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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 'Development' Category

My, but it’s been quiet in here!

Friday, September 19th, 2008

So, it’s been several months since my last blog post, but I’m back and will try not to leave it as long before the next post.
I’ve moved on from the loyalty company I was contracted to at the beginning of the year. I then worked for an online dating company for a few months, adding [...]

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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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Subversive Development

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Here's one for the Prog fans!
As a developer, you sometimes get to have fun during the long hours coding by using silly words as variable names or adding funny comments that the end users never see, but yesterday I surpassed myself!
I was helping a fellow developer complete a system which automatically built a form from [...]

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