Archive for July, 2008

Coldfusion Soundex Algorithm Component

Posted: 18th July 2008 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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Although this has been done a million times I took a little time (wasting time mostly) to cook up a simple ColdFusion component that implements a basic soundex algorithm (see http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm for more info on the reference I used). The component provides a simple interface to add “dictionary” items, and compare subject text against the [...]

Here’s a great read on the use, or perhaps misuse, of the terms “Strategy” and “Tactics”. I found it to be a stimulating look at how the use of terms over time tends to define them, even if their definition is actually more diverse in practice. Anyway, take a look at the article here.

ColdFusion Race Conditions?

Posted: 2nd July 2008 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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One of the things I’ve been struggling with at work lately is related to bizzare ColdFusion errors. Essentially what I am seeing is a page that normally works just suddenly throw an error stating that a specific variable cannot be accessed as an object because it is of type java.lang.String. The problem with this is [...]