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Blue Dragon is Open source
Published: 3/26/08 10:27 AMby: Paul KukielSo by now we have all heard that BlueDragon is open source. What do I think about this? I think it’s good news, personally I will probably never look under the hood but if I needed to I can. I have never used Blue Dragon as I have always had access to dedicated CF box's but n... -
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twenty-eight days till we Cruise!
Published: 2/2/08 8:35 PMby: michelleWell the tickets have come and we started tanning. I'm getting pretty excited about our cruise. Our neighbors across the street are going with us (no kids!) and we have started planning what we are going to pack. ... -
Low Fat Recipe of the Week
Published: 1/21/08 12:39 PMby: Boot Camp Fitness Wichita Kansas(New Section!) Starting this week, we'll have a new low-fat, healthy recipe for you to try at home. This week's recipe comes from the National Pasta Association (yes, there apparently is one...): This makes 10 servings, so it's plenty for a family of 4 with a lot for leftovers at lunch! ... -
Calling OnSessionEnd from outside the Application.cfc to log out users
Published: 1/16/08 3:30 PMby: Dave ShuckOn many applications that I run across that have some type of user management, I often see users being logged out by just using StructClear(session). Although it is a bit of a strong arm approach, it is effective and somewhat appropriate in many applications. But what if you have some type of cle... -
Short night... but here we are on the new Spot!
Published: 1/12/08 10:13 AMby: Dave ShuckWe finally called it a night about 4am after flipping the switch to the new InstantSpot. There have been relatively few surprises so far, and the application is just purring along. Due to MUCH heavier caching in almost every nook and cranny of the application, we are using substantially more memory ... -
Twitter, Flex and Coldfusion
Published: 8/13/08 4:40 PMby: Paul KukielWell I have been playing with a new homepage and wrote a small section of code to display my twitter feeds using CFFEED. This is a great tag and I was able to in 4 lines of code read my feed and loop over it displaying it nicely. It was only a small step to port it into a flex widget wh... -
The Glycemic Index
Published: 8/7/08 12:36 AMby: TorinThe Glycemic Index, is a measurement of how quickly carbohydrates are metabolized. Carbohydrates such as white bread and cookies are metabolized much faster than carbohydrates like whole wheat bread and brown rice. You want to comsume mostly carbohydrates ... -
Tues WOD - WEEK 1, 04 Crucible
Published: 6/2/08 3:40 PMby: Boot Camp Fitness Wichita KansasWARM-UP: INTRO TO AB BUSTER - Cadets will complete each of the following exercises: - Flutterkick - Leg Lift - Toe Touches - Supine Bicycle - Supine Knee-Bender WORKOUT: No Breaks - Cadets take water as needed. Series 1 - Introduce Sprint Pyramids (2) Series 2 - Suicide Dr... -
St. Paddy's Day, Dallas, 2008
Published: 3/18/08 8:13 PMby: IkeAhh, St. Patrick's Day. Sure, it's not an 'Official' holiday, but it just so happens to be one of my favorites. Maybe that's because of my Irish heritage, or perhaps because in Dallas its one of the most celebrated events all year. Why does Dallas, TX, have such a great St. Pa... -
Bead sets
Published: 3/1/08 7:51 PMby: solidliquidfunction updategallery() { var so = new SWFObject("/swf/polaroid.swf", "polaroid", "100%", "600px", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("xmlURL","/gospot/member.PolaroidXml/id/204"); so.write("photos6DA2F4E7-A6A2-AEC2-9D3EC658A3776B6A"); } This site requires Flash Player 8.... -
JQuery Table Stripe
Published: 2/29/08 12:13 AMby: spiraldev<script> (document).ready( function(){ $('#jq_stripe_table').bind('click', function(){ $( "#jqueryTable tr:even[ @class != 'header' ]" ).each( function(){ var _f = $( this ); _f.addClass( "odd_row_... -
Yes ColdFusion fans... we *are* a ColdFusion site!
Published: 2/7/08 1:32 PMby: Dave ShuckI don't know how pervasive this point of confusion is, but today a regular face in the ColdFusion community was making some remarks in this comment thread and further on his InstantSpot site that InstantSpot is not a ColdFusion-based application, with the insinuation that he won't support our effort... -
5 InstantSpot invitations
Published: 2/7/08 8:26 AMby: Dave ShuckIf anyone is interested in creating an InstantSpot blog, we are opening up 5 new Spots today and would love to see some more ColdFusion peeps! Enter your invitation code on the main page. As soon as someone uses a code it's gone: k7Nh92Sw GEAGGH7B rs4DPq9a OUWKCEgG lepvefKv Ge... -
New pseudo-steampunk theme on my blog
Published: 2/1/08 11:13 AMby: Dave ShuckI have a new addiction playing with the style editor for my blog... I hate to call this a steampunk theme, simply for the inevitable flow of hardcore steampunk people coming here and telling me about how I don't know what steampunk is... so let's settle for pseudo steampunk shall we? Regardles... -
Installing Vmware Server 1.03 on PCLinuxOS 2007
Published: 2/1/08 10:10 AMby: Aaron LynchRecently I got the bug to try out a different Linux distribution on my laptop. I have been a die-hard Ubuntu user since I made the switch full time (haven't looked back since!), so after trying and failing to install Gentoo (guess I'm not L33T enough for that distro yet) I landed on PCLinuxOS 2007.... -
Free as in money, not as in pain - InstantSpot moves to ColdFusion 8
Published: 1/28/08 9:28 AMby: Dave ShuckAs I mentioned in several previous blog entries, on January 12 we re-launched InstantSpot after a complete bottom-to-top rewrite. In addition to a completely new code base, we took the unlikely choice of using Railo as our CFML processing engine. "Why?" you ask? (You aren't the first) ... -
God Bless Sgt. Jamie O'Dell Maugans
Published: 1/25/08 7:36 AMby: evBack in April of 2002 I lost a dear friend while he was serving his country in Afghanistan. Sergeant Jamie O'Dell Maugans lost his life while disarming ordinance his unit had found. You see Jamie joined the Army and EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) in 1997 not only because he "... -
I Had A Really Bad Day Last Wednesday
Published: 1/21/08 10:37 AMby: lwshuckMy Model Tech, Magic Extra was a great flying airplane but I had the control throws set way too high. I had been thinking of setting up a high rate and a low rate so I could continue to enjoy the high rate while I was doing aerobatics, but I would have low rate for a little slower respons... -
Hardy Heron: First Impressions
Published: 1/17/08 11:42 AMby: Aaron LynchRecently, Hardy Heron Alpha 3 was released so, being curious and an avid distro-installer I decided to download the iso and create a virtual machine to see what was new. I am currently running Ubuntu Feisty (one version older than Gutsy) since I encountered some behavior with Compiz-fusion th... -
Why I Use Instantspot aka My Decision to Use Not Just Write Software
Published: 1/14/08 6:29 AMby: samfarmerA little before I started this blog I realized I did not use web software for anything important to me. Sure, I used web mail (both GMail and Yahoo Mail) and paid bills online and read alot online but there was nothing really important to me that I used the web for. At the same time I had just star... -
Principles of Web Application Development
Published: 1/12/08 5:48 PMby: RobAnyone that's been building web applications (or doing anything else, for that matter) for any length of time has undoubtedly established a few operating principles that drive the way they work and the deliverables they produce. I have mine. Not too long ago, I sat down and made an effort to artic... -
Diggin it!
Published: 1/12/08 9:14 AMby: queenmckimFinally the genius of Dave and Aaron can be known. InstantSpot is more than awesome now!! I love it! Your hard work and dedication has really paid off. Now who am I going to invite... who are the 5 lucky ones? -
Final day of the original InstantSpot!
Published: 1/11/08 9:10 AMby: Dave ShuckIn the past 7 months, Aaron and I have completely rewritten InstantSpot from bottom to top. It was a much more clear and direct path than when we started with the original version in 06. In fact, we never even planned on networking the sites together in the first place, and adding blo... -
First Time Reader, Last Time Reader
Published: 1/8/08 12:12 PMby: RobI try to avoid reference posts, but the ex-paratrooper (peacetime) in me was struck by this. Articulating your own death must be an incredibly difficult thing to do on many levels. MAJ Andrew Olmsted did a hell of a job. I wish I'd known about his writing sooner.... -
ColdFusion 8: AutoSaving with cfAjaxProxy
Published: 8/27/07 6:04 AMby: samfarmerI've written before about using the new ColdFusion 8 JavaScript cfform libraries to autosave a form. Autosaving a form can also be accomplished using cfajaxproxy. Lets delve into the code: <cfajaxproxy cfc="Draft" jsclassname="DraftObj"> <s.cript type="text/javasc... -
My baby with her baby
Published: 7/10/07 7:52 PMby: michelleCassidy is turning into such a little girl. She is so cute with her dolls and necklaces. She loves girly things and I love that! Today we took a walk and she brought her baby. She was so proud. (and of course I was as well!) ... -
iPhone and Flash again
Published: 10/2/08 2:10 PMby: Paul KukielAs I will shortly be in the market for a new phone the re-emerging rumours of flash on the iPhone sound good to me. I've heard some criticism about the iPhone but I still feel that I want one regardless of the issues and hearing more about Adobe and Apple working on a solution ... -
Public premiere for new Bond film
Published: 9/10/08 10:11 PMby: wowlive1000wowtiiQuigoWriteAd(757767, 1348046, 240, 190, -1); In Hollywood, a tattoo is worth a thousand words. So even though Lindsay Lohan remains coy about her rela tionship with deejay Samantha Ronson, their matching tattoos say i... -
Inevitable - Mobile Marketing
Published: 9/9/08 11:50 PMby: AlfredIt is inevitible. Mobile marketing provides unparalleled exposure to products and services and the growth of this communications channel is not slowing anytime soon. Tweens, teens and 20-somethings view their phone as "an extension of themselves". It is a part of their identity. 68% of global re... -
Adding Clickable links and TextArea.html
Published: 9/6/08 11:56 AMby: Paul KukielI really wanted clickable links in my Twitter pod and I saw how easy Steve did it so I used his really nice regex. As per my original design I really wanted my Twitter feed to be a bit less generic so I remove my name from the start of each post and add a date stamp each entry looping over the... -
Perception is Reality - Web Development
Published: 8/19/08 11:21 PMby: AlfredThe phrase "Perception is reality" is truer today than ever. With the evolution of social technologies, what is posted online one day is reality in many minds the next. A well planned and executing brand can be tarnished by one bitter customer with a blog. It is a struggle for both Fortune 500 com... -
Be A Couch Potato Without Gaining Weight
Published: 8/17/08 11:50 AMby: TorinI love my TV. I watch it all the time, and maybe you do too. Sure, we've all heard it before a million times: TV is bad, it's a waste of time, etc. But what about when you come home from the gym or work and you're exhausted and need your rest? Chances are the first thing you think... -
Carbs = GOOD
Published: 8/14/08 7:52 PMby: TorinWay too many people, especially those trying to lose weight, cut out carbs from their diet and immediately call them bad. WRONG. Carbs are an essential for any diet. Carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy. So it would make sense to have a fair amount of carbohydrates ... -
Code View
Published: 8/14/08 11:23 AMby: Paul KukielI tried to get my code view working for my Twitter Pod but it seams there is a bug in Flex 3 that wont let me specify the code view source. Every time I change it Flexbuilder changes it back when it exports the release build. Here is the code in code block: CF: <cfcomponent output=... -
Water While Eating (don't)
Published: 8/11/08 6:27 PMby: TorinWe all know, (or should know) that water is crucial for both survival, and nutrition. Water has no nutritional content. When you're drinking water during your meals, water will DILUTE your food, causing less nutrient absorbtion. Milk, however, is fine with your meals. Your body wi...
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