Showing posts with label Blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog. Show all posts

Thursday 11 April 2013

A new (to me) ColdFusion blog appears on my radar

G'day:
This might be old news to everyone, but thanks to a tip from one of the CF people I "follow" (how stalky that sounds. Probably more so now that I point it out) on Twitter - Carol Hamilton -  I "discovered" a ColdFusion blog I was previously unaware of. It's by Summer S. Wilson, and called ColdFusion Beyond. I've read a coupla articles, and have found it pretty interesting and with an engaging writing style. Plus she mentioned a curious bug that has piqued my interest, except I've not investigated yet.

Check it out!

And... err... that's it.

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Adam

Monday 8 April 2013

Now with comments on the mobile version

G'day:
Whilst trying to coerce Google / Blogger / Disqus to cooperate and get the comments for this blog indexed, I discovered how to enable comments on the mobile view of the site. Cool.

Moving House... Mango Blog?

G'day:
I'm vexed that the comments on this blog are placed via Javascript, so Google doesn't pick them up. Some of the stuff in the comments is really good, and worthy of reread if Google would only index them. The Disqus people maintain Google does pick up stuff brought in via AJAX calls these days, but my brief research into seeing it in action on a Blogspot blog has drawn a blank. And certainly none of my comments have been spotted by Google (they've done a good job of the rest of the blog though!).

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Saturday 3 November 2012

103*

G'day:
(People in USA will probably not get the cricket score reference in the title of this one).

I just noticed I made it past 100 articles.  When I first started this, I had plans for about half a dozen articles, and was worried what I was gonna blather on about after that. I also thought my attention would wander fairly quickly and I'd get bored of writing stuff up.  It seems not so far.

I've still only got plans for about a dozen articles ahead of where I am now, but fortunately Adobe, Railo, and the CFML community manage to keep me intrigued / bemused enough to inspire me to have more stuff to write about every other day (or so).

Cool.

Anyway, cheers for sticking with me.

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Adam

Friday 2 November 2012

Comments

G'day:
Hey, a bunch of people - including myself - have been caught out by a quirk of how the Disqus commenting system that I'm using on this blog works.  If you want to get notifications of responses to any comments you make, you must make the comment via the "Register with Disqus" option (the next step after "Or pick a name..."), rather than the other "Connect with..." options like Twitter, Facebook etc.  I think this is inadequate, and I am doing two things about this:

  1. Hitting Disqus up to see if there's a way around it (although I've read a bunch of their docs and googled rather a lot, and it seems not), and if not;
  2. migrating the comments onto a different system.
But in the interim, if you want to know if anyone has responded to your comments, you need to use the Disqus option.  Sorry.

Righto.

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Adam

Wednesday 19 September 2012

RSS feeds again

G'day:
I blame Simon for this post ;-)

OK, so I've turned the full feeds back on, but I've made a coupla smaller feeds as well.  Here're the details (also to be found on the right-hand side bar):

The default feed is the one provided by BlogSpot by default, which lists the last n articles (I didn't count how many), and provides the full text.

The other two are provided by Feedburner, and just give the last ten full articles, or the first 500 chars of those articles, respectively.

I hope this covers all the bases for everyone (when I say "everyone" that's bigging-up the half dozen people who read this thing ;-)

I'll have a proper article up at some stage later today.  I meant to write something decent yesterday, but got bogged down on the Railo forums all afternoon, "politely discussing" [cough] some vagaries of Railo I'd found. This was basically the follow-up from that previous article I wrote about the member function methods Railo has for arrays (arrayFindAll(), arrayReverse() (RAILO-2070), and arraySort() (RAILO-2069: already fixed!)), and some back and forth on Railo's <cfdump>.  Inspiring stuff.

But first I need some breakfast (am not working today).

Righto.

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Adam

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Bloody RSS feed (and bloody stupid me)

G'day:
The guys @ CFHOUR pointed out to me that I had my RSS feedback configured incorrectly, in that it was spewing out each entire article instead of just the "above the fold bit".

Monday 13 August 2012

Communications policy

G'day
Just a quick note.

Please do email me about anything you read on the blog... the email address to use is cameron.adam+blog AT gmail.com (I dunno if I need to do that anti-spam thing?).

Bear in mind that I reserve the right to reproduce in part or in whole any emails you send me.  If I quote just a part of it, I will make sure not to alter the context of what you have said.

Unless you state otherwise, I will also cite your name (but, obviously, not your contact details!).  If you specifically ask not to be identified, I will respect that.

All in all though, please consider commenting on the blog rather than emailing direct, if whatever you want to say relates to something I've said on the blog.

Update:
I'm fed-up with inane "my favourite platform is better than your favourite platform" comments being posted against articles that have nothing to do with the comparison of various CFML platforms. In fact even when the article is actually about such comparisons, such comments are completely insightless, so just not worth making.  If you post stuff like that, you're a f*ckwit.  And I will delete the comment. So don't bother.

Cheers.

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Adam