My last post on here was way back in July and I should be ashamed of myself. I start every year with the hope that I’ll be an amazing blogger and the internet will adore me, I will score fans and forever be admired. As I get older, I realise that this is not likely [...]
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Donnie Bachan
Google’s recent UI changes get a +1
I finally had a chance to look at Google+ tonight and in all honesty it is everything I expected it to be. It isn’t much at the moment since being on a social network without many friends is like being at a rock concert by yourself. However, the user interface really appeals to me. In [...]
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Column formats in CFSpreadsheet
I really like the spreadsheet functions added to ColdFusion 9. It makes my life so much easier but I discovered an annoyance with the spreadsheetFormatColumn function today. It would seem that you have to set the column formats after you add data to a spreadsheet. If you attempt to set it before calling spreadsheetAddRows it [...]
Can Delicious be resurrected?
I was a big fan of Delicious because keeping track of all the sites that interest me is a hard task. The problem with this service though is that it is difficult to easily access the information unless you install a plugin on every browser that you use. This is even more of a problem [...]
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Railo 3.2 + Tomcat + Mac Snow Leopard + Permission Denied
I’ve finally started playing with Railo and tried installing it on my Mac with Snow Leopard installed. I wasn’t able to get it to run initially but had to make two quick changes to get it running: Give the current user (the user under which you are currently logged in) Read + Write access to [...]
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