Hey, that is undocumented!
Posted At : May 15, 2008 7:36 PM
| Posted By : Dave
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ColdFusion 8,General
While working on a new application I ran into an interesting issue. The solution to the issue was complex, and I was not pleased with the result. The solution was far from elegant or streamlined. The code was totally bloated, but for necessary reasons. I reworked the code a few times and made it more compact but the end result was still not pleasing.
I bet you are saying, "If it works leave it alone" or something like that. If so I would tend to agree. However, I am one of those people that would spend an hour coding to squeeze out 500ms of processing. I am very critical of what I write and do my very best to make performance paramount.
After leaving the code sit for a few days I want back to it with a clear head. I then started poking around the net looking for ideas. I then started playing around using underlying java objects to make the code better. I then found some undocumented functions in CF that made the code even better.
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What is wrong with me?
Posted At : March 24, 2008 9:08 AM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
I just noticed that I have not blogged in a month. Looking back on the past month I see why. I started working in multiple projects. Fixed a static (ick) website for a friend. Started working on a few new other new ideas (more to come on this later). But, for the most part, I have been elbows deep in writing code. However, I have not been writing anything groundbreaking that is blog worthy. This should all hopefully change in the next week or so. Stay tuned.
Till next time...
--Dave
Go see Wicked!
Posted At : February 8, 2008 7:48 AM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
OK, this entry has nothing do with with CF. However, it is my blog so...
I was finally able to see Wicked last night. I must say, if you have the opportunity to see it, GO. The show was absolutely phenomenal. Great story, great music, with just enough humor tossed in. It is a great twist on a well known story.
It is not a cheap show to see but it is worth the price of admission, and then some.
till next time,
--Dave
2007 CFemmys voting open
Posted At : December 18, 2007 9:20 AM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
Voting is now open for the 2007 CFemmys. You can Vote Here. Voting ends Friday 12/21 so don't delay. Thanks to Todd for organizing this.
I am actually nominated for an award in the Best Newcomer category.
--Dave
New Blog URL
Posted At : December 12, 2007 8:18 PM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
In case you haven't noticed my blog url has changed. Thanks to an assist from Raymond Camden all the links that went to the old blog url should still work. If you run into any issues please let me know.
The new url is http://blog.dkferguson.com.
Please update your bookmarks, rss readers, or any other links accordingly.
Thanks,
--Dave
Why did I not see this before
Posted At : November 26, 2007 8:18 AM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
Ok... I seriously wish I would have seen this before. I was poking around the add-ons for FireFox and ran across this. It is an extension to switch a tabs rendering engine from FireFox to IE.
You can check it out here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
--Dave
CFDJ out SLDJ in?
Posted At : September 10, 2007 6:26 AM
| Posted By : Dave
Related Categories:
General,ColdFusion
On the off chance you just got out of hibernation lets recap. Sys-Con has decided to drop CFDJ and replace it with SLDJ (SilverLight Developers Journal). Now, just in case you have seriously been out of touch. SilverLight is supposed to be the Flash killer from Microsoft (Draw your on conclusions here).
Their reasoning for dropping ... err ... relaunching CFDJ as SLDJ is just dumb and makes no sense. They claim that there is a move away from ColdFusion for AJAX, FLEX, and SilverLight. Well apparently they have no idea what these all are. ColdFusion is a back-end solution where as the others are user interface (RIA) items. Also, how can you relaunch something when the new content is completely different subject matter than the old?
I have not been a fan of CFDJ for some time now. The content has been nothing but lackluster for some time. They were always behind. They even tried to cover it up by not putting the month on the magazine cover anymore. Beyond that the article content was behind as well. The latest issue has the lead story on test driving CF8 beta. But, when I received it CF8 was out of beta and in full release.
For me personally, I am glad to see it go. It was doing ColdFusion a dis-service as a developers journal. I would rather read more current things from blogs and online articles that are covering current issues.
The huge bright side in all this is that I don't have to go to sys-con's pos website anymore. That site should be on the list of the top 5 worst web sites ever.
--Dave
Safari 3 for the PC!?
Posted At : June 11, 2007 1:31 PM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
Well, we now have another browser to test against. Apple has released Safari 3 beta and it works on the PC. I just installed it on a Windows Vista and it is actually faster than Firefox. It does, however, look like iTunes.
--Dave
Flash CS3 & Dreamweaver
Posted At : May 14, 2007 12:39 PM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
I just got done installing Flash CS3 Pro. I installed DW CS3 a little while ago but I did not install Flash then because I did not have the time. Well, considering how the install went I should have done it then. The install of just flash took forever. It had something to do with updating the shared components but it took over 30 minutes. Then none of my Flash 8 installed components were put into Flash CS3. I have now have to go find them and install them again.
Flash did get a face lift where DW did not. I find it kind of strange that they would package all the products under the "CS3" name but not make them look the same.
--Dave
Dreamweaver CS3
Posted At : May 14, 2007 5:53 AM
| Posted By : Dave
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General
So, I installed DW CS3 and have been using it for a little bit now. My first impression is that there is nothing different. The interface looks identical to DW8. Some of the DW8 interface bugs have even made their way into DW CS3. There is new stuff though; all the Spry pieces, integration into other CS3 apps, and CSS stuff.
Seems to me that a major release should have had more of a dramatic change than this.
--Dave
