Lately I have been learning more about running ColdFusion applications in JEE application servers and servlet containers. The product I have focused on primarily is Apache’s Tomcat, a very free, open source, and scalable JEE platform. So far I have enjoyed the experience. However recently I have been asked to...

Recently I’ve been writing some Mura plugins. One of the basic pieces of the plugin is the the config.xml file which contains metadata about your plugin. One piece of that metadata is the version number of the plugin. And every time I made a change to the plugin, I would...

Wanted to throw out a quick blurb that I have updated my apMessageBox component. The newest version makes usage a little easier by providing convenience methods to display an error or information dialog, as well as providing default locations for the error and information icons. Visit http://blog.adampresley.com/jquery/apmessagebox/ to see the...

A friend showed me this trick a year or two ago, and it has come in handy once again. In Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and higher if you need to insert more than one record into a database table in a single statement (kind of like how MySQL has), here...

Here’s a quick jQuery tidbit. If you ever need to select or unselect all items in a muti-select box (a <select> tag set to allow multiple selected items), here’s a jQuery selector to do it. $("#selectBox *").attr("selected", "selected"); Notice the asterisk after the ID selector? That tells jQuery to get...

ColdFusion is a great language in its own right. What makes it even more awesome? The fact that it is a Java application. Why is this cool? Because you can dig into Java to do all the dirty stuff ColdFusion shields you from, should you desire to do so. While...

About a week ago I moved all the code for my site onto a new VPS (Virtual Private Server) provided by 2Host.com. With their unmanaged service I get 1GB of RAM, 30GB of hard drive space, and over 9TB of bandwidth, and I get it at a great price! So...

According the the website www.cffringe.org : CFFringe is the only CFML conference focused exclusively on open source and fringe topics in CFML. If you’re interested in getting into the open source CFML engines, enhancing CFML engines through plugins or outright hacking, and socializing with people doing cutting-edge things with CFML,...

Tonight I will be speaking at the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting. I will be giving the introduction topic and will be covering Advanced JavaScript 201. This includes topics on namespacing, closures, and other “gotchas”. The main topic, Iterator and Composite Patterns, will be presented by Dave Shuck, continuing...

Here’s a quick little post regarding a question I got today. I was asked how one could parse the URL to get the parameters and do something with them. The first order of business is to know that the URL address can be found in a variable tied to the...