2006

A while back, I posted an entry about using Subversion and just got a comment on it a day or two ago with a question about tags.  Tags are absolutely essential in CVS, but in Subversion, they're a bit less required.  Still very useful, however.
In a nutshell, a tag is a named handle on a [...]

Sean, programmer extrordinaire, released a closures library for CF and it's generated a lot of interest.  Unfortunately, a lot of the interest has been of the "what are closures and what are they good for" type.  So I thought I'd contribute my thoughts.
Closures, at a most basic level, are functions defined inside a scope of [...]

Part of the application I spend most of my time working on is consumption and aggregation of XML feeds, and when the month of October turned, and interesting thing happened: processing a significant number of feeds suddenly started erroring.  We don't do it manually, instead using the very capable rssatom.cfc from Roger Benningfield, so the [...]

I've used Mollio on two projects now, and I have to say I'm really impressed.  The guys down at Daemon have done a great service to web developers at large by releasing Mollio as they have.  I can't say I particularly care for the red/black theme, but it's consistent, attractive, and unless you've got branding [...]

Everyone knows that browser compatibility is the bane of web developers.  If it's not a CSS bug or some DOM incompatibility, it's a plugin version issue (what's that, you say?  I'm thinking of something that starts with 'F' and ends with 'lex'….).  So help people put their best foot forward with a neat little CSS [...]