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Rusty Badger

Sometimes It’s Just Not Worth Gnawing Through The Straps!

About Rusty Badger

Random scribblings from Cliff Pearson.
ColdFusion Developer, Musician, Gadget fanatic and Geek!

Archive for the 'ColdFusion' Category

Custom Tags are your friend … sometimes.

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Actually there’s nothing wrong with custom tags – I’m quite a fan and have used them quite a bit during my time as a CF developer.  The problem in this particular instance is the time it’s taking to implement them.
I’m working on some code that determines the IP address of a given piece of equipment.  [...]

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Becoming A Oracle DBA

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

In my latest role, as well as CF development, I have been asked to adopt more of a DBA role, as there is only one other guy here, who’s done everything for several years (so he probably has a few bad habits that I’ll need to deal with – we all do, don’t we?) and [...]

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My Development Toolkit

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I was asked by a junior developer I’ve recently started training which tools I used regularly when developing, so I decided to document this information here, in case it’s useful to anyone else.  I have lots more software installed than this, but I’m only going to concentrate on those tools I use for my development [...]

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The German ColdFusion User Group proudly presents the first european ColdFusion Camp in the conference center ‘Orbis’ in Oberschleißheim near Munich.
Speakers on day one include:

Andy Allan
Mark Drew
Gert Franz
Peter Haak
Harry Klein
Luis Majano
Darren Pywell

For a fee of €35, including food, this is a steal!
Day two is given over to training and the subjects being taught are:

Advanced ColdFusion [...]

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Hackproofing ColdFusion

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

While searching to fix a CFPOP issue, I stumbled across this link, which may prove useful for someone: The Only Way to Stop a Hacker Is to Think Like One

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It Works On My Machine!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Life as a developer can be fun.
It can also be arduous, thankless and stressful, but for the most part it's fun!
Especially when you get an award! B->
I was awarded one of these today:

..by my colleague, Kola – thanks, Dude!

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ValueList Is STILL Broken??

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I have an odd problem – I'm trying to accomplish something in CF which requires me to loop through a list of values, performing a query for each iteration and using the passed value as part of the query name. I know there are various reasons why this isn't considered a good idea, performance-wise, [...]

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