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Dan Mackey On ColdFusion Development
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ColdFusion, Java and DHTML development Blog. Dan is owner and Administrator of CFTagStore.com and works for an Application Development Company called Digital Crew. My interests cover all areas of programming in multiple languages with a particular interest in Internet Technologies.
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Getting JSP files compiling in Railo

As part of the code samples we are writing for the Teamwork Project Manager API, I needed to get JSP pages compiling. As I have switched mainly to Railo for all my ColdFusion development, I wanted to...

29 apr 10

Adobe AIR Flex 3 HTTP Basic Authentication

I am a week into Flex 3 development building an AIR app to test the new API for Teamwork Project Manager and thought I would share an issue with HTTP Basic Authentication that I ran into. To be hones...

09 aug 09

CompareHTMLCompon ent : JAR to compare two HTML fragments

After my initial post yesterday CFX_CompareHTML ColdFusion HTML diff custom tag I got quite a bit of feedback and one of the items raised was that some people dont like CFX tags and I should use...

15 jan 09

CFX_CompareHTML ColdFusion HTML diff custom tag

Following on from my last post I have released Version 1 of my ColdFusion HTML Diff Custom Tag, CFX_CompareHTML. When we wrote Teamwork Project Manager one of my jobs was to compare versions of ...

14 jan 09

Railo 3 : Adding Java CFX Tags

I have a small project that I am working on that needs a Java custom tag that I'm writing. I need this running on ColdFusion 7/8 and Railo 3. Adding the CFX to CF is fine and I had no problems, excep...

07 jan 09

CFOrgChart : Download Available

Just a quick post as I havent posted in ages due to the considerable committments from Teamwork Project Manager My CFOrgChart demo has gained a huge amount of interest from people and I have unexpect...

07 nov 08

3G iPhone Push Technology may be the answer to apps running in background

I upgraded to an iPhone 3G recently and love it. I am doing this one legally and have not Jailbroken it so I dont have all the cool 3rd party apps from Installer App. The main app I miss is an IM ser...

13 aug 08

FeedDemon is now free. I'm happy and dismayed at the same time

I was checking my RSS feeds (using a paid version of FeedDemon) and noticed on Nick Bradbury's blog that FeedDemon (and all newsGators non-enterprise RSS products) are being released free. While...

10 jan 08

Silverlight Vs Flex - Good article from a developers point of view

I found a very interesting article today on a subject that is of particular interest to me at the moment. I am in the need of a good gantt chart component (for integration with www.teamworkpm.net) an...

07 jan 08

Allow people to IM you from your blog - no software required!

As I have posted before, Live Support is something that interests me greatly and I have been constantly on the look out for a good solution. A new addition to the Windows Live Messenger family o...

15 nov 07

Impressive Adobe AIR Application - Google Analytics Suite

Once again I have been impressed by AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime. I can see massive advantages of an app environment like this even if I have some requirements that are not available...

06 oct 07

ColdFusion Powered Teamwork Project Manager Released

We got there! After a gruelling few days hard work and an extremely long day yesterday, Topper and myself finally hit our launch milestone and Teamwork Project Manager went live Already the feedback ...

04 oct 07

Very impressive and affordable live support application

We all have pet applications. The apps that interest us so much as programmers, users and benefiters that we want to write our own. Its that ingrained thinking of a programming mind that you want to ...

25 sep 07

Pandoras Box Running In Ireland Again!

Its been a while looking at Pandoras Box seeing as access to Ireland (and Europe) was cut off. I have got a shed load of emails from people but there was nothing I could do. This really bugged me and...

18 sep 07

Securing Your RSS Feeds Using Basic HTTP Authentication and ColdFusion

We are working on a project at the moment that requires secure RSS feeds. We need it to be secure in both browsers and Feed readers such as FeedDemon so decided that Basic HTTP Authentication was the...

02 aug 07

Navicat 8 for MySQL Released

We have just upgraded our copies of the fantastic Navicat 8 in the office from version 7 and first impressions have left me disappointed. The upgrade process was fast and easy and I had it installed ...

02 aug 07

Setting IIS Maximum Connections To More Than 10

Every project I am working on, I test against 5 different browsers: Safari, Mozilla, IE7, Opera and IE6 on the same machine. Since Safari has entered the browser lineup, I have been receiving an anno...

29 jun 07

Apple Safari 3 PC Version Beta 3

I am so happy today! Last night I found out Safari 3 was released for Public Beta for both Mac and PC. Download Link : http://www.apple.com/safari/do wnload/ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5...

12 jun 07

Initial thoughts on Apollo

Just back from Edinbourgh and a load of emails and blog comments to catch up on tonight but something that sprung up out of necessity was Adobe Apollo, specifically FineTune Desktop Player. Since Pan...

08 may 07

Pandora Shuts Its Doors To Non-US listeners

I was guessing the day would come when I would no longer be able to enjoy www.pandora.com I dont know how this is going to affect development of Pandoras Box but hopefully the service will resume for...

03 may 07

Teamwork CMS nearly ready to be launched as a free product

Over the last 7 years we have been developing and improving our in-house ColdFusion based content management system christened Teamwork CMS. Every website, every application and every tool we de...

05 apr 07

37 Signals Getting Real - A fantastic read

Picked up the book Getting Real from the great and fast Lulu.com this week and devoured it this weekend. What a fantastic read....I only wish it was longer! Everything in the book is worth ...

26 feb 07

Handy MySQL - ORDER BY FIELD

Had a slight problem today and found a neat solution. My problem was I wanted to sort properties by status and date added but needed the status to show in a priority fashion. For example, I wanted th...

08 feb 07

ColdFusion Application Servers

In the early days of our company any dynamic parts of our work were performed using home built C++ CGI executables. We used ISAPI filters and Peter blew me away one day when he wrote a flat-file data...

07 feb 07

Annoying IE7 bug with window.opener.doc ument.location

I hate these types of bugs. I have just wasted an hour of my day trying to figure this out. It works in Mozilla as expected and I havent tried IE6 but IE7 threw a strange error. I was trying to check...

25 jan 07

Two ColdFusion Things I Love

REQUEST Scope Query Of Queries Lately, while working on new interfaces for UDI - Digital Crews Database Interface custom tag (written by Peter www.cftopper.com) I was in the need for a simple method ...

24 jan 07

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