Category Archives: ColdFusion

October 27, 2011
Twitter bootstrap – modal not working in firefox

Quick heads up for those having issues getting the modal window in the twitter bootstrap to work in firefox, I had a problem where the overlay would show but not the actual modal window content. Seems there is a problem if you’re using animation (fade etc). See here for more information. For now we use [...]

August 17, 2011
Customising search results from google cse

Google custom search engine (cse) is pretty cool, in fact it’s very cool. Within minutes you can have the ability to search your entire site all with a snippet of code! And for a nominal fee you can deliver these results without ads We use google cse for most of our sites but the other [...]

July 1, 2011
FarCry – grouping formtool category items– also posted in Farcry

A new project we’re working has the need to categorise each new content object, for this we use the built in FarCry category/keyword formtool. By default the render type is a multi-select tree, I wanted a single select dropdown. Luckily formtools makes this oh so simple. Note that I’ve set the dropdown size to 1 [...]

June 30, 2011
FarCry Tip – remove install directory– also posted in Farcry

After you install FarCry you must make sure to delete the “install” folder(s) that FarCry leaves behind. Otherwise it’s possible for anyone to access the installer wizard again from your production website, and as it’s the installer they don’t even need to be logged in to cause real havoc. Not good. By default, as of [...]

May 31, 2011
Mura – overriding dspCrumblistLinks– also posted in Mura, Railo

Like most CMS solutions out there, Mura CMS gives you some cool hooks to override core functionality. See the developer guides for more information. I’ve created a repository on github to store any customisations or extensions that could be cherry picked for use in any Mura app. First up was a super simple one for [...]