Today I’ve been working on the final bit of a PHP contract for a client where I am converting an older ASP site to PHP. This phase involves moving over the PayPal code. The API is pretty simple for PayPal actually, and involves sending a POST to a specific API...

So my girlfriend and I were discussing some plans we’ve gotta make this year, and started talking about cool dates. You know, like 9/9/1999. The coolest one so far for this year would be 10/10/2010 (ten ten ten). So anyone who has ever known me knows that not only am...

Last night I posted about a small, unscientific performance test of various method for dynamically invoking a method. So, for example, if you have a method name stored dynamically somewhere (like a database, or XML document) to be invoked against some component, there are a couple of ways to do...

Tonight I was working with a project that a buddy and I are doing on the side in an attempt to make money and I’m reviewing the code he’s got so far to make sure I have a good grasp on everything that’s going on. He’s built his own ColdFusion...

While watching a movie on TV last night, Daylight specifically (yes, the one with Sylvester Stallone), I received an email that had me as excited as if I was going to see Metallica in concert. The subject: Welcome to the Adobe Community Professionals program 2010. Needless to say I stayed...

For those that have a small case of “Mac envy”, this post is for you (and me, honestly). One of the neatest things about the Mac OS user interface is the “fisheye” menu at the bottom of the screen. You know the one, where there is a dock bar with...

I’m still a bit of a n00b with ANT still, but I took the time today to improve my skills with it a tad to help automate a task which has become quite repetitive. Once we are ready to roll changes to our application we first have to minify our...

While going over the DreamInCode.net forums I came across this question. Good day everyone. I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’ve been using Coldfusion for awhile, although I admit, I’m not a master at it. I’m pulling my hair out on a project I’m hoping someone...

This question was posted on the Adobe ColdFusion forums (found here at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546708?tstart=0). Does anyone know of a service for this compatible with CF? I need to display an amount for Korean Won and USD on a checkout form and the service at http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/CurrencyExchangeService.wsdl doesn’t exist anymore. I searched Google...

A useful feature, and high “value add” to many sites today is a text box with autocomplete and suggestion as you type. The powerful jQuery JavaScript library makes this really easy to do, especially with the help of the excellent autocomplete plugin from bassistance.de. In this example we will setup...