Viewing by month: March 2007
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 26
Posted on Mar 26, 2007
Another week that in terms of quanitity was light on the releases (one new utility project and three updates), though the Transfer changes are significant. However, the steady stream of open-source related tutorials continues.
Update to Pulling Flickr RSS Feed Images
Posted on Mar 21, 2007
Ok, so no sooner do I go and write my first Edge article than Flickr goes and makes the code I present break by changing their naming convention on newly uploaded images. First, this was first pointed out to me by Glenn Gervais who provided a different solution. Basically, it appears that on newly uploaded images the auto-generated names now differ in more than the _o or _m in the filename, so it can't be achieved with a simple replace(). I decided that since the "description" field returned by Ray's RSS.cfc has the medium sized image within it, I could just use some regex to strip it out like so:
<cfinvoke component="rss" method="getEntries" returnvariable="pics" xmlData="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=74682459@N00&format=atom" /> <cfset randPic = randRange(1,pics.recordCount) /> <cfsavecontent variable="regex"><img.*/></cfsavecontent> <cfset findImage = REFindNoCase(regex,pics.description[randPic],1,true) /> <cfoutput>#mid(pics.description[randPic],findImage.pos[1],findImage.len[1])#</cfoutput>
This will actually output a random image from the feed since it strips the entire image tag, which is what I use on my about page.
Add dynamic content to your site with RSS and ColdFusion - Adobe Edge
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
As Peter Bell already noted, I had my first article for Adobe Edge published. It officially gets sent out tomorrow, but you can read it as part of the March issue by going here. The code uses an updated version I contributed back to Ray Camden of his RSS.cfc to read in RSS feeds to generate dynamic content on a simple site. The article is geared towards beginners, but might be of interest to anyone (and includes my first forays into Captivate demos).
On a slight tangent, with all the talk lately about promoting CF in the broader community, it would be great if people helped get the word out about the article. I would like to see more ColdFusion content in places like the Edge newsletter which reaches over one million subscribers, most of whom probably have little or no ColdFusion experience. However, that won't happen unless the interest justifies it (which I suspect in the past it hasn't). So, at the risk of sounding blatantly self-promotional, help me get the word out and drive some visits to the article.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 19
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
Only two new projects released this week. However, if you didn't hear about ColdFire this week, then you might be interested to know that Apollo was released today or whatever other ubiquitous news has been out recently.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 12
Posted on Mar 12, 2007
An excess of exclamation pointed titles this week must mean with had a busy week ;) Ok, so one new project and 7 updates this week. Enjoy!!!!