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Code Notes
These are individual samples of coding problems and solutions, used primarily for personal reference and peer review. There is little exposition here.
- ColdFusion "FormatName" function
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CF gives us FormatDate, FormatTime & FormatNumber out of the box. Here's a little function to provide a similar "FormatName" feature too.
- View SQL Objects with CFML
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Leveraging a ColdFusion datasource connection to view MS-SQL compiled object definitions - when you don't have access to an IDE.
- Mura CMS - Advertisers
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The Mura open-source Content Management System has Advertising Management built-in. Here's a quick way to list all the sponsors and their logos on a single page.
- Flex Stylesheets
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I've built you a Flex app and sent you a stylesheet to customize it. Now what?
- QR Code generation from OpenBD
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OpenBD (Blue Dragon), Railo and Lucee are open source versions of CFML (Adobe's ColdFusion version is licensed). Here's how to dynamically generate QR Codes using the zxing Java library.
- Flash Forms and IE's Unspecified Error
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Internet Explorer throws a "Unspecified Error" error dialog box when working with (Macromedia's old) Flash forms.
- ComboBox Background Color
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Styling the background color of the newer Flex ComboBox.
- Roundcube & MarkAsJunk2
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Roundcube is an open source IMAP email (ie Webmail) client, for which developers have authored various plugins. Often they work fine...
- SQL Handle Error
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SQL Server can't find a prepared statement with handle... huh??
- Oracle to SQL Server via ColdFusion
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ColdFusion template for copying a simple Oracle database table over to Microsoft SQL Server.