November 17, 2009
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 [...]
October 25, 2009
Today I had to work on a bit of code that dealt with trying to tie in merchandising promotions against a shopping cart. This code I’m working with is pretty old, so it’s kind of like trying to make a paper airplane out of the Constitution. :/ My boss is working on one [...]
October 22, 2009
If you’ve ever had the need to quickly remove duplicate items in an array you might find yourself resorting to the old loop method. This involves looping over the input array, then further looping over a result array, checking to see if you’ve already inserted the input value, and if not, inserting it. That’s a [...]
July 11, 2009
One of my favorite ColdFusion bloggers, Mr. Ben Nadel, blogged the other day about creating a custom tag that would recursively traverse a ColdFusion structure and search for values that match a regular expression search criteria. I though this was a pretty cool idea and put his code in a test page to start testing [...]
August 17, 2007
Several months ago I purchased a new cell phone because I decided to join the cool people and jump on the media/internet/do it all phone bandwagon. With this in mind I purchased the Helio Ocean. Almost $300 cheaper than the iPhone this puppy has most of the best features found on a cell phone to [...]
February 28, 2007
So recently I’ve decided to delve into the world of Java development, or, more specifically, desktop Java development. So far I am liking it. My first task was to write a small application that would accept two dates as input and spit out a tab-separated report of first and last journal entries in a system, [...]