There are great tools out there for debugging your CSS in Firefox, but IE can be a lot harder to deal with. This is more of a self note, to remember that there are a few tools out there to help you in IE life. The developer toolbar for ie6 and ie7 its just about […]
A colleague today told me that using nvarchar(max) in SQL server could be more beneficial than ntext because you can do full text searching and like commands on the field. Technet has this to say: “Variable-length Unicode character data. n can be a value from 1 through 4,000. max indicates that the maximum storage size […]
Having ColdFusion run on the new Windows Server 2008 server under IIS 7 is pretty easy, however you have to have the right components installed. Windows 2008 uses lots of routines from Vista, so installs are really easy, and in this version, instead of installing everything, and then disabling the features, 2008 simpy doesnt install […]
We have been slowly migrating databases from SQL 2000 to 2005, and as we do so we find that the Full Text Catalog isn’t brought over into 2005. This causes lots of issues, one being backup stops working. So how do you get rid of them? To find out what tables are indexed in the […]
A colleague asked me today about how he could dump out a jQuery object and find out what was in it. There are 2 ways I know of right now. 1) AjaxCFC contains a js file call dump.js and dDumper.js include these in your page, then use The output is appended to the bottom of […]
SQL server has always had difficulty with its backup and maintenance plans in removing old backups. Until now this has been a major issue on some of our servers, each month someone has to go through the backup folder and remove the old Transaction Log and Full Backup folders. No longer – Robocopy to the […]
I have been working hard on a new site, and having put Adwords up I no longer want to see my hits on the Google Analytics reports because it all just gets in the way. Analytics gives you 2 ways of excluding traffic using the filters. The first is by IP Address, and the second […]
I thought this article from InfoQ was worth bringing to your attention, as it was an interesting read for me, about the misconceptions Adobe come across when talking to people about Flex. We are currently a way down the path of getting one of our clients to embrace Flex, and then get the skills to […]
We just struck this problem because our developers use ColdFusion 8 on their local machines, then we deploy on ColdFusion 7. This is so we can fully test our apps on 8 before rolling it to production. We don’t really run into any issues, but here is one I just found. This issues is a […]
