I just pushed up another update to Seeker. I've begun to clean things up a bit. If you download the bits now you will actually see folders for the custom tags, docs, and demos. I've begun the docs, but right now it's just an intro paragraph. But the important thing is that the application is getting a bit more organized. Functionality wise though the only change was a submission by AJ Mercer (with help from Mark Mandel, Mr. Transfer as I call em) to support searching multiple fields.

A user pinged me earlier this morning with an interesting issue. His Ajax application wasn't working as expected. He was using jQuery to hit a CFC. Instead of showing you his code, I simplified it a bit which should make the problem a bit simpler to see.

Thursday morning at 1 AM CST (also known as 'holy crap thats late' oclock) I'll be presenting to the New Zealand CFUG. This presentation will (obviously) be over Connect. If anyone in the states is up at that insane hour, please feel free to join me: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/newzealandcfug/ The meeting topic will be on ColdFusion 8 and Ajax functionality. Unless I fall asleep. Then the topic will be on repeatString("z", 255).

Over on the BACFUG mailing list, a user asked: Is there a way to adjust the size of the footer in a PDF created with cfdocument? I'd like to put a table in the footer but it needs to be taller than the default size. I can put the table in the content of the document but it needs to be at the bottom of the page anyway, so I'm hoping there's some sneaky way to change the footer size that I haven't found yet.

I updated Seeker a few minutes. This is my code that wraps Lucene functionality. If that sounds like a type of mouthwash to you - just think of Lucene as a search engine, much like Verity, except that Lucene is free and open source. It also runs just fine on OSX. The updates I included in Seeker are just bug fixes, but pretty critical bug fixes. Later this week I hope to have the ColdFusion Administrator pages build in to make it even easier to use.

This is a dupe, but as it comes up kind of often, I thought I'd blog it anyway. Doug asks: After I perform a cfquery, is there a way to see what the query actually looked like? I'm not asking if there was an error, I know I can grab that through a cfcatch. But if the query was good (and I'm still not getting the results I expected) I want to see how the query was formed.

I just released a wrapper for SlideShare, a slide show hosting service. (Although I'm hoping folks use slidesix.com!) The CFC wraps all the 'read' style actions and is just missing the upload command. I want to thank my employer, Broadchoice, for letting me open source this. I know I'm going to sound like I'm kissing up, but the attitude of this company is a large part of why I joined. There was absolutely no reservation to me sharing this code with the world, so again, thank you Broadchoice!

I continue to monitor and - if not work on - at least think about - the issues RIAForge is dealing with. Today I woke up to 5000 (yes, really) errors messages. The errors mentioned the inability to write a temp file related to SQL. I thought maybe my...

This is a cross post from something I just posted to the ColdFusion Cookbook, but since that site gets about a 100 hits a month or so, I figured I'd share it here as well. Date comparisons are fairly easy in ColdFusion. One common task is to compare a date value to the current date and check if there is a match on the day, week, month, etc. For this entry we will consider comparing a date's century to the current century. This is a bit more complex.

Just passing on the news from the MAX blog, but registration for MAX 2008 is now open. The form itself may be found here along with further details here. November is right around the corner!