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How to get the current value of an FCKEditor textarea via javascript

Sat, 23 May 2009 19:54:00 GMT

a replacement for getElementByID

ColdFusion Histogram from a string of words

Sat, 09 May 2009 23:12:00 GMT

How to get the most occurring words in a string with coldfusion

Java now available on the Google App engine

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Its official, java is now compatible with the Google App Engine!

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/04/seriously-this-time-new-language-on-app.html

Does this mean we can run CFML on the app engine now?

Anyone from Adobe / OpenBD / Railo care to share their plans for this?

Multiple Apache Files for Multiple CFML Engines

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:21:00 GMT

I frequently have to switch between two development environments. One is an Adobe CF environment, and another is a Railo environment. Both need unique apache httdp.conf, so i wrote two batch files to take care of this. Then I just run them from within eclipse, and restart apache!

Here are the files:

switch_cf.bat

:: Switch to coldfusion
If exist cf_httpd.conf (
rename httpd.conf r_httpd.conf;
rename cf_httpd.conf httpd.conf;
)

switch_railo.bat

:: Switch to railo
If exist r_httpd.conf (
rename httpd.conf cf_httpd.conf;
rename r_httpd.conf httpd.conf;
)

Pretty simple!

CFquickDocs clone

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:25:00 GMT

I just found out about http://www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/ today. Previously I had been using the very nice cfquickdocs.com for my documentation, but this new competitor looks promising.

A better Ending to battlestar galactica

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:49:00 GMT

By now you've all seen the season finale to Battlestar Galactica, which was quite an awesome show. However, the ending left me feeling a bit unfulfilled, and some parts were completely unplausible: I just can't imagine that everyone was willing to just give up all their technology and live a life of toil and struggle amongst the sabre tooth tigers for the rest of their lives after 4 years of hardship, pain, and struggle.

Anyway
The first part of the finale was just great, right upto the point where they jumped away from the colony, which is where we pick up...

They jump away from the cylon colony and into earths orbit, 12 hours later the fleet shows up. Helo, who is in critical condition after being shot, is being moved on a raptor to the medical ship with doc hoddle, who is gearing up to prep him for emergency surgery. Hell, I'll even put apollo and starbuck on the raptor flying it for excitement purposes. Meanwhile around the fleet signs of jubilation occur as everyone discovers they have found one sweet ass home. Unfortunately, galactica's battle damage is too much, and the ship begins to go critical. Adama orders an evacuation but its too late and the ship goes nuclear, destroying the entire fleet in the process. The raptor with helo and his family on it is the only military aircraft far enough away (we'll put the medical ship at the farthest point away from galactica for simplicity sake) that is able to survive the galactica, all the other ships are unshielded and blow the fuck up. The raptor is damaged though and has to crash land on earth, and its angling towards africa.

Because of the blast, the baseship has no idea that helo and hira and sharon survived because all their sensors are fucked up, and they fail to detect the raptor entering earths atmosphere. Eventually The baseship decides to leave and jumps away after the centurions decide that all the humans must be dead.

We spend about 2 minutes with the people on the raptor as it goes down and they all conteplate their impending death. Miraculously, starbuck and appollo manage to crash land the raptor. As they land they hit a a rock and part of it crushes the cockpit, instantly killing starbuck and leaving apollo fatally injured, dying in his chair. sharon drags Helo, out of the cockpit hira scrambles out as well, but the raptor explodes, wounding sharon and hira as well. Now the native tribe show up and attempt to help helo and sharon but its too late and they die. Hira fairs better, and is adopted by the tribe..

Fast forward 20 years to the final scene. Hira is believed to be a god by the native tribe, and has produced countless offspring. She is the new queen. The tribe that has adopted her has adopted language and is making huge strides towards civilization. Signs of other tribes in slavery are throughout the village As hira overlooks her troops preparing to enslave yet another rival tribe, we zoom in on her eyes, they flash red from left to right and back again. She is still, and will always be part cylon.

I launched a new business building dental websites

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:07:00 GMT

Dental Websites for the Masses!