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ComboBox Update

By barneyb on July 10, 2005

Yeah, I know it's only been a few hours, but after implementing a few different instances, I quickly decided that async processing was basically required for a performant UI. Your callback function no longer has to return an array of items (it still can, of course), but now it will be passed a second [...]

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DHTML ComboBox Widget

By barneyb on July 9, 2005

With the wife and kid out of town, I didn't have much to do, so I spent the afternoon building a simple DHTML combobox widget. Yes, I'm that much of a geek. I haven't done a lot of testing, but I built it exclusively in FireFox, aiming for compatibility, and IE6 behaved exactly [...]

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TreeManager CFC Released

By barneyb on July 8, 2005

I put together this component a while back, intending to eventually
release it, and it's now time.  Basically it manages a tree of
records in a databas table using the nested set model.  It acts
independantly of your existing persistance operations, and only
requires the addition of two fields to your table for it's use. 
You continue to manage your [...]

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More J2EE Goodness

By barneyb on July 8, 2005

I recently needed to capture output for a page to email, as well as
actually output it to the page.  No big deal with CFSAVECONTENT,
of course, but there was one little glitch: occasionally, the core code
needed to use CFFLUSH, and in those cases, the email wasn't needed,
just the screen output.  Rather than screw around with separate
page [...]

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The MySpace.com Cowboys

By barneyb on July 1, 2005

I've been at CFUNITED all week, and based
on the amount of blog coverage that's occurred without my help, I
didn't feel compelled to post.  However, the day three New Atlanta
/ MySpace.com keynote was an amazing talk that couldn't go without my
opinions being expressed to the world.
First, some background.  MySpace.com is a huge
CFML site that has recently [...]

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Couple MT Changes

By barneyb on June 20, 2005

I installed MT-Blacklist,
a comment and trackback spam filter a couple weeks ago.  Man does
it do it's job well.  Took a little training to get it catching
all the usual suspects, but just in the past few days it's caught over
a thousand spam comments.  So much nicer than having to delete
them manually.
Last night, I also installed MT-Notifier,
which [...]

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Fink for Tiger

By barneyb on June 20, 2005

Last night I finally got Fink
installed on my newly Tiger-ed PowerBook.  Opted for the binary
install this time, and it worked like a charm.  Less than 40
minutes to go from noticing that a 10.4-specific release had been made
to having it all set up with X, Gnucash, the GImP, and the GNU
FileUtils package (for the color-aware ls [...]

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Naming CFC Instance Variables

By barneyb on June 19, 2005

I was working on a little app of mine over the weekend that uses a
closed-source (encrypted) CFC for some of it's functionality.  The
CFC (which will go unnamed to protect the innocent), does a number of
things, but it's functionality wasn't quite "complete" enough for my
application, so I extended it to add a couple more features.  No
problem, [...]

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Another CFML w/ Java Trick

By barneyb on June 16, 2005

I just wrote a script that would check for orphaned files in an
uploads directory.  Orphan meaning the file still exists, but the
database doesn't have record of it.  Those files needed to either
be reclaimed or deleted, but finding them is cumbersome (and slow!)
process.
What I discovered is that CFDIRECTORY ACTION="list" is really slow if you just need [...]

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PasswordSafe accesses the Internet??

By barneyb on June 11, 2005

Before I start, how many of you loyal readers out there use or have used PasswordSafe? If you would, leave me a comment, because I'm curious.
Anyway, I just got an email from a PasswordSafe user that said it was connecting to the internet every time he saved his data file. I'm not a [...]

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