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Bluemini on fluid/responsive grid

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:01 +0000

<p>Last night I launched my first attempt at a fluid/responsive grid layout for Bluemini.com. Using CSS3 media queries to apply different styles based on client width and a fallback basic fluid design for IE8 and lower that don't support CSS3, the outcome is very acceptable. I chose to only support ...

Query time bar chart in CF debug

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:15:01 +0000

<p>One of the most useful (although not necessarily beautiful) parts of ColdFusion's toolset it the debug feature. This allows you to view the timings for all the parts that contribute to the final rendering of a page. It shows you a break down of all the queries that were run; their execution time,...

Update: http POSTs in ColdFusion and Apache Common

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:50:02 +0000

<p>I mentioned in this post that I had been having issues with cfhttp and uploading files. Well, the solution that I proposed in that post used a String object, into which the file contents were read, before assembling the respon...

Go California - On track to ban styrofoam

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:45:11 +0000

I lived in California for two years, and whilst it didn't turn out to be the 'place for me' I was always impressed by their leadership on environmental issues. I'm sure these changes weren't always for altruistic ends, but hey, it made things a little better for the ordinary man in the street. Now t...

CFHttp issues with POST ing file content

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:50:15 +0000

<p>As part of some expansion on our corporate intranet, I have begun building out a Documents API, similar to that from Google. The XML includes nodes that are more focused on our own particular business and internal arrangements, but pulls from the Google counterpart in many other ways. I wanted th...

Maintaining Cache Validity over a Multi Server Clu

Fri, 06 May 2011 14:15:02 +0000

<h3>Overview

Increasingly, data is being held in memory caches on individual servers over a cluster of multiple machines, to reduce the load and latency associated with repeated lookups in a master data store. These caches are essentially key/value stores, held in application memory. Validi...

FunctionalCF making progress

Mon, 02 May 2011 14:30:02 +0000

I've been working quite hard recently on implementing a functional syntax style of programming that's implemented in CFML (http://code.google.com/p/functionalcf/). The concept is based on the Lips-y languages with Clojure being a particular favourite of mine and one that I'm basing a lot of my desig...

Take back the tap

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:03 +0000

Today is World Water Day and for many this is a chance to challenge societies dependence on bottled water. Providing usually lower quality and more expensive water by bottle has been an ongoing campaign by the large beverage companies over the past few years. However, now it looks like the ...

Names changed..

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:30:01 +0000

...to protect the guilty, from some recent minutes that I viewed!
AB felt it would be helpful; HN agreed that there should be some form of notification; PB agreed but only if it doesn't interfere with the user; JS agreed with PB; KS agreed and GY agreed.

cfRhino on RIAForge

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:40:01 +0000

I took the decision today to lauch cfRhino onto RIAForge, to try and give it a larger pressence in the CF community. I'm not really that interested in gandering followers but I work hard on often on the framework for work and personal purposes and so I thought I might as well put it out ther...