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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. [...]

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 [...]

I couldn’t find this easily with TEH GOOGLE so I present to you here, a complete list of the built-in properties that you can access using Ant. If you don’t know what Ant is and you’re a developer, then you probably don’t use deployment scripts and should be whipped. Check out Jim Priest’s [...]

I needed to find where I was at in a table so I could report back the row and cell position for another function. There aren’t any easy-to-find answers from the Google so I set about doing my standard Javascript DOM exploration:
for (var ii in this)
console.info(” ii = ” + ii);
I explore [...]

A really interesting thread on CFGURU today discussing how to minimize the impact of clients that don’t accept cookies from rapidly creating “phantom” sessions that eat up memory. Because the client doesn’t accept a cookie, each request will appear to be a new client and ColdFusion will generate a new session along with any [...]