Monthly Archives: November 2006
- November 9, 2006
- Reserved characters in HTML ‘id’ attribute
Currently I’m building an app which will accept metadata from different sources, translate that into an API to dynamically build an HTML form from. Everything is going just dandy until my page stopped validating (I use tidy to validate my markup) when I got the following warning:
After some digging I discovered that the value of [...]
- November 9, 2006
- Cheap ColdFusion hosting?
ColdFusion hosting (shared) certainly isn’t as ubiquitous as say PHP, but there are some well known hosting providers that you can use particuarly for smaller clients on a budget.
Some of the more popular ones are Hostmysite and Crystal Tech. Last week some colleagues turned me on to Hosting A to Z who are the cheapest [...]
- November 8, 2006
- Browser testing your site design
I’ve often used browsercam for testing my sites in different browsers on different operating systems. So I can pass a URL (which must be publicly available) and see screenshot results on Windows, Linux and Mac across just about any browser you like…from Flock to Firefox and Safari to Konqueror. A full browser list can be [...]
- November 8, 2006
- Caching stored procedures
Stored procedures are great for many reasons but one of the reasons I might not use them is you can’t cache them…or can you?
A discussion at work enlightened me to a simple way around the lack of the cachedwithin attribute inside the <cfstoredproc> tag. Simply use the <cfquery> tag instead!
Ok, so normally if I wanted [...]
- November 6, 2006
- Alternatives to Adobe ColdFusion server?
For as long as I can remember there has been heated discussions regarding the cost of ColdFusion server (both Standard and Enterprise). Because that topic has been beaten to death I won’t go into the particulars or the perceived pros and cons of the cost element with ColdFusion.
For me as a ColdFusion developer I [...]