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March 31, 2005
Flash Cookies - Local Shared Objects
There is lots of buzz going on over marketers using Flash's Local Shared Objects to store client side information, instead of traditional http cookies. This is a response to a report from Jupiter research stating that 38% of web users delete cookies on a regular basis.
March 31, 2005
ColdFusion Administrator Defualt Settings
I just helped someone setup their ColdFusion adminstrator settings, there are a few things you probably don't want to leave defaulted, here's a list of some of the things I changed.
March 31, 2005
Exploring Ruby on Rails
The Linux Journal has a good interview called: Exploring Ruby on Rails, it shows you how to create a simple blog application with the framework.
March 31, 2005
The Genius of iPod Pricing
Who ever came up with the pricing on the iPod models is a genius. I was talking to a friend yesterday who was shopping for iPods. He was saying how he has no idea which model to get, because the next model up always offers more storage with a better price/storage ratio.
March 30, 2005
Trackback Salt
When I implemented the new trackback feature on my blog, I was aware that spammers like to use trackbacks, so I coded in a keyword blacklist. Roger Benningfield added a comment about track back autodiscovery and spamming that got me thinking.
March 30, 2005
SanOS
SanOS is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 OS kernel for Java based server appliances running on standard PC hardware.This enables you to run java server applications without the need to install a traditional host operating system like Windows or Linux.
March 29, 2005
Trackbacks working on my blog
I hopefully have trackbacks working on my blog now. If you want to test the methods given in my trackbacks article you can trackback to this post.Here's some code I use to check and see if my trackbacks was successful:
<cfset tbError = ReReplaceNoCase(cfhttp.filecontent, ".
March 29, 2005
Trackbacks with ColdFusion
It's pretty simple to implement trackback pings with CFML, since trackbacks are simply just a HTTP form post to a specific url. The result is an XML file.So do post a trackback to another blog, simply use CFHTTP:
<cfhttp url="http://the.trackback.
March 29, 2005
New Online Poll, CF Edition Pole Results
I have retired my last online poll: What Edition of CF do you use, and much to my surprise it has been pretty much a tie between Standard and Enterprise from the beginning.I expected Standard to have more market share than Enterprise.
March 28, 2005
BlueDragon adds new Tags and Functions
New Atlanta's CFML engine BlueDragon was just given an upgrade to version 6.2 last week. BlueDragon has added tags that are not supported by Macromedia ColdFusion since version 3 of their product.
March 28, 2005
SQL Reserved Key Words Checker Tool
I just whipped together a tool for checking for reserved sql words. The tool checks against SQL Server 2000, MySQL 5.0, PostgreSQL 8.0, Oracle 10g, ODBC, and SQL Server Future Keywords list.
March 28, 2005
REFind and ReReplace support \r \n and \t
I noticed today that the regular expression functions in CF support the newline character \n Chr(10), carriage return \r Chr(13), and tab \t Chr(9).
March 25, 2005
Apache Modules - Top 10 List
When people ask me why I run my web server on linux, the main reason is Apache, and when they ask why I like Apache - the modules.
March 25, 2005
Engineering CSS
I have a bachelors degree in Software Engineering, which is quite different from computer science, which most people assume was my degree.
March 24, 2005
Apache mod_rewrite for IIS
mod_rewrite is easily my favorite module for Apache. You can use it to create very clean urls, and you can even use it for security validation.
March 23, 2005
Function to get Page Title from a URL
I wrote a simple function today that grabs a url, and parses out the title of the page from the url:
March 23, 2005
Regular Expressions
I was telling my girlfriend that I was working with regular expressions yesterday, and she said: Regular Expressions... sounds like a division of Hallmark. She of course is not a programmer, and she cracks me up with these sort of comments all the time.
March 22, 2005
API Blog
I am now a contributer to the API Blog.My most recent post is about the 43 Things Web Service that was just released.
If you haven't checked out 43 Things it's a pretty cool web site where you can share info about common goals you have.
March 21, 2005
Domain Name Transfers
The first domain I ever bought, many years ago has been registered with Network Solutions, it was first registered with Internic, which handed things over to Network Solutions.
March 21, 2005
Regular Expressions - Named Capture Groups
I am porting some code from .NET to Java today, and found out about a very cool feature in regular expressions called Named Groups. Most regular expression implementations let you group text (which can then be used for back-references) using parenthesis, for example: my name is (pete).
March 21, 2005
Usability Tip for Visited Link Colors
I have been messing around with some link colors on my dealazon site over the weekend, and I noticed that visited link colors we're really important.So my tip is don't make a visited link color darker than the default link color.
March 20, 2005
Another Trick for Avoiding Email Harvesters
Most people know that spammers have robots that surf the net looking for email addresses, such programs are called email harvesters.
March 18, 2005
Prepared Statements with JDBC
To prevent SQL Injection Hacking with JDBC, you simply just need to use Prepared Statements, this is pretty easy to, just use a PreparedStatement object instead of a Statement Object, in your SQL replace your variables with ?
March 17, 2005
Freitag Bags
It's always interesting to see what other people that have the same last name as you are doing. Its even more interesting if they are doing something cool, and in my case I can point to some Freitag brothers (Daniel & Markus) that are doing something pretty cool in Switzerland.
March 17, 2005
Google Code
Google has launched a new site called Google Code it is Google's place for Open Source software.Right now all the projects listed are mostly C/C++, with one Python project.
March 16, 2005
Mike Nimer is blogging
Mike Nimer, a Macromedia employee has started a blog. He was the main developer of the new CFFORM stuff in CFMX 7.Mike also just released a log viewer plugin for eclipse, details on his blog.
March 16, 2005
OpenSearch by Amazon's A9 Search Engine
Amazon's A9 Search engine has just added a very cool feature called OpenSearch. The idea is pretty simple, web sites can submit RSS feeds for their search results to the A9 OpenSearch web site, then users can search lots of sites from one portal, or search aggregator.
March 16, 2005
Resetting your page output
I just figured out a simple way of resetting the output stream in a coldfusion template using the JspWriter obtained from the PageContext:You won't see any content above the line below.
<cfset GetPageContext().getOut().
March 15, 2005
Google AdLinks
I just logged into my Google AdSense account, and noticed that they updated the terms, and also are introducing AdLinks.Ad Links are a new form of text advertising that we're offering to our AdSense publishers.
March 15, 2005
Mach-II User Group Meeting and User Group Web Site
Well we had our first lunch time CFUG meeting today (we used to meet at night at 7:30), I think I like the lunch time meeting better - and many of our members seam to prefer it because it doesn't cut into their personal time.
March 15, 2005
Hash
After a long break in my series of the little enhancements in ColdFusion MX 7 (CFMX 7 Little Things), I am back today with another article, this time with the Hash function.In versions of ColdFusion prior to 7, the Hash function used the MD5 algorithm to generate hash values.
March 14, 2005
Blog Reader Survey
BlogAds recently conducted a blog reader survey of over 30,000 blog readers.
March 14, 2005
Mach II
Here's a recent conversation I had with my girlfriend:Me: We have a speaker coming in from Rochester, NY (Tracy Logan) for our CFUG meeting.
GF: That's cool, what is he going to talk about?
Me: Mach-II
GF: The shaver?
March 14, 2005
DocBook vs Apache Forrest
I've spent the last few hours looking at DocBook, and Apache Forrest two XML documentation frameworks. Basically what these two frameworks let you accomplish is seperate your documentation content from your documentation layout, and display format.
March 11, 2005
Where are my ALT tooltips in Firefox
I was wondering why Firefox doesn't show tooltips when you use the alt attribute in img tags like IE does. Turns out IE should not be displaying alt messages in tooltips, the title attribute is designed for that.But don't stop using the alt attribute, thats required for accessibility.
March 11, 2005
Soulive
I try to keep my entries mostly on-topic with web technology related posts, but I think its goodevery now and then to show a personal side. So I'm adding a Music category to this site.
March 11, 2005
Free Live Music Downloads
The Live Music Archive from archive.org offers hundreds of live concert audio for download free of charge, cd quality (FLAC), and 100% legal.Some mainstream bands include:
G.
March 11, 2005
Stopping HTTP Referer Spam with ColdFusion
I get a lot of hits from HTTP Referer spammers in my logs these days. If your not familiar with this type of spam, its pretty simple. Someone has a url that they want you to visit, so they write a spider to visit your site, but they put in their url as the HTTP referer.
March 10, 2005
Amazon Context Specific Recommendations
You may have noticed in the last few weeks I have had something at the bottom of my posts called Related Books Beta. Let me explain how I did that.I play around a lot with Amazon web services (have you seen my site to find amazon deals?).
March 10, 2005
Some handy Eclipse Keyboard Shotrcuts
I found some handy keyboard shortcuts for working with Eclipse (these are actually part of the general text editor component, so they work with pretty much any editor including the cfeclipse editor)Alt+Up - Swap the current line with the line above it
Alt+Down - Swap the
March 09, 2005
PostgreSQL for Mac OS X
There is a new project that has created an installer for PostgreSQL Database Server on Mac OS X. The project also aims to create some native OSX gui tools for PostgreSQL.
March 09, 2005
Use Case Articles
Use Cases are one of the first steps of the design phase in software engineering. They are really simple diagrams you can easily make - they are easy enough to understand and create that you can show them to your customer, or boss. Use cases are also part of UML.
March 08, 2005
Wasting Time with Laszlo
Geert Bevin has a blog entry, titled wasting time with laszlo in which he exclaims some of his frustrations when working with Laszlo Presentation Server.Laszlo, if your not familiar is an xml based rich application development environment, similar to Macromedia Flex.
March 07, 2005
Linux and OS X Shell Commands
I found this site with a handy list of OS X and Linux shell commands, along with documentation.
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Pete Freitag is a software engineer, and web developer located in central new york.
Pete's company Foundeo Inc. builds products for web developers and provides consulting services.
In 2003 Pete published the ColdFusion MX Developers Cookbook with SAMs Publishing.
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