have been trying for months to do on the Faculty of Management website is to create VCS files on the fly. VCS files are what Outlook and other calendaring software use to pass calendar items between each other. When I added an event to our database with ColdFusion, I wanted it to create a VCS file that the user could then download to his/her calendar.