Well, its kinda annoying. My blog has been online for about 6 months now and it was only last week that the number of spam comments I receive, crossed 1000. But I was checking the spam comments today and I was surprised to see that total number of spam comments caught has gone up to 2012. Well, thats over 1000 spams in a week!
Thanks a lot to Akismet for doing all the hard work of catching and deleting spam silently and effectively.
However, one note to spammers, if you are smart enough to get into the system by breaking the captcha or by what ever other ways, you should be smart enough to “not” continue spamming after finding out that your comments get deleted automatically.
Yes, thats right. I have just released some updates to Coldfusiondocs.com. It’s now got a 4th panel to it which lists the related links for the tag or function in question. The idea here is that, lets say you are browsing cfquery tag on the left panel, you should be able to look at the cfquery related links (ideally blog posts or other useful links specific to cfquery), right there on the right panel.
I think this adds more value to it in a way that you can look at the documentation and the “interesting” blog posts at the same time in the same interface. It would be really helpful to have these links “rated” and the most rated ones show on top but I would leave it like this for few weeks and based on the interest it generates, I would then later on add the rating feature. Remember, this is not a paid project, so I have to keep this development only to my limited free time.
At the moment, anyone can add links by entering a name and email address, and apart from some very basic validations, its straight forward to add a link. You just need to select a tag or function on the left panel (I have added a few in cfgrid to start with), and then on the right lower panel, fill the form in to add links. Thats about it.
There is no moderation at the moment but I will periodically do an exercise to remove any “non-genuine” links (not that I expect them but you never now), until I put some checks in place to validate a link (as in if it really is a CF related link).
So, go ahead and add links. www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/
Here is an example of how to change the pageSize of an AJAX CFFGRID dynamically.
Purpose :-
Let the end user select how many rows of data he/she wants to see in the Grid. (ie technically speaking, change the pageSize on the fly).
Approach :-
1) Add a ComboBoxwith the number of Rows to be selected, for the user to be able to select. use the Ext JS functions to achieve that.
2) Take the value selected from ComboBox and reload the grid data.
3) Reload the paging Toolbar as well because, apparently, the grid data and paging toolbar work independently, reloading the grid does not reload the paging toolbar. So you have to do that manually.
4) Reconfigure the Grid. More »
ColdFusion 8 has been nominated for the Great Indian Developer Awards 2008. Now, that is great news. It’s always good to see CF getting the exposure and acknowledgement it deserves.
I am curious to see what the results of this would be, due on the 24th of March, 2008. Apart from the “Web Development - Design, development, deployment” category, under which ColdFusion 8 is nominated, I am particulary interested in another category which is “Top Ambassador - Ambassador for India’s IT Ecosystem”. The nominations for this category include India’s top IT software houses, some of which have really changed the way the world looks at India’s IT industry as it stands today.
I have just done my votes, its time you do yours!
If you want to display a hand cursor over a Flex component (any Flex Component I would say ?), there are two properties that come handy. useHandCursor and buttonMode. In some cases, a third property called mouseChildren might be required as well.
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Just found this nice website that allows you to create/edit your .htaccess file online. It seems to allow all the possible features supported by .htacess. I think this is quite a useful utility to have for any web developer.
I have added a new category to the coldfusion documentation at www.coldfusiondocs.com. The category is called ‘CF8 Javascript Functions’ and it lists all the available JS functions in CF8. There are 33 functions in total, however, I wouldnt mind adding any ‘undocumented’ JS functions to the list, so if you know of any, feel free to send them over.
Go check it out. - Select ‘CF8 Javascript Functions’ in the dropdown.
Adobe is running a ‘developer week‘ starting from tomorrow ie 24th March, 2008. There will be sessions throughout the week and a total of 20 different sessions covering AIR, Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. There are quite a few interesting topics and the ones that are particulary of interest to me are these ones :-
- Introduction to Adobe Blaze DS
- Adobe AIR Local Data Storage Options With Emphasis on Using Embedded SQL Databases
- Flex and Java – Tying the Knot!
- Flex Visual Data & Charting
- AIR Native Drag and Drop
- ColdFusion Powered Rich Applications for the Internet and Desktop
I am sure all the sessions would be informative but I am registered for the ones above and will do my best to attend these.
Thanks Adobe!
I am a bit late in finding this out but I just read that, on Feb 21st 2008, Firefox reached a whopping 500 million downloads. Now that really is a marvellous achievement. I remember those days (years ago) when IE was the popular browser and everyone used to code around compatibility between different versions of IE, but with browsers like Firefox around, things really have turned around. I myself have stopped using IE completely now (unless I want to test how a website looks in IE).
The full details can be found here.
After looking at Dan Vega’s series of posts on CFGRID usage, I decided to put together an example of CFGRID with a full CRUD functionality. ColdFusion 8 has introduced the new HTML format CFGRID which uses AJAX behind the scenes. I quite like the features it offers and I think with EXT framework behind the scenes, there are some nice things that can be done with it. Dan has already covered a lot of these areas and is doing a great job I think in writing these posts up. More »