Choose My Adventure

If you liked "Choose your own adventure" books, this may appeal to you. In this case, you have the opportunity to choose what I do on vacation.

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Upgrading My Development Environment

I admit it; I have been behind the times for a while. Most of my ColdFusion development has been on HomeSite and I haven't been much using source control. I started using CFEclipse a few months ago, but I would still switch back to HomeSite with some frequency. I decided, however, that it is time for a change.

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NoticeMgr Goes Gold

NoticeMgr allows you to set up dynamic, event driven email so that it can be edited by your users.

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Schedule Until...

This week I have been working on a task that will send out several email messages many more than I want to send to the mailserver at one time. I need some way to send them out in batches until they are all done. My solution led to something that will handle anything that needs to repeat across large time spans until complete.

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SpamFilter.cfc Beta 2

I just made an update to SpamFilter.cfc and I am releasing it as 1.0 Beta 2. This is a result of some spam that I have gotten on the contact form of my web site despite having SpamFilter.cfc working against that contact form. I really have to thank those spammers for helping me improve the product.

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AppLoader: Loading Application-Scoped Components

Early in my use of Application-scoped CFCs, I realized that I would have to have some mechanism to reload them when I changed the code.

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CFC Instantiation

I was looking for a good introduction to instantiating a CFC to link to from a blog entry. I couldn't find one that covered what I wanted, so I decided I would just write one myself.

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