The Mach-II Primer has a new home
A few weeks ago, Peter J Farrell from the Mach-II team asked if I would contribute the Mach-II Primer to the project's main Wiki. It took me about 30 seconds to agree.
Yo Adrian! / OOCF 7.3.1: How does my bean get a new ID when calling Create()?
Justin Treher asks: "Yo, Adrian. I see that you are using autonumber for your tables. Whenever you run the CREATE method in the DAO you are just returning true. How does the application get the ID?"
The ACME Guide: 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Edition - Part 5
Now that our ACME stack has been installed, let's setup some isolated development areas. To do this, we need to create one or more Virtual Hosts in Apache and setup some local domains.
The ACME Guide: 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Edition - Part 4
We're in the final stretch. We've got Apache, ColdFusion and MySQL up and running. Now we need a way to write some actual ColdFusion code in Linux. For that, we need the Eclipse IDE and a few plug-ins, primarily CFEclipse.
The ACME Guide: 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Edition - Part 3
We've got [A]pache and [C]oldFusion installed so far. In part three, we're installing 64-bit [M]ySQL.
The ACME Guide: 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Edition - Part 2
Since ColdFusion 6, it's been possible to run on 64-bit systems with 64-bit JVMs, just not officially. (If you're nice, I'll post how later.) 64-bit support was officially introduced for ColdFusion with version 8, but only for Solaris SPARC. As of the 8.0.1 release, Adobe gave us offical support for 64-bit on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Move options between Select Menus with Javascript
I've done this countless times, yet I can never seem to remember how I did it the next time I need the code. This is so I don't have to hit up Google next time.
The ACME Guide: 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Edition - Part 1
I've always appreciated the effort that Stephen Collins put into creating The ACME Guide, which takes you through the steps of setting up a local ColdFusion development environment. This is my walk through of setting up the latest and greatest ACME stack under 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04.
Please stop using SELECT MAX(id)
I know there are a lot of tutorials that use this technique. I also know there's a lot of inherited code (in any language) that contains this SQL. I also also know that - years ago - I too was a slave to SELECT MAX(id). But this is the 21st century and you need to stop using it.
Converting my OOP with ColdFusion series into a book.
I've had a lot of feedback on both the OOP and Mach-II series via e-mail, through comments and in person. Many people have said they've been trying to learn these concepts that "all the blogs talk about", that there aren't many resources out there and that my series has been easy to understand. Hopefully, and with some help, I can write a book that's easy to understand as well.
