Viewing by month: April 2006
My Interview on the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast
Posted on Apr 10, 2006
The latest version of the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast was released today and the entire podcast is dedicated to ColdFusion open-source. Matt Woodward and Peter Farrell have been doing a great job with these podcasts, and in this episode, they graciously decided to interview me (thanks again guys...hopefully I don't sound like a babbling fool). Peter also released his "open-source surprise", Lyla CAPTCHA for ColdFusion which I will be adding to the open-source list shortly (and from the details Peter gave me, this sounds like a top-notch CAPTCHA tool, so check it out).
ColdFusion Debugging Performance Hit
Posted on Apr 07, 2006
This is one of those things that you realize and it seems rather obvious after the fact, but I never bothered to think through. Based upon my experience today it appears that using <cfsetting showdebugoutput="false"> hides the debugging but does not impact the performance hit you take when running debugging. This becomes obvious when you are running Model-Glue and/or Reactor. With debugging turned on, my page response was excrutiatingly slow. Adding the cfsetting had little to no impact on that. However, with debugging turned off in the ColdFusion administrator, the performance was totally reasonable (especially considering that both Reactor and Model-Glue were running in their respective development modes). Anyway, like I said, this seemed obvious to me once I realized it, but I figured might save someone some grief.
Custom Sorting a Flash Form DataGrid
Posted on Apr 05, 2006
This post comes via a guest blogger (and friend), Shannon Hicks of Webapper.
I found tons of posts across the web on how to do custom sorts of a dataGrid in Flash, but nothing about how to do it within CFFORM. It took me a little while to figure it out based on the Flash instructions, so I figured I'd write up a quick how-to.
Open-Source Software Freedom Conservancy
Posted on Apr 03, 2006
PC Magazine is reporting on an announcement made at LinuxWorld - Boston regarding the establishment of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The goal of the Conservancy is to offer administrative and legal assistance to all member projects (current members include BusyBox, SurveyOS, uCLibc and Wine).
New Krugle Demo
Posted on Apr 03, 2006
Many weeks ago, I signed up for the Krugle beta with limited knowledge about the site other than it was going to be a open-source code search engine. Apparently I was not alone. Today I received my first contact from them, and they claim that over 35,000 people signed up for the beta - thus explaining why I wasn't one of the lucky 1,000 selected.
While the email says that invites will be sent out between April 5 to April 14th, they have also posted a new demo going over some of the features. Not surprisingly, the site looks as though it will contain alot of nifty "web 2.0" (ick, I know I hate the term too...) features, and actually looks much more impressive than merely a standard search tool. It allows you to tag and comment lines/portions of code pages. It also has some interesting tabs that display the code in it's context within the project it is a part of as well as in the context of all the code krugle indexes. Suffice it to say, the site should be interesting, and I am really looking forward to test-driving it soon (hopefully).