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MailSlurper, Now with Paging and Sorting!

Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, Groovy
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A super quick update: I have updated MailSlurper’s administrative interface to now have paging and column sorting!! And in Grails this was super easy to do. I totally need to blog about this later. Meanwhile check it out and go download it. Cheers!!

Yummy Mail! MailSlurper Released!

Posted: 2nd September 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, Java
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That’s right, I said it. MailSlurper, the mostly useless mail SMTP server has been released! Not only does it slurp your mail into oblivion, but you can see those doomed emails in an administrative interface now. Woo hoo! Check out the How To guide and download it today!!

My Resume on ColdFusion + FW/1 + CouchDB

Posted: 31st August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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The last few days I decided I wanted to play around with Apache’s CouchDB, one of the more popular database engines in the No-SQL movement. For those who have never heard of it CouchDB is a database engine written in Erlang, and is an Apache Foundation project. One of the neatest things about CouchDB is [...]

My friend, Mr. Steve Good, approached me about a problem he was having where he needed to add a namespace to an HTML tag at runtime. Essentially he was parsing some dynamic HTML and wished to inject an additional namespace into the HTML declaration. Regular expressions to the rescue! The first test I ran was [...]

Here is a quick way to change the default author name when using JavaDoc comments in your Eclipse projects. Simply edit your eclipse.ini file found in the root directory where you placed Eclipse. I have Eclipse at /opt/eclipse, so my path would be /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini. Once editing this file add the following line and save. -Duser.name=Adam [...]

Finally, as requested, my code and slides for my Dallas TechFest 2010 presentation are available for download. If you missed it I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application (could be anything, PHP, JSP, Groovy + Grails) and incrementally spicing it up with jQuery. Click here to download the code and instructions on getting setup!

Merging Two ColdFusion Structs

Posted: 3rd August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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Here’s a quick little tidbit. My coworker Steve Good asked me if I knew of a quick way to merge two ColdFusion structures together, kind of like how jQuery has the $.extend() method. Well there is in fact a way to do this! And it’s super easy. Let’s say you have structure one that has [...]

Dallas TechFest 2010

Posted: 31st July 2010 by Adam Presley in General, White and Nerdy
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Dallas TechFest 2010. I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application and spicing it up incrementally using jQuery, the hottest JavaScript library around. The micro-conference; I suppose you can call it that, was a lot of fun. I attended some pretty good sessions, including MySQL [...]