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Rackspace: Two Weeks left On Our December Offers
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date: 2007-12-18
Messing With Your Search Engine
They write the code using either a SQL statement, a Verity search, or perhaps handing it off to Google, and that's it. But this isn't always a good idea.
Date: 2007-12-14
Rackspace: Two reasons you should host with us before 2008
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date: 2007-11-20
Moving To Coldfusion
This email just makes me happy all over. I'm always thrilled to hear about someone moving to ColdFusion. One of his questions involved hosts, so I figured it was a good one to share.
Date: 2007-11-12
Spry's Confirmation Validation
A few days ago I blogged about Spry's password validation. It is an impressive little widget giving you nice control over how strong your password needs to be.
Date: 2007-10-29
ColdFusion 8 Drop Shadow Example
I'm definitely not the first person to do this - but I've been itching to do drop shadows ever since I started playing with ColdFusion 8's new image functionality.
Date: 2007-10-15
Quick & Dirty JSON/Query Example
Yesterday in the ColdFusion chat room someone asked a question (a technical question at that - guess how rare that is?) about how they could use a JSON-encoded query.
Date: 2007-09-20
Avoiding Those "Hidden" Features
I've said more than once that folks should avoid using hidden, undocumented features in ColdFusion. This warning applies especially to the ServiceFactory.
Date: 2007-08-28
Coldfusion: Counting Word Instances In A String
Yesterday in the IRC channel someone asked if there was a way to count the number of times each unique word appears in a string.
Date: 2007-08-06
Saving Bandwidth On Your RSS Feed
One of the things you will notice after you have published an rss feed is that it will consume a lot of the bandwidth.
Date: 2007-07-16
Multiple Ad Placements Perform Well
I saw an old episode of “Cheers” the other night; in it, a woman repeatedly sang her phone number to Frasier, and (much to Lilith’s dismay) Norm, Cliff, and Woody took up the tune.
Date: 2007-07-02
AJAX UI Menus In Coldfusion 8
Continuing on with my tour of the new AJAX UI controls in ColdFusion 8, today I want to talk about menus. It seems like I've been building DHTML menus since before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, so it's nice to see this made a heck of a lot easier in ColdFusion 8. Let's get into it.
Date: 2007-06-19
Automatically Pushing To A New URL Made Simpler
First off - I read Pete Freitag's excellent blog post, What
CFLOCATION Does, where he talks about how the status code sent out
by CFLOCATION is intended for temporary move, not a permanent one.
Using the code he suggested, I added a cfheader to my site. However,
I have two styles of URLs. I have both traditional query_string
style:
Date:2007-06-11
ColdFusion 8: Admin API & Trusted Cache
Along with cool tags and functions added in ColdFusion 8, there have also been some neat updates to the Admin API.
Date:2007-06-08
Autosuggest In Spry
Autosuggest isn't new to Spry 1.5, but I never had a chance to take a look at it till this morning. Surprisingly it wasn't too difficult.
Date:2007-05-21
CfObjective - Mark Mandel & Transfer ORM
(As before please pardon the writing.) The problem that we need to solve is writing all the objects that model your database.
Date:2007-05-07
Nice PHP Contact Form Script & A Few Alterations
A colleague from the Women Designer's Group has
a great little PHP contact form script posted on her blog.
Date:2007-04-23
AJAX And Server Side Search
I've blogged before (or at least think I have) about how to do client side filtering/searching of data with Spry. An example of this is the search at RIAForge.
Date:2007-04-09
SEO & Accessibility Prevent Lawsuits, Increase Visibility
The WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C), in May 0f 1999, issued Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which outlined methods of making web content easily accessible to the...
Date: 2007-03-19
ASP.NET: Count Clicks On External Links
On a small test website I'm building in my spare time, I wanted a way to count the number of clicks to the outgoing links from that site. Imaging hosting banners or other affiliate...
Date: 2007-03-05
Coldfusion: Switching To CFQUERYPARAM
I've had a few requests to quickly review how to switch a dynamic query not using cfqueryparam to one that is using cfqueryparam.
Date: 2007-02-19
Remove The WWW Subdomain
Many websites have two points of entry for each individual page - one with www and one without. It means that if other websites link to yours, they might link to the same page using two different addresses.
Date: 2007-02-05
Flex/ColdFusion Mystery And A Very Simple Answer
I was working on a Flex project when I hit a brick wall. I had a very simple form. Flex was using remoting to send the form information to ColdFusion. ColdFusion was doing nothing with the data.
Date: 2007-01-22
Google's Crawling Of CSS Files Unnerving
Barry Schwartz spotted a thread in the Cre8site Forums discussing a report by Ekstreme.com that Googlebot requested a CSS file. This is a very interesting, but not surprising development.
Date: 2007-01-08
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