I and Rob Brooks-Bilson have just made some change to the mappings.cfc I blogged about before, the ZIP file has been updated here . No extra functionality has been added nor any bugs fixed. Corrections were to move code out from the functions into the constructor area to tidy it up. It should also be available on cfczone.org at some point over the weekend.
All changed again here in blog land. Despite looking absolutely identical, I undertook a major rewrite behind the scenes. I’ve rewritten the site using Fusebox 4 and MVC architecture, retaining Ray Camden’s blog.cfc for the ‘model’ layer.
I’ve got a whole heap of plans for the site so needed to get that bit done now before i can concentrate on the rest. Hopefully it will all hold together, but if you find any problems please let me know.
I thought i’d blogged an idea i had a few months back but it turns out i hadn’t.
Whilst working on an app i’m building i realised that i’m forever writing data driven drop down menus using most often than not the same code. Like most people i’m always looking for ways to cut out the amount of code i have to duplicate so I figured i’d create an HTML Widget CFC. Firstly, don’t preach at me that CFCs shouldn’t be used to render output. You only have to read BenF’s blog entry here to see that it’s simply not true. Why didn’t i create it as a custom tag? Again, Ben’s blog entry highlights the overlap in capabilites between Custom Tags and CFCs.
So click more to read on….
I was puzzled this morning why i was receiving a critical update relating to a font set on my laptop. The problematic font is the BookShelf7 font that ships with Office2003. Microsoft says the characters were “included by mistake”. So what were the offending characters? - well, it seems to be fairly well reported that the charcters were anti-sematic and nazist symbols. I hunted around on Google and found a number of reports, this one seems to give the most away.
Brian Kotek has got a new article posted on builder.com covering polymorphism with CFCs on Cold Fusion MX. I’m relatively new to OOP techniques and methods but it certainly made sense to me, see the article here
New figures on Macromedia.com now show that 98% of all internet enabled PCs are capable of showing flash content without needing to download and install a flash player. 466 million downloads of Flash certainly is a good indication of successful market penetration!!!
See more data here
Something i’ve just been experimenting with for the first time is passing a structure of parameters into a CFCs argument collection.
I’m working on a project that has a number of drop downs which filter based on previous selections. In one particular case i have drop downs for Geographical region, Countries, Institution Type and Institution Name. When a user selects a geopgrahical region i need the drop downs to filter based on that criteria, ie retrieve countries in the selected region and institutions in that region.
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