Last night I worked on a particular problem where I had a database table that represented a hierarchy of product types that looks like this. CREATE TABLE `producttype` ( `ptype_ID` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `ptype_IDParent` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `ptype_Name` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `ptype_ViewOrder` int(10) unsigned NOT...

Here lately I’ve been dabbling in Groovy and have started using Barney Boisvert’s excellent CFGroovy2 custom tag which handles the hard part of running embedded Groovy scripts in ColdFusion. For those that haven’t seen it, here is a small taste of what a groovy script could look like in a...

For all you jQuery fans out there, take a look at my first plugin! This plugin is a tagging component, similar to what is used to tag blog entries, for example. I had a good time making it, and found jQuery plugin development rather easy and fun. Notice: This plugin...

Dear Maryanne, Taylor, and Aaliyah, I just wanted to write and say that I had a really great time at Hawaiian Falls today. We swam in the pool, got wet by the giant bucket of water, and went down several big slides with fast water tubes. I know we ran...

A question was posted on the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group today. I’m trying to parse a text file to find a particular string, then extract that string and approximately 100 characters past that. So I’ve cooked up a little code sample that uses the Java regular expressions classes. The...

I’m a sucker for cool applications. I also am a super-sucker for FREE cool applications. I was working on some code with my friend Collin tonight and we had a need to take a look at some code together, but we aren’t anywhere near each other. To further complicate matters...

Quite an eventful weekend for Maryanne and I. Friday night we went out to Sonny Bryan’s in downtown Dallas for Billy’s rehearsal dinner, and at the same time to surprise Maryanne’s good friends Dana and John. We had a smashing good time and stuffed ourselves completely with good BBQ. We...

One of my favorite ColdFusion bloggers, Mr. Ben Nadel, blogged the other day about creating a custom tag that would recursively traverse a ColdFusion structure and search for values that match a regular expression search criteria. I though this was a pretty cool idea and put his code in a...

In an effort to get up to speed on ColdBox, an MVC application framework for ColdFusion, I wanted to make use of the very cool code generator called Illudium PU-36. Clearly the author is a Looney Toons fan. I’ve spent the last few days getting my old Dell Inspiron 9300...