Another Friday and another week without posts but another week closer to the wedding. You'll be glad to know that I do have some posts coming up which are CF/ColdSpring/jQuery based and loosely connected to the cfcommerce which I am slowly getting back into. Enjoy! Who is Jack Schitt? The lineage is finally revealed! Many people are at a loss for a response when someone says: "You don't know Jack Schitt." Now you can intellectually handle the situation: [More]

Choosing colors which work well together, be it for a web page design, an interface design or some of type of graphical design, can be a bit challenging. As Kim Cavanaugh pointed out in a Fireworks article, one way to choose these colors is to sample them from a photograph. A great idea for inspiration. Well we now have another way to do this. Adobe Kuler has a feature which will sample and extract a color theme from an uploaded image file. The best part is, it's easy to do - and fun. In fact, you might find yourself spending

Downloading comma-separated value (CSV) results is a common task in web development. If you have an e-store, for example, you may want to download orders, products, or customers. There are hundreds of other uses—search results, school lists, movie titles, book lists, tables of contents, access reports, web stats, etc. Part 1 of this series showed a basic CSVFile class with the ability to create a CSV file download from any recordset. This part will show how to make a few tweaks in the class to allow Excel file downloads. The class is already built—all you do is call it. The

So... how would you decipher the word COLDFUSION? I would say it so: Creativity, Operability, Longevity, Dignity, Flexibility, Usability, Simplicity, Intelligence, Optimality, Notoriety  

We just updated the Open BlueDragon image to hold the latest changes. These are: CVS access: As of 05/15/2008 the Open BlueDragon project has CVS access. This is now also enabled in this latest update of the image. CVS checkout has been done into the directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/openbd. You can update the CVS Open BlueDragon now. "cd" into the directory and do a "cvs update" to retrieve the latest updates. The deployed "openbluedragon.war" file has been updated to the latest release (as of 05/15/2008). All CentOS 5.1 updates have been applied (as of 05/15/2008) Due to the new release and change

Kay Smoljak reviews the ColdFusion-Talk (CF-Talk) List posts for the week of May 3-9, 2008. Topics of interest included: Creating asynchronous processes CFSELECT validation Preventing URL tampering Reading the end of a file Cross-server sessions Reversing an array

My current phone is a Motorola Razr, and it's getting a little old. I can barely read the screen outside, the screen doesn't work randomly, and the test message memory is terribly small. But I don't want it to die. Not yet. I'm really looking forward to a new phone. I have two main requirements for my next phone: data and location. Data will give me the ability to browse mobile websites, get weather forcasts, and use basic email. Location aware features will give me driving directions, allow me to see the location of nearby friends, and updates online services

Lately I have been using Twitter(refriedchicken) a lot more and it is all thanks to Twinkle. For those that have an "open" iPhone you must download Twinkle. Not only can I post my pictures and updates I can find people locally that also use Twinkle. Locally, that reminds me. I like Brightkite.com (if you want an invite leave a comment) [More]

You may have noticed that my posts have been light lately. Well let me say, May needs more than 31 days. Not only is my personal life swamped (Mother's Day, Wife's Birthday, Grandpa-in-law's Birthday, Daughter's Birthday, Brother's Birthday, 3 Friend's Birthdays, Daughter's Dance Recital, Daughter's Kindergarten Grad and moving cross country, oh yeah and a 1 week long business trip). Yup, I usually just take this month off, but this year the community has several exciting things going on. Here are a few things I am currently playing with. OpenBD released, with a VMware image, Coldbox 2.6 Beta and ColdBricks

While working on a new application I ran into an interesting issue. The solution to the issue was complex, and I was not pleased with the result. The solution was far from elegant or streamlined. The code was totally bloated, but for necessary reasons. I reworked the code a few times and made it more compact but the end result was still not pleasing. I bet you are saying, "If it works leave it alone" or something like that. If so I would tend to agree. However, I am one of those people that would spend an hour coding to

I owe you, my dear reader, a quick update. If you have been following me on Twitter, you already know that on April 23 I started a new job with a new employer. In the last three weeks, I have been adapting myself to the new environment. This is not easy to do after being [...]

Ya, I know. It's been quite a while since my last post. Things have been incredibly busy with work, and I am also getting married in October. Needless to say, I've had little time to post anything here. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Linux as a desktop OS another chance. I've been using Linux as a server for a number of years and I do like it overall. Like any OS, it has it's downsides and upsides, but overall it's been reliable and smooth. However, my past experiences with Linux as a desktop haven't been

I work on a Coldfusion Content Management System SiteExecutive. This is very much a product with an established client base in the dozens. We are looking to hire another programmer to work on the product to join a team of programmers including myself. I think this is an opportunity to solve some interesting problems with datasets that number in the hundreds of thousands of records (and continually growing). It involves understanding and applying concepts and technologies particularly in the parsing and search algorithms space. Generally speaking, the focus is on doing the right thing as opposed to the expedient. That

I just released Galleon 2.2, which has a feature that folks have been asking for since 1.0. Users can now edit their own posts. This is thanks to Todd Rafferty. He did all the work for it and I just had to mod a line or two. My main objection to the ...

May be you know that I am originaly from Turkey. I used to be also ColdFusion users groups founder and manager for Turkey. And of course in nature I have big interest on Turkish language and usage in any language. Turkish is a language which uses a latin base but as you can easily understand that we have some different characters such as in my name. Here is the Turkish alphabet: "a b c ç d e f g ğ h ı i j k l m n o ö p r s ş t u ü v y z"