Archive for November, 2009

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ColdFusion Builder Performance

Posted: 19th November 2009 by Adam Presley in Development
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I don’t know about you guys, but I run into horrible performance issues as I use ColdFusion Builder, or most other Eclipse-based IDEs, as I use them more over time, add more projects, etc… After researching I’ve got a set of settings now that help a bit. These settings make garbage collection more aggressive, which [...]

Round Robin Display of Data – Java Style

Posted: 17th November 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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In my daily blog reading I came across Mr. Ray Camden’s blog post about rotating a grouped set of data in a “round robin” fashion. In his example he uses a multi-dimensional array, then uses ColdFusion to iterate over the array, copy the item to move, delete it, them push it to the end of [...]

Sorting a Complex Array of Products in PHP

Posted: 17th November 2009 by Adam Presley in Development, PHP
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I’ve blogged twice recently about sorting an array of structures in ColdFusion, using both pure CF, and dipping into Groovy. This time we’ll look at how we can easily do the same task in PHP. In this post I will take the same problem, a complex array containing a structure (in PHP, an associative array), [...]

In a previous post, Sorting Array of Structures with ColdFusion and Groovy, I talked about how one can use the Java Comparator interface to build a class that, when used with the Java Collections class, can sort an array of structures on multiple criteria. I demonstrated how to first compare the product ID, then the [...]

Nerdiest programming language ever!

Posted: 9th November 2009 by Adam Presley in Development
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Ok, this programming language I stumbled across has to be the nerdiest programming language ever conceived, sober or drunk! The creators of this language believe that humble whitespace characters have received a bad wrap, and as such pay homage to the lowest common characters, whitespace. For the nerdy programmer types such as myself, check it [...]

New Houston Texans Website Live!

Posted: 4th November 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion
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I work for a company that provides eCommerce applications for NFL and NCAA teams. Two days ago we released the new web application for the Houston Texans team. Written in ColdFusion 8, and powered by jQuery, the new application boasts a sleeker new design and makes use of some of the newest Web 2.0 goodness. [...]