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Archive for June, 2007

OT: I HATE ads on CFDJ

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

<cfrant>Ok…
I understand (though I’m not happy) that advertising is a part of our everyday lives and ‘online’ is no exception.
I understand that to subsidise costs, many sites have to display advertising to bring us (the audience) great content. These ads are usually in the form of banners or inline (adsense) textual ads etc.
I understand all […]

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Inspirational posts from the community

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Like a lot of people I spend quite a bit of time reading the technical blogs as a constant source of knowledge and advancement.
A couple of posts both inspired and got me thinking over the weekend so I thought I’d quickly mention both in case anybody missed them, they’re a great read.
The first was by […]

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Often when creating ColdFusion components developers will create a structure to hold component instance data. This data is stored in the components ‘variables’ scope and is therefore available to all methods.
Here is an example from the rooibos component generator:

Now some of you may be wondering why you would use the extra struct level of ‘instance’ […]

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Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’ve been on a Mac (OSX) for a little while now and generally I’m having a nice time, except when it comes to reading some (but only some) blogs!
We all know that font sizes are different across browser and platform, but Firefox on a mac occasionally makes life a little difficult particularly when it comes […]

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