Monthly Archives: September 2007
- September 28, 2007
- Caveat when calling components from onSessionEnd()
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 [...]
- September 28, 2007
- jQuery and SWFObject conflict
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: When the ‘submitButton’ was clicked, this function was not firing [...]
- September 27, 2007
- Creating a custom FarCry login page
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’ [...]
- September 27, 2007
- ColdFire 1.0 released
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 [...]
- September 25, 2007
- Google analytics AIR app
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 [...]