Best Practices is something that I don't think anyone, anywhere, ever gets 100% right. There's no "right" way to do everything. But we're striving to do things better all of the time, right? For example, in the ColdFusion world we have Unit Testing frameworks like MxUnit, CFUnit, CFCUnit, and Selenium. I know Selenium isn't just for CF, but it does integrate nicely!

Best Practices is something that I don't think anyone, anywhere, ever gets 100% right. There's no "right" way to do everything. But we're striving to do things better all of the time, right? For example, in the ColdFusion world we have Unit Testing frameworks like MxUnit, CFUnit, CFCUnit, and Selenium. I know Selenium isn't just for CF, but it does integrate nicely!

I did say I was going to explore this whole Mango plugin thing, right? Yeah, thought so. Today I've got a cool little plugin for Mango that adds a comments summary screen to the admin. I didn't like having to sort of "dig" for my post comments, so here they are all on one screen. It shows your 10 most recent posts and all comments to them. Links are provided to edit or delete them, for quick access.

I did say I was going to explore this whole Mango plugin thing, right? Yeah, thought so. Today I've got a cool little plugin for Mango that adds a comments summary screen to the admin. I didn't like having to sort of "dig" for my post comments, so here they are all on one screen. It shows your 10 most recent posts and all comments to them. Links are provided to edit or delete them, for quick access.

I'm happy to officially announce the first beta release of Burnt Mango, my FeedBurner plugin for Mango Blog. Download it on the Burnt Mango project page, and let me know what you think! From the project page: BurntMango is a simple Mango Blog plugin that allows you to replace the feed urls that your blog readers see with the URLs provided by FeedBurner. It works with all skins that properly implement the Mango RSS/ATOM feed url tags. (Which should be all of them, right?

I'm happy to officially announce the first beta release of Burnt Mango, my FeedBurner plugin for Mango Blog. Download it on the Burnt Mango project page, and let me know what you think! From the project page: BurntMango is a simple Mango Blog plugin that allows you to replace the feed urls that your blog readers see with the URLs provided by FeedBurner. It works with all skins that properly implement the Mango RSS/ATOM feed url tags. (Which should be all of them, right?

It's always bothered me that CFSelect validation only worked for multiple-select (list) boxes, and that we were left to our own devices to validate single-select (drop down) inputs. A few weeks ago I found a comment on Ben Forta's Blog that describes how to override the default validation function to properly handle single selects. The one caveat is that, since by nature a single-select input will always have one option selected, you have to have one invalid option.

It's always bothered me that CFSelect validation only worked for multiple-select (list) boxes, and that we were left to our own devices to validate single-select (drop down) inputs. A few weeks ago I found a comment on Ben Forta's Blog that describes how to override the default validation function to properly handle single selects. The one caveat is that, since by nature a single-select input will always have one option selected, you have to have one invalid option.

I've had some time over the last few days to start adding some of the "nice to have" features to a client site before delivering it, and one of those was the ability to upload product images and related PDFs, rather than having to teach them to always follow the naming scheme and how to [...

I've had some time over the last few days to start adding some of the "nice to have" features to a client site before delivering it, and one of those was the ability to upload product images and related PDFs, rather than having to teach them to always follow the naming scheme and how to use FTP. While testing my uploads in various browsers, I came across something I found to be very odd.