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More Batik Goodness

By barneyb on May 4, 2006

Last October I posted about using ColdFusion and Batik together to convert dynamically generated SVG content into PNGs for easier consumption. Well thanks to a little more digging and a post by Christian Cantrell, I've improved upon it further.
<cfscript>
context = getPageContext();
context.setFlushOutput(false);
response = context.getResponse().getResponse();
response.setContentType("image/png");
transcoder = [...]

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EmailReader Details

By barneyb on May 3, 2006

Nathan Strutz commented on my last post about EmailReader that he didn't "get" it.  Looking back, I realized I didn't bother to communicate it's purpose very clearly in my post, so here's another one that should do a better job.
EmailReader is designed for being run from a scheduled task to do "something", where "something" is [...]

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New Adobe.com and the Power of Flash

By barneyb on May 2, 2006

As is old news by now, the new Adobe.com is live, and they've done a great job.  In my mind, definitely eclipsing either the old Adobe.com or Macromedia.com in terms of design.  However, the demons of Flash bite again, and come with a huge helping of irony since Adobe is the purveyor:

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EmailReader CFC 0.1 Nearing Completion

By barneyb on May 1, 2006

The first feature complete version of my EmailReader component is nearing completion.  I've got it all working with the exception of attachment and message deletion, and it's looking pretty nice.
I'd originally planned on making it an "abstract" base class that you would extend to add your application-specific functionality.  However, like so many initial designs, further [...]

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