By barneyb on March 13, 2010
If you've used WordPress, you may have run across shortcodes. They're little directives you type into the editor box which then evaluate dynamically when the content is rendered on the outside of you site. Plugins can register new shortcode handlers, which are implemented as a simple function callback. It's a really simple way to expose [...]
Posted in cfml, tools, wordpress
By barneyb on March 10, 2010
Everyone knows that one of the best ways to increase page performance is to reduce the number of HTTP requests required for related assets. There are a pile of ways to approach this (JS/CSS aggregation, image sprites, caching), but the best (and simplest) is client-side caching. It doesn't help your first-time visitors at all (which [...]
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By barneyb on February 26, 2010
I made another minor update to my Amazon S3 CFC this evening, this time to support PUTting public objects. To this point, the CFC left the default ACL on new objects PUT on S3, meaning that you needed an authorized URL (via a query string signature) to retrieve them. That was the use case I [...]
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By barneyb on January 25, 2010
I just upgrade to Subclipse 1.6 and it has an awesome new feature: diffs right in the commit dialog. It seemed a common use case for myself that when it came time to commit, I'd open my commit dialog and cycle through the files writing my commit message in Kate because I couldn't type while [...]
Posted in aside, eclipse, tools
By barneyb on November 19, 2009
I briefly mentioned imageTranslateDrawingAxis in my previous post about Fusebox flowcharts, but wanted to provide a more self-contained example of how it can be used to great effect. The idea here is to draw a house with a window, and to do it in a relative manner, rather than an absolute manner. Consider these two [...]
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By barneyb on November 17, 2009
About a week ago someone posted on the Fusebox mailing list looking for a way to generate flowcharts from his Fusebox XML files. Adalon was suggested, but it didn't do quite what he was looking for. So I sunk some of my spare time into building such a tool, and even managed to refrain from [...]
Posted in cfml, fusebox, tools
By barneyb on September 8, 2009
LessCss is a nifty extension to the core CSS language to support variables, calculated values, inclusion-by-reference, nesting, and some other goodies. Basically the idea is to simplify and reduce duplication in large stylesheets. Here's a simple example of a variable and a computed value:
@color: #fdd;
#header {
background-color: @color;
color: @color / 2;
}
That translates [...]
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By barneyb on July 22, 2009
UPDATE: Turns out ColdSpring already has this functionality via the 'includeMappedNames' property in recent versions. The ColdSpring the app I was working on uses an older ColdSpring. So if you have a recent version of ColdSpring, this CFC is irrelevant; use the built-in one.
If you use ColdSpring, chances are you've used it's AOP functionality, and [...]
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By barneyb on July 14, 2009
CFGroovy 2 has been been released into the wild tonight as it's own project, separate from CFGroovy. Read all about it on it's shiny new project page. With the advent of CF9 and built-in ORM tooling, ongoing development with Hibernate integration seems wasteful. Bugs will be fixed, since there are a fair number of sites [...]
Posted in cfml, groovy, tools
By barneyb on July 14, 2009
Until this evening, CFGroovy 2 has lived as a branch in the original CFGroovy project. Now it has it's very own top-level directory. So if you've any working copies and/or unpinned svn:externals pointed at
https://ssl.barneyb.com/svn/barneyb/cfgroovy/branches/cfgroovy2
you'll need to switch them to point at
https://ssl.barneyb.com/svn/barneyb/cfgroovy2/trunk
instead.
Apologies for any inconvenience this causes, but CFGroovy 2 really isn't a new version of [...]
Posted in cfml, groovy, tools
