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<div class="homeEntryDesc">I wrote a handy function today that will return the server file system path of the acting Application.cfm file for a ColdFusion application. It works by working its way up the directory tree until it finds an Application.cfm file....</div>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">I got an email today from O'Reilly today about the MySQL Conference (coming up at the end in April), it looks like a pretty good conference, but one of the sessions caught my eye. It was called A Storage Engine for Amazon S3....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/627.cfm" title="Yahoo Pipes Generates Invalid RSS Feeds">Yahoo Pipes Generates Invalid RSS Feeds</a></h2>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">I was doing some regression testing today on foundeo's feed parser for ColdFusion today, and when I saw some posts today on Yahoo Pipes, so I thought I'd add one of their RSS feeds to my test harness....</div>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">I know a lot of developers like using UUID's for primary keys instead of integers. But one thing I see alot is the use of the varchar datatype to store these strings....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/625.cfm" title="Tip for Viewing Images in Eclipse">Tip for Viewing Images in Eclipse</a></h2>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">Here's a quick tip for those using Eclipse / CFEclipse, and would like to view images in your project from within eclipse.<br /><br />Go to Window &raquo; Preferences in the Eclipse menu....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/624.cfm" title="Application.cfm and AJAX">Application.cfm and AJAX</a></h2>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">I had someone email me with the following question today:<br /><br />I'm developing a ColdFusion app with Prototype. Seems Ajax.updater wants to insert my application.cfm code into my div along with responseText....</div>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">Fighting comment spam seams like a never ending battle. I've done a lot over the last few years to try and squash it on my blog. <br /><br />I started out by implementing a list of words that would trigger the comment to be blocked....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/622.cfm" title="Calculating Distance in Miles from Latitude and Longitude">Calculating Distance in Miles from Latitude and Longitude</a></h2>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">The amount of data out there via API's is increadible these days. For instance you can take an address, and get the latitude and longitude using Google's GeoCoding API....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/621.cfm" title="Anyone used MacFuse?">Anyone used MacFuse?</a></h2>
<div class="entryDate">94 days ago</div>
<div class="homeEntryDesc">My brother Steve just pointed me to MacFuse which looks like it will be super handy!<br /><br />You have been able to setup a remote SSH virtual local file system on linux for a while now....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/620.cfm" title="Finding the Last Modified Date on a File">Finding the Last Modified Date on a File</a></h2>
<div class="entryDate">95 days ago</div>
<div class="homeEntryDesc">This question came up on my local CFUG mailing list yesterday: <br /><br />how can I get the time last updated of the two<br /><br />documents? I know you can do this with uploaded files using<br /><br />FILE.TimeLastModified....</div>
<h2 class="home"><a href="/item/619.cfm" title="Backwards LIKE Statements">Backwards LIKE Statements</a></h2>
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<div class="homeEntryDesc">Sometimes you need to think backwards.<br /><br />Here was the problem. I needed to match up some IP address ranges to the company that owns them....</div>
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