Cutter's Crossing

The dreaded BlogCFC curse. After 30 days without a post you see the message 'Sorry, no post' (more or less).

I'm busy. Way busy. Several side projects, fun at work with servers, and a few hush-hush things...I'm beat. I can't go into a ton of particulars on anything, but there are things coming. I am working on a custom asset manager written in ColdFusion and Ext, that I'll be open sourcing, but it's taken a side burner for now. Ext is a blast, and I hope to continue to create and release Ext custom components, but I will always be using ColdFusion for my server-side code examples.

Speaking of code, I still owe everyone my sample code from my WebManiacs Presentation. With all this activity, I am way behind the eight ball on rolling some of this up. I hope to get it out sometime within the week. I'm also hoping to get a chance, soon, to re-record the presentation. I had done it once before WebManiacs, for the Nashville ColdFusion User Group, but the recording was a wash. We'll try to get that scheduled soon, and get it out there for everyone.

And, speaking of NCFUG, Mark Mandel is presenting Thursday night, July 31^st on Transfer. Details can be found on the NCFUG Meeting page.

That's all for now. I'll try not to let it go so long between posts this month.

This entry was posted on July 30, 2008 at 1:07 AM and has received 3069 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

I've been so head down, on several projects professional and personal, that I only just noticed a few weeks worth of error messages in Cutter's Crossing's email box. A very odd error about missing a captcha-hash-variable kinda thing (don't have one handy). So, I get my next door co-worker to pull up my blog and ask him to post a comment, any comment. Low and behold, in place of the captcha there was a broken image icon. That wonderful clear box with the red X going through it, that we all know and love. Simply reinitializing BlogCFC took care of the issue, but I realize I've missed out on valuable feedback.

If you're reading this, and you tried to comment earlier, please try again, and I'm sorry for the trouble. I'll try to keep a more vigilant eye.

In the meantime, I'm looking for some really outstanding (public) examples of a drag-and-drop page content editor interface. Some experimenting with some of the Ext (2.1) sample code says I should be able to do it, but I'm looking to see some clear cut, and tested, solutions. BTW, if you haven't looked at the extended examples that they put out with the 2.1 update, then you should. There's some very nice stuff in there, particularly dealing with layouts.

This entry was posted on April 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM and has received 3245 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

OK, if I had hair I would have pulled it out by now. For several months I've been getting this error from BlogCFC, but I can't track the true source to remove the offender:

Script Name: /rss.cfm?mode=full&mode2=cat&catid=9856ECF2-3048-71C2-17879EB46D54D46F Detail: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x19) was found in the element content of the document.

I can't find this character anywhere. No clues at all. But, it's playing havoc with some RSS readers, apparently, and loading my inbox. So, anybody have some suggestions how I might find this?

This entry was posted on January 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM and has received 3203 views. There are currently 3 comments. Print this entry.

OK, last night I upgraded to BlogCFC 5.9, which Ray released the other day. Pretty heavy update, with over 30 file changes in the readme, but very smooth when using WinMerge (thanks to Mark Drew for that little tip).

One item of interest, though. Ray mentions in the readme that he's stopped logging the changes in the document headers, stating that it's redundant to place them there and within the readme doc. He also states "I decided I'd skip that since BlogCFC 6 will have new files." I also noticed, while reviewing the changes, that he has code in place for checking the server version. CF 8 specific changes on the way? We'll have to wait and see.

This entry was posted on October 14, 2007 at 12:44 PM and has received 2692 views. There are currently 4 comments. Print this entry.

OK, well I've made the jump to BlogCFC 5.5.002. Can I tell you that it is almost impossible to keep up with Ray Camden. The man is a fiend. I have no idea how he finds the time to manage his job, family, side work, and tons of open source projects. The guy is truly amazing. Thanks again, Ray, for everything you do for the CF Community.

As some of you can tell, I will have to look into a few changes now. I'm using the 'liquid' layout here, so some adjustments will be needed to handle the graphic at the top of the page. But that, my friend, is for another time.

I'm also going to incorporate a new 'about' pod that Charlie Arehart has sent to me. We've been going back and forth in email on some common interest stuff, and he pointed out to me that I don't have any sort of 'identifier' on my blog. This new pod will be great. Thanks a lot Charlie!

This entry was posted on October 23, 2006 at 9:29 AM and has received 3329 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.