8
Oct
Zebra Striping (Highlighting) Alternating Rows [Crystal Reports 10]
Alternating row colors (or zebra striping as I’ve come to call it) is a very simple addition to any report or table that can make of world of difference in how readable the report is. When I was trying to accomplish this on a Crystal Report I’m creating I found Read more
3
Oct
Clearing Up A Little Confusion Regarding StructKeyExists() Vs. IsDefined() While Parsing XML [ColdFusion]
This is something really simple that I consistently overlook. When considering StructKeyExists() or IsDefined(), StructKeyExists() normally always wins. It’s scope parameter instructs ColdFusion where to look for a particular variable, where as IsDefined() forces Cold Fusion to search through all the scopes. The performance impact is obvious. A possible exception Read more
30
Sep
Revisiting My Categories [Site Update]
I haven’t been happy with my category structure for a while now. There were to many broad categories with too few posts to populate them. Really I was using some of my categories in the place of tags and this was creating somewhat of a mess of posts. I’ve consolidated Read more
25
Sep
ColdFusion Causes Frustration {HTML Input Element Arrays}
I don’t understand why ColdFusion insists on making things difficult. I’ve come to understand that it is not possible for ColdFusion to make use of inherent input arrays when one or more input elements is left empty. For some reason ColdFusion always drops the empty values from the array. I Read more
22
Sep
Yes, This Actually Happened
99% of you won’t understand. But for those who do… oh boy. Read more
17
Sep
Pulling A Substring Out Of A String With Regular Expressions And ColdFusion 8
I have a love/hate relationship with Coldfusion. (Okay, so it’s more hate than love) But one of the aspects of the programming language that I have come to love is it’s simplicity with dealing with regular expressions. Using predefined methods such as reFind() and reReplace() have made task, which could Read more
4
Sep
5 Best Wordpess Themes
WordPress on many levels is the ‘perfect’ application in my eyes. One element that makes it such a dynamic system is how easy the WP developers have made it to theme your content. This ease of use, unfortunately, has lead to a internet flooded with sub-par and look alike WordPress Read more
22
Aug
Javascript Count Down Timer & Clock
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31
Jul
Reason I Haven’t Written Off Bing
With a ten year in the making deal finally comping to a close, it seems that Yahoo and Microsoft searching will merge. This pretty much means that whenever you Yahoo, you’re reallying just going Bing. Most people in my professional circles (the web development circle) thinks that Microsoft is wasting Read more