 | 28 May 22:16 Sal asks: just curious what's the best way (or how you handle) to truncate a paragraph to only show say perhaps 500 chars.? I have a newsletter that I'm emailing out, and I only wanna show 500 chars. of each article in the email. Ah, I ... 28 May 03:35 Che asks: Ray, n00b RSS question. I have several hundred RSS feeds not related to blog content, but rather to auto classifieds... how can I tell how many people are subscribing to them? If there are subscribers, I don't see them in Google Anal... 27 May 22:24 This is a question I get about once a month. Is it possible to use an autosuggest that returns complex data? What I mean is - I want to be able to start typing into a text field, see a list of matching names come up, but when I pick one, I need to kn... 25 May 04:57 I ran into an interesting issue this week with my work at Broadchoice and the RSS feeds that some of my code was generating. For some reason the times were off by multiple hours. It wasn't a database issue. When viewing the data in non-RSS mode it was perfect. But as soon as I switched to the RSS feed the problem was pretty bad. Because the hours were so far off, new data wasn't showing up in feed readers. 23 May 11:26 I had decided to not work anymore on BlogCFC 5, but with 6 being delayed so long, I gave some love to the 5.X code base tonight. BlogCFC 5.9.003 was released tonight. Nothing major was changed, but I did switch to ColdFish, the code syntax highlighter written by Jason Delmore. This replaces the ancient code I had in there before. Also released was an update to Galleon. This release fixes an issue related to the past security changes as well as a case sensitivity issue. 23 May 00:36 So now that I've begun to use VarScoper I've really been surprised at how bad I am with var scoping. I mean - I'm the guy always complaining about other developers forgetting to var scope. But that's ok. I'm just happy I have the tool. Here is a tip I wanted to share with people. This is probably obvious, but I missed it. I wanted to start using varScoper for all my projects, but didn't want to have to keep editing the path to check different projects. 21 May 02:04 Attached to this blog entry is the PDF and code from my ColdFusion 8 Images presentation. You can preview the slides here: See more at slidesix.com You can download the lecture version here. You can download the hands on version here. Any comments or feedback on the presentation (and feel free to use my contact form would be appreciated. 20 May 21:17 After my presentation yesterday, someone in the audience asked an interesting question. He wanted to shrink an image, but keep the original size. So imagine taking a large image, shrinking down the visual part of it, but keeping the image at the same size with some form of background now. This is relatively easy to do. First we can read in our source image: Then we can shrink it: Now let's create a new canvas. This will be a blank image. I'm picking an arbitrary size here. 19 May 22:10 A few weeks ago I announced that I had joined Broadchoice. I'm very pleased to announce the launch of our on-demand web platform. The press release speaks to it better than I can so I'll just link to that: BROADCHOICE DELIVERS FIRST ON-DEMAND WEB ... 17 May 21:24 I didn't. I really wish there was some type of service (perhaps using a web application - anyone know how to build those?) where I could ask Adobe to email on each and every ColdFusion update. I definitely get that some hot fixes are not for everyone. Adobe recommends you only get a hot fix typically if it applies to an issue you are having, but this weeks release was a cumulative hot fix - something most folks probably want to install. You can find it here: ColdFusion 8.0. | | |