Changing the page title after it has rendered

ColdFusion , Web Development 5 Comments »

On several occasions I have had the need to modify a page's <title> tag after it has already rendered.  Most commonly, this occurs when a Content Management System is generating the template.  So, I wrote a custom tag to handle this ...

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Avoid ORDER BY RAND() in MySQL

ColdFusion , MySQL , Web Development 19 Comments »

This is probably old knowledge, but for some reason I never ran into it until this week.  You should almost never use the ORDER BY RAND() statement in MySQL.

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GoDaddy Dedicated Support??!?!?

Default , Web Servers 10 Comments »

This has to be one of most entertainingly useless responses I have ever seen when requesting support.

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ColdFusion at Hamilton College

ColdFusion , Web Development 3 Comments »

An interesting article about the types of things we are using ColdFusion for at Hamilton College:

http://my.hamilton.edu/Spectator/021909/SciTech/LAMP.html

 I don't really understand the title of the article, though.

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jQuery Replacements for CFGRID, CFWINDOW, and CFTOOLTIP

Ajax , ColdFusion , Default , Web Development 66 Comments »

I recently completed the beta version of CFjqAjax.  This is a library of custom tags that replicate the CFGRID, CFWINDOW, and CFTOOLTIP tags from ColdFusion 8.  The CF8 tags work, but I find YUI and Ext much harder to work with than jQuery, and the file size of the JavaScript libraries that CF8 includes is excessive.  So, I created CFjqAjax.

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