Succor (Nick Tong) - coldfusion developer in Brighton!

Job Opening - ColdFusion developer for 3 months - North London

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:09:00 -0000

mandy.com the film/tv production resource seeks experienced developer to work with small established team, at their offices in north London. mandy.com was founded in 1995 and gets 6.5 million impressions per month. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=...

Block sublinks in google search results

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:36:00 -0000

If you are lucky enough to have a site with lots of traffic you may well have noticed that when you search for your site in Google you have sublinks appear showing your most popular site content. This is all well and good but sometimes the subli...

cferror.org

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:00 -0000

Adrian Lynch has launched a new site called... you guessed it http://cferror.org/ [The] site that documents ColdFusion errors so you can search for solutions and of course submit your own errors either to get a solution or to help out othe...

Speed up your database by removing autoclose

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:53:00 -0000

On one of our DB servers when we installed it we went with the default setup - what this did though was configure the databases load and unload when they were not being utilised (an option called autoclose). This option should be disabled on all ... [More]

Sadly I have to stand down from CFDevCon

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:39:00 -0000

Sadly due to a rather busy last few months I no longer have time to work on the CFDevCon conference and have to stand down. I have to say that it's been a great experience trying to set this up - needless to say it's also been a lot of hard work....

oh no - I destroyed my tempdb table in MSSQL

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:00:00 -0000

Ok - so im not ashamed to admit it so yes I destroyed my MSSQL tempdb table. So what is this table? Tempdb is a system database used by SQL Server to store temporary tables and temporary stored procedures, for sorting, subqueries, and aggregate... [More]

Free goodies when you book for CFDevCon 2008 - but hurry!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:50:00 -0000

IF you don't already know CFDevCon are giving away a few free goodies for the next X number of people that book for the CFdevCon 2008 conference. Go and grab them while you can!! Poke and kick your boss until he gets his credit card out :P

New transfer lexicon: listByPropertyMap

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:42:00 -0000

As you may or may not know I'm quite big fan of fusebox and one of the things I love is its power with lexicons. Alex Lloyd, from my company Talkwebsolutions, today put together a new lexicon for Transfer. This lexicon allows use of the lisByPr...

Setting up a certificate in IIS 6

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:09:00 -0000

Here is a quick step-by-step guide to setup a certificate on IIS: [More]

Bulk insert a CSV/excel file

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:06:00 -0000

A lot of the time i get given data in excel formats that i need to insert into tables. The quickest way (I find) to do this is to save the excel as a CSV, upload the file to the same place SQL server and then run this script: [More]

Error: Element SYSTEM is undefined in INSTANCE - Transfer?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:36:00 -0000

Ok - so this was a first time i'd ever seen this error and I was a little stumped. The error come when I tried to login to a site which I'd done a 'thousand' times before. Looking at the stack trace I could see the error was caused by Transfer. Hm...

Search twiiter conversations

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:13:00 -0000

Ok - so i'm a bit of a twitter fan boy but hey. I just got a tweet from @tweekdeck letting me know about http://summize.com. A quick search for coldfusion returns some nice results. Be sure to checkout their advanced search as well.

Quickly exporting a table into a CSV

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:54:00 -0000

I've just written a few lines of code which easily export the contents of a table into a CSV. This is rather handy if you clients need to download the content locally. Here is the code: [More]

Twello - the Twitter seive

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:01:00 -0000

Just a quick post to say thet Twello is really cool for finding people with the same interests - just check out ColdFusion users. Find out more here

Does Second life have a real rival?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:36:00 -0000

I'm just about to try Twinity. From a quick overview it looks rather interesting - it also appears to have some Kaneva features. What else have other people discovered? Quick update - PC only!! Time to boot VMware up.