Tunnel vision

I was working on a bug today and I’d gone over it and over it without any resolution. Everything was working as expected for me and I just couldn’t reproduce it. And then I realized what my colleague was doing. I’m not sure he could hear the sound of my hand smacking my [...]

Porting an FB4/MVC ColdFusion Application to ASP.NET

We’re building a prototype application based on an existing CF app, a move primarily driven by the need for a more refined/elegant front end as well as the need to command greater ‘respect’ (for want of a better word). Let’s face it: an ASP.NET app written in C# is seen by most business [...]

CFML highlighting for iG:Syntax Hiliter WordPress Plugin

I tried a bunch of code formatting plugins for WordPress and none seemed to work very well. Either they were prone to errors, or they didn’t have enough language support. This plugin: iG:Syntax Hiliter is based on the GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter which supports a bunch of different languages…all but ColdFusion it [...]

Troubleshooting the Migration of Verity collections from CF 4.5 to CF 7

I spent quite a while trying to figure out why a collection that was migrated from 4.5 to 7 was producing different search results. My first assumption was that when the collections were moved, they were just not re-indexed properly, or that they were corrupt. So, I purged, created and re-indexed them all…which did [...]

Drudge Report pop-ups

Don’t deny that you check drudge every so often. The pop-unders can make you nuts though. Most blockers don’t stop them, but here’s a little tweak to Firefox that will stop them: type in ‘about:config’ in the address bar, then right-click anywhere in the window below. Select ‘New > Integer’ Then enter ‘privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins’ [...]