Powered by BlogCFM http://www.dougboude.com/blog <font size="3">Though a &quot;minor&quot; cosmetic issue at times, it can be challenging to come up with creative ways to accommodate what I consider to be IE's shortcomings regarding the control of form items, in particular select lists. With at least one project I'm currently working on, I have a select list that lives in a fixed width div, yet there are times when the text values of the options are wider than the div itself. The client respect http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/05/Viewing-Option-Text-in-IE7-thats-Wider-than-the-Select-List.cfm 2008-05-14T11:31:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets <font size="3">After spending more time than I care to say troubleshooting a CSS issue with IE7, I thought I'd share the details here in case it saves anybody else some time later down the road.<br /><br /><b>The Scenario...</b><br />I have an application that updates the contents of one of its divs using an ajax call that returns html. Within that retrieved html is a style block (&lt;style&gt;...&lt;/style&gt;) defining how I want my table heade http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/05/Inline-CSS-and-Ajax-Issue-with-IE.cfm 2008-05-14T11:00:41-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets <font size="3">I'm sure by now we're all of the opinion that we have GOT to find an alternative to gas powered vehicles. I was musing on this very topic last weekend while sunning myself on the banks of the Guadalupe river, and came up with what I think is a GENIUS idea (though my wife whole heartedly disagrees for some reason):<br /><br />A giant wind up car.<br /><br />We know how the little wind up cars work...wind up a spring, then utilize th http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/05/The-Perfect-Alternative-to-Gas-Powered-Vehicles.cfm 2008-05-09T11:56:36-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea <font size="3">Okay, I just have to boast a little bit about the great success my family and I had this past month with our energy conservation, evidence being our electric bill. <b>Grand total for the month of April: $96.</b><br /><br />For context's sake, here's the scenario:<br /><br />We live in a two story, 2500 sq foot home that is half brick. It is situated east-west, so our back porch area sees the sun all day long (thus making the southe http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/05/Promoting-Family-Unity-Lowering-Your-Utility-Bills.cfm 2008-05-07T15:20:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family <font size="3"><b>A necessary disclaimer...</b><br /><font size="2"><i>Everything in the following post that appears to be an opinion most likely is and should be taken as such. My personal view on a topic does not (necessarily) invalidate any other opposing view. Readers should ascribe whatever value they so choose to the information that follows and either adopt it or reject it at their own discretion.</i></font><br /><br />In the comment threa http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/05/Why-I-Hate-ORMs-a-solicited-rant.cfm 2008-05-01T11:54:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP <font size="3">Once upon a time, there was a little red rooster and his three friends Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo and Miss Tortoise. One day, the little red rooster had a wonderful idea for a business that would both benefit the town they all lived in, the deaf community as a whole, AND enable them all to provide for themselves and their families. So, the little red rooster gathered Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo and Miss Tortoise together and told them all a http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/04/The-Little-Red-Rooster.cfm 2008-04-18T13:15:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E. <font size="3">Just wondering, but has anybody else ever gotten to the point in their banking experiences where they felt like trying to deposit a third party check was like rolling the dice or shaking the magic 8 ball as to whether or not they were going to hold or release your funds to you? Well, it's been that way for me for some time now at my bank, and last Friday morning was the last straw. The experience was so frustrating that I wrote a f http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/Letter-from-a-Frustrated-Patron-to-their-Bank.cfm 2008-03-11T11:10:22-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E. <font size="3">I just wanted to share the latest on the efforts to establish the country's first truly Deaf Friendly Certified city: Branson, Missouri.<br /><br />Signed Entertainment Enterprises engaged Missouri Governor Matt Blunt in a dialogue regarding their efforts to make Branson deaf and hard of hearing friendly, and what resulted was the invitation to submit a proclamation for the Governor to review. Signed Entertainment then asked little http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/Missouri-Issues-Official-Proclamation--That-I-Drafted.cfm 2008-03-11T11:00:23-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E. <font size="3">Last September I shared a post on an <a href="http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2006/09/ClientSide-Interactivity-without-Ajax.cfm">alternative to Ajax for client-side interactivity</a> leveraging Coldfusion's WDDX. I'd like to take it a step further now and share an approach (and corresponding code) I often use in my Model-Glue apps when needing to create tiered or drilldown-type select lists <i>withOUT</i> having to make numerous ca http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/test.cfm 2008-03-09T22:46:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON <font size="3">The following post is for entertainment purposes only and is not intended to prompt any real responses from anyone. In addition, if you're truly tired of the topic of &quot;Coldfusion is Dead&quot;, don't even waste your time reading this post. I just received a comment from a Javaphyte on an older post I had done and couldn't resist digging him a little bit, so thought I'd share it.<br /><br /><b>Javaphyte's Comment:</b><br /><br http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/For-Your-Entertainment-Only-CF-is-Dead--Dialogue.cfm 2008-03-07T02:40:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON <font size="3">Function.<br />The word has given not just new coders wrinkled brows and vacant stares, but also most everyone who encounters the term initially. Though we programmers might tend to think&nbsp; &quot;function&quot; only applies to us, in reality it crosses every boundary and therefore I believe that NOBODY should live one moment longer without being armed with a precise understanding of it. Here's what got me thinking about it...<b http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/What-IS-a-Function-Anyway.cfm 2008-03-07T01:27:39-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON <font size="3">So I'm having a discussion with my friend Jim the other day about an article he was writing and I give him a suggestion regarding one of his sentences on the subject of encapsulation. He had stated that encapsulation is about hiding data, while I appended the fact that it also hides business logic. This prompted an immediate discussion on the term 'business logic', and what exactly it was and was not. So, I thought it good to share http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/03/What-IS-Business-Logic-Anyway.cfm 2008-03-06T20:32:40-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON <font size="3">My lovely lady and I love to nest. That is, we are always looking for ways to make our home our favorite place to be. Lately, (since we south Texans are privileged to an early onset of GORGEOUS weather), our attention has been on the backyard. We have several projects in the works, all of them on a shoestring budget, so I thought I'd share one with you all in the hope that it will inspire you, too; a little bit of effort goes a lon http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/Making-Your-Home-a-Pleasant-Place-to-Be-Project-Birdbath.cfm 2008-02-26T13:11:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <font size="3">Ever felt so confident in your skills and ability to code an entire model glue event from the xml to the controller, model, and view that you decided to go ahead and do two or three entire events before you actually attempted to run your code, only to find out that SOMEWHERE along the lines you fat fingered your xml, and for the LIFE of you can't see it? All Model-Glue is going to tell you is that your XML is invalid, but it's up t http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/Finding-Fat-Finger-errors-in-Modelgluexml.cfm 2008-02-21T12:31:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <p><font size="3">Back in July I shared the results of my personal forray into JSON as a blog post, comparing it to XML as a means of returning Ajax data. In order to conduct my experiments, I had utilized an open source CFC called JSON.CFC in order to do the conversion from CF data types to JSON and vica versa. After the post, one individual made the comment that once CF 8 came out, there wouldn't be a need for JSON.CFC anymore. Well, until toda http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/CFJSON-MAYBE-CF8-DIDNT-MAKE-YOU-OBSOLETE-AFTER-ALL.cfm 2008-02-06T16:20:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <font size="3"><font size="2"><i>(OT to the technical aggregators)<br /><br /></i></font>As some of you may have read in <a href="http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/Branson-Missouri-to-Become-Deaf-and-Hard-of-Hearing-Friendly.cfm">my previous post</a> on the efforts being made in Branson, Missouri to make that city the country's first &quot;Certified Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friendly&quot; vacation destination, Signed Entertainment Enterpris http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/Deaf-and-Hard-of-Hearing-Friendliness-in-Branson-Let-Your-Opinion-Count.cfm 2008-02-05T11:19:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <font size="3">Ah, sounds like a no brainer, right? Why even do a blog post on such a thing, right? Because Google requires that an SMTP connection be encrypted...something that CFMX7 just doesn't do all by its lonesome. I need to vent a little, so here's my story followed by some useful info....<br /><br />It's extremely late on a Sunday night and you're in the final final stages of a site migration for a client. Their &quot;under construction&q http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/Using-Google-as-your-CF-Mail-Server.cfm 2008-02-04T12:13:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <font size="3">Okay, it's been exactly 14 business days since I became a free agent, and by my estimation, I have officially been working ten times harder than I ever did at a &quot;real&quot; job...at least it feels like that. For some reason I had it in my head that I would have eight hours a day now to purely dedicate to coding; my bubble has been burst, however, as I find that, unless I'm willing to put in extra hours in the evening as well ( http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/02/Diary-of-a-Work-From-Home-Man--Part-I.cfm 2008-02-01T20:45:42-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial">It was a blustery day in the Hundred Acre Woods&hellip;no, wait. It was actually a gray, cold, rainy, overcast Sunday afternoon in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:place></st1:city>. Well, cold for us south Texans, anyway. I had five of my children with me and we were looking for an economical way to entertain ourselves, so we settled on one of our &ldquo;old reliables&rdqu http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/Movie-Review-Dan-In-Real-Life.cfm 2008-01-23T14:56:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review <font size="3" face="Arial"><i>(This is slightly off topic to those readers arriving from the technical aggregators, but nevertheless is an item of interest to all, I believe)</i><br /><br />Okay i've been holding off on sharing this information for a little while now until things really began to materialize, but the time is now right to let the world know about S.E.E. ... <a href="http://www.see-entertainment.com/">Signed Entertainment Enterpris http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/Branson-Missouri-to-Become-Deaf-and-Hard-of-Hearing-Friendly.cfm 2008-01-11T18:58:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review <font size="3">As you may know by now, I am only two days away from being a completely free agent. In the meantime while I finish up my last days here at Fiserv, I've been tapping my friends and colleagues for tips and advice on making my solo flight a success. One of those good friends, Boyan Kostadinov, took some time today to share with me the tools he uses to organize his own side projects. Being the extra nice guy he is, he also summed it al http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/Organizational-Tips-for-the-SelfEmployed-or-those-who-do-side-jobs.cfm 2008-01-11T16:31:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial">As I traversed the route I always do from my Jeep to the entrance of the office building where I work, I glanced at the now empty nest that lay in the ivy bed under the oak tree. Pin feathers and empty, broken egg shells decorated the area as scavengers had left it somewhat disheveled in their search for any of the ducklings which may not have hatched. The raccoons found nothing in the nest, howeve http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/The-Dark-Side-of-Good-Intentions.cfm 2008-01-04T11:16:50-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations <font size="3">When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a man to dissolve the employee/employer relationship which has connected him with the corporate world, a decent respect to the livelihood of that man requires that he should declare the skills, services, and benefits that are now available for consumption by the general population.<br /><br />Yesterday, I took the first step into a new chapter in my life and turned in my t http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2008/01/Free-At-Last-Free-At-Last.cfm 2008-01-03T12:51:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations <font size="3" face="Arial">As any user of Model-Glue can attest to, there are often times when you get the ol' &quot;OOPS!&quot; message and it doesn't give you much of a clue as to what the REAL issue is. Well, in order to help myself save time during future development and decipher these rather vague and even misleading types of errors, I've begun keeping track of them. I capture the error itself, what I found the TRUE cause to be, and what I http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/12/ModelGlue-Error-Matrix.cfm 2007-12-12T11:20:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <font size="3">For the past several days, my good friend Jim and I have been having a series of discussions regarding the use of the 'THIS' scope within CFCs; specifically, CFCs that are to be used in an OO fashion. He's part of a small team that has just begun their OO journey and are embarking on a project where they hope to grow and refine their understanding in this arena. Jim being the stickler for correctness that he is, he often bounces ap http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/10/Appropriate-Usage-of-the-THIS-Scope.cfm 2007-10-08T11:45:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <font size="3" face="Arial">Jim Pickering, the manager of the Kansas City CF User group, recently started a group project to rebuild their UG's web site. The project has the secondary agenda of promoting team development and learning Model-Glue, so he invited me to participate by setting up a skeleton app with basic security and then giving his volunteers a &quot;Model-Glue Quickstart&quot;.&nbsp; The entire presentation is just over an hour long http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/10/Yet-Another-ModelGlue-Quickstart.cfm 2007-10-04T12:51:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <font size="3" face="Arial">Don't you hate it when you're focused on adding functionality and/or troubleshooting issues in your Model-Glue app and when you save your modelglue.xml file to see if it all works right, you get the error: </font><br /><font style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <h1 sty http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/10/ModelGlue-XML-Isnt-Valid-Short-Reminder.cfm 2007-10-03T16:36:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <br /> <p><font size="3"><i>A sign I made for the bathroom stall at work...I'll let you guess why I felt it necessary.</i></font> <img alt="" src="/blog/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/omg_smile.gif" /></p> <p><font size="3"><i>Feel free to use it, too!</i></font></p> <p><br /></p> <table cellpadding="3" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="2"><img alt="The Cat in the Hat" src="http://www.dougboude. http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/10/And-Now-For-Something-Completely-Different.cfm 2007-10-02T21:17:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <font size="3">Lately I've had the privilege of helping a good friend of mine climb &quot;Mt. OOP&quot;, and in the process have been able to refine a lot of my own knowledge. I've also discovered that I sometimes make too many assumptions when imparting understandings, and this short post is in regards to one of those items: Dumping Objects.<br /><br />One thing I always urge my fellow developers to do is to form a solid expectation of what the http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/10/Dumping-An-Object-is-Like-Taking-an-XRay.cfm 2007-10-02T15:03:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring <font size="3">In a post I did a while back, I shared what I had learned about using Model-Glue's built in &quot;SimpleConfig&quot; cfc. Well, I just got a question from a fellow developer who was trying to leverage the information in that post to implement his own home grown configuration settings cfc, and what I had shared there didn't quite apply. I tried to email him back, but it was returned as undeliverable, so I thought I'd just post my re http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2007/09/Global-Configuration-in-ModelGlue-Using-Your-Own-Config-CFC.cfm 2007-09-27T15:21:00-04:00 bill&apos;s browser,ie,javascript,goog, code snippets,Personal,idea,family,Frameworks,rant,ColdFusion,Model-Glue,OOP,S.E.E.,JSON,placeblogger,movie review,Story,observations,coldspring