Registered Ajax Responders Not Responding Properly

2010-02-19T11:20:00-05:00

If you use the Prototype Javascript library and you chain your Ajax calls together at times, you may have run into the issue that I just dealt with regarding your registered responders not responding correctly! Since I spent more time than I care to share trying to figure out why my global responders weren't working like I thought they should, I thought I'd share what I learned. Hope it saves somebody some time! :)

Batch Script to Backup MySQL Database

2009-09-17T09:30:00-05:00

In setting up a new IIS7/Windows 2008 server, I had a need to automate the backup of my MySQL database and so pieced together a little batch file that I then scheduled via the Task Scheduler. The file first removes all backup files that are more than a week old, then performs a sql dump and finally zips the dump. Files are named according to the date and time they were created. Anyway, it took me quite a while to find all the pi

Making Your Home a Pleasant Place to Be: Project Birdbath

2008-02-26T13:11:00-05:00

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

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friendliness in Branson: Let Your Opinion Count

2008-02-05T11:19:00-05:00

(OT to the technical aggregators)

As some of you may have read in my previous post on the efforts being made in Branson, Missouri to make that city the country's first "Certified Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friendly" vacation destination, Signed Entertainment Enterpris

Using Google as your CF Mail Server

2008-02-04T12:13:00-05:00

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....

It's extremely late on a Sunday night and you're in the final final stages of a site migration for a client. Their "under construction&q

Branson, Missouri to Become Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friendly

2008-01-11T18:58:00-05:00

(This is slightly off topic to those readers arriving from the technical aggregators, but nevertheless is an item of interest to all, I believe)

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. ... Signed Entertainment Enterpris

Appropriate Usage of the "THIS" Scope

2007-10-08T11:45:00-05:00

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

Global Configuration in Model-Glue: Using Your Own Config CFC

2007-09-27T15:21:00-05:00

In a post I did a while back, I shared what I had learned about using Model-Glue's built in "SimpleConfig" 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

Dynamically Outputting Query Data 'X' Columns Across

2007-09-21T05:34:21-05:00

Dynamically outputting query data in "X number of columns across" is no new thing, but since I found myself having to do that very thing this morning, I thought I'd share this sweet little snippet for the benefit of everyone (but mostly for my own snippet collection since I seem to tend to "forget what I once new"... lol).

In this example I'm going to output a series of short questions using the follo

Adobe User Groups Everywhere: I Have A Dream

2007-09-20T03:44:00-05:00

I haven't been a member of very many Coldfusion/Adobe-centered User groups, but the few I have participated in seem to have a common, perpetual and prevalent concern floating in the air: membership and attendance.

I have very recently had the privilege of being part of the resurrection of S

last time I promise...Coldfusion is Dead!

2007-09-11T16:49:00-05:00

Sys-con and some of the other brilliant prognosticators out there were my source of inspiration this morning on the drive in to to work...here, have a look-see into my unique mind....

Adding the name Dave Lowe, for google indexing's sake.... :)

My Blog is Now MUCH More Print Friendly

2007-09-11T04:00:00-05:00

Just an FYI for those who might be interested...

At the suggestion of a recent reader of my blog, I have made it MUCH easier now to print out any posts of interest. At the bottom of each post is a link which will render it for you in a new window (and in a format I'm sure you'll recognize).

If you do give this a whirl and find any posts that cause the process to "not work so good", please let me know

Promoting Family Unity: A Weekend at the Beach!

2007-08-20T23:20:00-05:00

The plan materialized late one night over sweating glasses of White Merlot when Jen and I did the budget and weighed out our options.Camping was up there on the list, and fared well with regards to the budget; but even at night up in the south Texas hill country, it's STILL too hot to sleep comfortably outdoors, so we opted to postpone camping until late fall. Neither she nor her children had ever been to Mustang Islan

The Boude Bunch: When Two Families Become One

2007-08-20T23:09:00-05:00

Promoting family unity is an ongoing process, one that can be extremely complex, fragile, and always requiring constant vigilance and purpose. The process can be even more challenging when the family you're unifying was once two separate ones. Enter if you will into the realm of "The Steps": Step children, step parents.Not only are there the normal human social hurdles to overcome when blending lives in this

Have You Heard the One About...

2007-08-14T11:33:00-05:00

It was a moonless, black, rainy night in the heart of the Texas Hill country as I hugged the hairpin curves of the two-lane blacktop, earnestly striving to make it to my appointment on time. Fall had descended a month ago and the black silhouettes of the dormant mesquite trees were the only thing outside of my truck's narrow high beams that I could discern. That is, until I rounded yet another sharp left bend in the road and saw, t

Accommodating Dynamic Terminology in your App

2007-08-12T11:37:00-05:00

When building applications intended to service multiple clients, the ability to easily customize certain aspects is a must. In the health benefits management arena, this need couldn't be any greater, most notably with regards to terminology and phrasing. Whereas one client may wish to refer to their employees' usage of tobacco as "smoker certification", yet another will insist on calling it "tobacco usage".

The Battle of the Bulge

2007-08-10T12:59:39-05:00

I'm an observer. Not only do I look at what's in front of me while I drive down life's highway, I take note of the ever changing landscape on either side of me. One of those landscapes that seems to be "evolving" is my body. I can think back to my senior year in high school when I was a wrestler, weighing in at 129 pounds of pure muscle and sinew. My waist was 30 inches, and my height...well, it was exactly the same as it

Coder Funnies (well, I think they are!)

2007-07-31T00:26:00-05:00

A while back my sense of self-entertainment took the form of cartooning and over the course of a week I drew up a few that I thought were funny. Of course, everybody has a different sense of humor, so what makes my diaphragm spasm may not affect you at all. If not, well, I can only speculate that there's something terribly handicapped about your sense of humor, and I sincerely hope at some point that a Lourdes-level miracle o

EgoSurf? Formette Snippet

2007-07-17T18:36:00-05:00

EgoSurf...I'm not really sure what to make of it, but it's an interesting use of asynchronous processing, to say the least. Anyway if you haven't heard of it, it's a site that will do deep searches of various search engines for you and your associated web site, then score you based on the results. I thought it was interesting enough to put a formette in my side nav, so thought I'd share the code in case anybody else was interested in doing someth

Promoting Family Unity

2007-07-10T17:34:00-05:00

We just moved into a new house. Fairly large, 2,500 square foot, two story house nestled (very tightly!) in a new subdivision in north San Antonio. The back porch is extra large and shaded by its own roof from the cruelly hot south Texas sun. This provides an absolutely lovely place to set up the hammock and

DEMYSTIFYING JSON (for myself)

2007-07-05T17:50:00-05:00

I'm doing this post because the term 'JSON' has continued to appear here and there within blog posts, conference sessions, articles, and emails that I consume as part of my professional growth regimen. Despite the fact that the term is so very often mentioned casually as if everybody has known about it since Kindergarten, the greater part of my understanding of JSON is barren except for the few clues I have man

Getting Your Deposit Back

2007-07-04T13:50:00-05:00

Any other renters out there? If you've EVER rented before, you know the incredible disadvantage you can be at as a tenant when it comes time to get your deposit back. Out of all the places I've rented in my life...and that's actually quite a few...I can't remember EVER getting my deposit back, and that's not because I tore up every house I lived in, either. In fact, I've been a very GOOD tenant and have done my

The Key to True Conflict Resolution

2007-07-01T06:23:00-05:00

A design pattern is a recurring concept, arrangement of things, and/or repeated process. Life is composed entirely of such patterns. From the patterns found in the genetic blueprints of even the simplest form of life to the consistent and measurable rising and setting of the sun: life is a beautiful matrix of overlaid and interacting patterns. Ah, but more than simply random patterns, these are patterns in the very des

American Airlines, YOU SUCK!

2007-06-27T00:00:00-05:00

American Airlines, if you were a gas, you would be malodiferous and noxious; if you were a teenage girl, you would be gangly and plain, nobody would ever ask you to the prom, and you would die a virgin.

This particular day, I've found myself with you, American Airlines, in an intimate setting, and all of the assumptions I had about you based on hearsay and things gleaned from between the lines over the years have turned

American Sign Language as a Second Language

2007-06-23T10:03:56-05:00

On every Tuesday and Thursday evening in the month of June, I have been taking a sign language class. Of course the first question that tends to come to mind is "why?", so let me address that first. If you've ever read Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child', then you've caught a glimpse into the mind that drives one who is plagued with "insatiable curiosity"; they do odd things, like travel to the

Human-Protist Symbiotic Experiment

2007-06-22T10:47:00-05:00

We all have one, don't we? A favorite protist. One protozoa out of them all that just stands out in our minds as THE protozoa, the one that captures our imagination and intrigues us to no end. Well, I must say that personally I have a list of about five protozoa that are at the top, but one has just recently topped them all: Triconympha. Oh yes, Paramecium with his 'oral groove' and cilia-covered body is amazing to behold as he swi

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