Monthly Archives: June 2007
- June 22, 2007
- OT: I HATE ads on CFDJ
<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 [...]
- June 17, 2007
- Inspirational posts from the community
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 [...]
- June 14, 2007
- Using variables.instance inside your components
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:<cfcomponent
displayname="sample"
output="false"
hint="A bean which models the form."><!—
PROPERTIES
—>
<cfset variables.instance = StructNew() />Now some of you may be wondering why [...]
- June 13, 2007
- Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox
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 [...]