Notepad++ the best lightweight CF editor

Every developer needs a trusty text editor that does more than just Notepad - something that’s lightweight, loads fast, has good searching features and some syntax highlighting. Eclipse is indispensible, but there are plenty of times I just can’t be bothered firing it up - or if it’s open, the file I want to edit [...]

Mango blogging - more choice is what we want!

I only just stumbled on the Mango blogging engine via a post on fusiongrokker - it’s great to see another CF powered blogging engine out there. I’ve played with BlogCFC in the past but didn’t quite meet my requirements for various reasons.
When I re-established this blog, I went with Wordpress which was evolved into a [...]

CFQueryParam Tips

Usually I don’t unneccessarily link off to other blog entries that are syndicated on the same aggregator, but this post at Rabidgadfly regarding the use of LIKE and IN and CFQUERYPARAM is just too useful to pass up.
I was just about to look into how to pass params LIKE and IN params via CFQUERYPARAM and [...]

ColdFusion syntax highlighting in Wordpress

So this is a code blog and every good with a lot of code needs a good code plugin. A friend put me onto a nice little plugin for WP called SyntaxHighlighter Plus - it leverages off a googlecode project that highlights for a whole swag of languages all in javascript. Pretty slick.
Unfortunately there is [...]

Wordpress 2.6 rocks

Ok I’ve installed Wordpress 2.6 that was just released today. For only a minor version number increment there are some pretty slick new features bundled in.
Google Gears support is included and while it’s not there to support offline blogging (yet?) it does speed up the admin by caching a lot of javascript locally - nice!
A [...]

Are you a remote desktop fiend? RoyalTS is your saviour.

If you’re anything like me, you’re firing up remote desktop about a thousand times a day, and more often than not, two or three terminal windows to different servers.
In our production environment we have 4 (actually 5) servers deployed - web1, web2, encoding, db and storage - and keeping track of those RDP sessions can [...]

Farcry 5 just keeps getting better…

Farcry has been going for quite a long time now. It’s a huge credit Geoff and the guys at Daemon that they have not only maintained but continually improved upon the Farcry framework for so many years.

Version 5 has just been released (I have been using Farcry for various projects since v2 - I think [...]