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Archive for September, 2007

As most ColdFusion developers know, you cannot reference ‘application’ scoped variables directly in Application.cfc’s onSessionEnd() method. Instead you need to use the ApplicationScope parameter. Notes from the docs:
You must use the ApplicationScope parameter to access the Application scope. You cannot reference the Application scope directly; for example, use Arguments.ApplicationScope.myVariable, not Application.myVariable. Use a named lock […]

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jQuery and SWFObject conflict

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I experienced some strange behaviour today when building a site which was using jQuery and SWFObject. Our Flash files were loading ok and 99% of the javascript (using jQuery) was working fine.
The problem was found only in IE (sound familiar?) with the following code:

$(document).ready(function(){

$(’#submitButton’).click(function(){

When the ’submitButton’ was clicked, this function was not firing in IE. […]

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Creating a custom FarCry login page

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

The FarCry security model is really very cool. You can of course setup users within the ‘admin’ area and assign those users to groups (and those groups can have different permissions), but you can also authenticate via Active Directory or LDAP etc.
One thing you can also do with ease is secure particular navigation ‘nodes’ of […]

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ColdFire 1.0 released

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Yesterday there was some news from Ray and Nathan Mische regarding the 1.0 release of ColdFire, Nathan has a great write up here.
From RIAForge:
ColdFire is an extension to FireBug. It provides debug information in a FireBug tab as opposed to the bottom of the page. This lets you debug and keep your site layout intact, […]

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Google analytics AIR app

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

An interesting AIR app has been released in Beta for Google analytics.
From the author:
The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics.
You can even export the data to PDF, XLS […]

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