Archive for 2006/08

I have a big report that I’m generating using CFDOCUMENT. It replicates a paper form by using a background image of the original form (in PNG format) and overlaying data from a database on top of it, absolutely positioned using CSS.
I have experienced a number of image scaling issues trying to use CSS background [...]

Am I the last one to hear about outbound dialing from your web application? There are a couple of service providers who will let you programmatically initiate an outbound telephone call and incorporate pre-recorded audio or text-to-speech. I just tried a demo of CDyne’s Notify! and you can even set the caller ID [...]

There have been a number of people who identified ColdFusion’s string handling (based on unmutable Java strings) to be somewhat slow.
I build large strings for use in custom reports for my app and I wanted to know how CFSAVECONTENT stacks up to other string handling in CF. Here are three ways (ordered by speed, [...]

This isn’t a “racing” topic, but damn if this car wasn’t built to be raced! Chris from the E30 M3 SIG has posted pics of his brand new M Coupe going through the BMW delivery facility in Oxnard, California. About 100 pics are posted here.

When I’m writing Javascript or Actionscript, I like using JSON-style notation for creating objects and variables:
foo = {“status”: true
,”name”: “Brian”
,”values”: [0, 5, 11, 93, 2] }
In ColdFusion, the equivalent would be the tedious:
foo = structNew();
foo.status = true;
foo.name [...]

I have a fairly complex report system in ColdFusion (v7) that takes one or more queries and joins them together in preparation for filtering and display. Some data comes from a database call and some columns are dynamically added to the query via queryAddColumn(), specifying the datatype as we go along like so:

<cfset queryAddColumn(data, [...]

Albondigas simply means “meatballs” in Spanish. As a meal it’s a pork and beef meatball steamed and then lightly sauteed and served in a carrot or tomato soup depending on season.
After celebrating our friend’s birthday at Dona Tomas in Oakland (who have an absolutely fabulous hand-squeezed Margarita Reina), Jennifer picked up their cookbook which [...]

I’m using CFMX 7 and CFDOCUMENT to generate a PDF report I’ve created. It’s a paper form that we’ve “made digital” by placing the original form as a PNG in the background and then overlaying the database-backed information on top.
However, depending on the data, we are seeing weird resizing issues in the background image [...]