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CFQUERYPARAM, People

By barneyb on November 19, 2004

I'm amazed at the number of problems that crop up on the mailing lists that can be solved simply by using CFQUERYPARAM rather than inlining values directly. I'm also amazed at the amount of code copy and pasted into emails regarding unrelated problems that don't use CFQUERYPARAM.
CFQUERYPARAM is your friend. Use it. [...]

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The Ant Goes Marching…

By barneyb on November 16, 2004

Ant, for those of you who don't know, is a Java-based build system that was designed to replace 'make' for Java projects. I've been using it a lot recently to automate various repetitive tasks that I have to do. Ironically, I've yet to build any software with it.
The two most recent things I've [...]

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Loosely Typed Languages

By barneyb on November 10, 2004

On CF-Talk today, someone asked about these two expressions:
<cfset i = 5 />
<cfoutput>
#i GT 0 AND i LT 4#
#i GT 0 LT 4#
</cfoutput>

Obviously the first one will be false (5 is not less than 4), but the second one is true! Why, you ask? Because CF is loosely typed, which means that a [...]

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Counter Computer

By barneyb on November 7, 2004

I finally got my counter computer fully functional. The monitor still isn't hung, but it's all working now. The last step was to get a wireless card for it so I didn't have to run an Ethernet cable over from where our router is. For some stupid reason, it was cheaper to [...]

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I'm Popular?

By barneyb on November 6, 2004

I just noticed an interesting thing. My blog is getting more traffic in than The Boisvert Life for the first time ever. I guess this means that I'll actually have to start providing real content. ; )

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JSP?!?

By barneyb on November 1, 2004

I've had a few questions recently about my choice of JSPs for my personal web site. Obviously I'm a ColdFusion guy, so it seems like I ought to be running ColdFusion for my personal site. I'm also an avid Fusebox user/developer, so it makes sense that I'd be using Fusebox as well. [...]

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BlueDragon

By barneyb on October 26, 2004

I partially retract my anti-BlueDragon wrath of a few days ago. Turns out BD installs a key into a NewAtlanta-specific registry file, and doesn't bother to remove it when it gets uninstalled. So to reinstall, you need to go manually remove the key from the registry file. The file is located at [...]

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Death to BlueDragon!!

By barneyb on October 19, 2004

More fun with BlueDragon tonight. I've never gotten BD to connect to apache2 on my mac. New Atlanta didn't bother to include a connector that actually works, even though BD will happily attempt to connect itself. So tonight, I thought that I'd reinstall a new version of BD, since there were a [...]

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CVS Authentication

By barneyb on October 17, 2004

As part of my cvs.fusebox.org project, I made up a little CFC that will perform authentication against a CVS passwd file. I didn't want to have to maintain two sets of credentials for all the CVS users, so this proved a very good solution. The implementation was actually pretty simple; the most difficult [...]

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BlueDragon

By barneyb on October 16, 2004

I installed BlueDragon on my server a while back, so that I just throw together a little comment management script for the blogs in CFML, rather than JSP. Since then I haven't used it much until the last week or two. I wrote a very simple FB4 site with an access-controlled section for [...]

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