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CFSCRIPT List Loop?

By barneyb on April 12, 2005

Ever wanted to do a list loop inside a CFSCRIPT block? I mean,
you can already loop over an array or a structure just as easily as you
can with tags, why not a list? Well, for some reason Macromedia
decided that capability wasn't particularly important, but you can work
around it using function variables.
runningTotal = 0;
listLoop("1,2,3", loopBody);
function [...]

Posted in cfml

Seamless MySQL Connector J 3.x on ColdFusion

By barneyb on March 21, 2005

I use MySQL 4.1 almost exclusively for my work, and was a little bummed
that neither CF 6.1 nor CF7 support the 3.x Connector J driver for
it. You can use the old driver, but you run into issues because
the authentication stuff changed between MySQL 4.0 and 4.1, and only
the new 3.x drivers support the new authentication. [...]

Posted in coldfusion

BD 6.2 Update

By barneyb on March 17, 2005

Vince from NA just provided some clarification on the 6.2 release and
RC expiration on the BD mailing list. BD.NET is the only edition
that is set to expire on the 31st, and it doesn't expire, it just
reverts to developer edition. The Java editions don't expire
based on dates, they expire based on the trial licenses (never for
free, [...]

Posted in bluedragon

BlueDragon 6.2 is Coming

By barneyb on March 16, 2005

The final release of BlueDragon 6.2 is due out "very, very soon,"
according to Vince from New Atlanta. Perhaps more important to
those that have been using 6.2 RC is that the RC is set to expire on
March 31st, so you'll have to upgrade any systems to 6.2 before that
date.
I'm excited to see what tweaks and fixes [...]

Posted in bluedragon

A Non-OSX PowerBook?

By barneyb on March 16, 2005

My PowerBook saga continues. I thought that I'd come up with a
pretty stable system last week: install 10.3 from the install CDs and
don't apply ANY updates. Some of the updaters would be nice to
have, but at least with bare-bones 10.3 allowed me to do things like
boot up. Unfortunately, last night, it decided that it didn't
like [...]

Posted in osx

Sean Corfield on Frameworks

By barneyb on March 11, 2005

It's been forever since I've posted, but I'm going to try and get back
to posting at least a couple times a week again. First topic is Sean Corfield's
"Frameworks: Fusebox or Mach-II" talk that he gave last night at the
Seattle CFUG meeting. I'm not sure that's the exact title, but
it's close enough. There were about 20 [...]

Posted in cfml

Macromedia, Blackstone, and the Little Guy

By barneyb on February 6, 2005

Well, as is no doubt now common knowledge, CF 7 (Blackstone) is
out. Let me be one of the first to congratulate Macromedia on a
solid product update with some nice enhancements. Let me also be
one of the first to say I don't consider it worth the upgrade from CFMX
(6.1), unless you're using Enterprise edition. Some of [...]

Posted in coldfusion

Me and My Feisty Mac

By barneyb on January 26, 2005

I swear, my Powerbook is the feistiest computer ever. I just
installed the 2005-001 security update, rebooted, and Finder refuses to
run. It just loads and crashes at about 2 second intervals,
indefinitely. Most of my other apps work (FireFox, Dreamweaver,
etc.), but some don't (iTerm, Adium), so I don't know what's up.
Last time it got massively pissy like [...]

Posted in osx

Fun with Computers

By barneyb on January 25, 2005

First some background: our primary office file server has been acting
up periodically for a while now, and recently has become much more
insistant. All things considered, it'd done it's job remarkably
well, and without anything even approximating sufficient
hardware. So after this morning's crash, we moved on getting a
new box to replace it. The load is light (we [...]

Posted in personal

ISITE Design

By barneyb on January 13, 2005

ISITE Design
is a big-money web dev firm in Portland, OR. They recently
expanded to Boston, MA as well, judging by their web site.
However, what's interesting to me is that for a while they had a
reasonably nice all-Flash site. Definitely one of the better
Flash sites I'd run across. That's now gone in favor of an
XHTML-based one. They [...]

Posted in development