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After seven months of heavy development and a rocky-but-now-stable launch behind me, I feel like I have some command over Model-Glue (instead of the other way around). I am certainly no expert but I want to share a few of the things that tripped me up when I was getting started and solutions that [...]

Dan Switzer has been up to more good with jQuery releasing a multi-column dropdown plugin developed for Giva that can handle an arbitrary number of elements from a series of nested unordered lists.
There are two things that I like about this plugin in particular:

Full support for keyboard input
Designed to handle a lot of data

I have [...]

When I started the process of rebuilding my application in Model-Glue, Transfer and Coldspring nearly 9 months ago, the DIY programmer in me moaned at giving up direct control over the persistence layer in using Transfer. But it was clear that if I was going to commit to going OO with my ColdFusion application, [...]

After lots of hard work and many improvements by Aussie Mark Mandel, it looks like Transfer 1.0 is within a few hours is of a public release. Congrats Mark – a job well done!
Update 6/8: The announcement is out and the code is available for download. I’ll be upgrading our production tomorrow. [...]

I thought maybe it was just me, but it turns out uninvolved third parties have the same head-scratching case of bewilderment.
2008 called and it wants its common sense back. Pronto.

Based on advice from Sean Corfield, I set up my application as a series of three sub-applications. A public application, a staff application and a superuser application. This is a great way to divide and conquer an application separating controllers and configuration but there aren’t many concrete examples of how to go about [...]

I’ve been working on my exception reports and one of the things I wanted to do was isolate the equivalent of a “404″ response in Model-Glue to be more graceful to the user. I found this post from Ray’s site and a promise in the comments from Joe Rinehart that typed exceptions would make [...]

I use fairly vanilla SQL most of the time so I was shocked to read this post on the PostgreSQL list when I ran into some slowness with a NOT IN query. While my experience is with Postgres, apparently this works with most databases.
If you have a NOT IN with a subquery that returns [...]

I know I have my patterns – I get my computer set up and for the next 2 years I leave it nearly as-is. Then I get a new machine (Lenovo X61) and it’s time to see what’s new out there.
I did that search four weeks ago when installing Thunderbird and came across some [...]

Mozilla just released Sunbird and Lightning 0.8, the calendar project of the Mozilla Group. I’ve been using the combination of Thunderbird, Lightning/Sunbird and a GTD tool called ThinkingRock for over a year now. The problem is that my calendar files have grown and the calendar would take sometimes as long as 5-10 seconds [...]