Apologies again for the lack of posts, but I have been real busy at work completing another mach-ii app. So I thought I’d share a few details about this application that went live today. You won’t be able to publicly … Continue reading →

Ever wondered how Google does it's little "did you mean this..." when you carry out a search? Well we just put together something similar (though I am sure not quite as clever as the folks over at Google). From some … Continue reading →

One of the other completely new aspects of my job has been working with xmlHTTPRequest and XML/XSL transformation. And here are a few things that I learned during my last project: you can use conditional statements. W3schools proved very helpful … Continue reading →

I stumbled across the following command while reading this article: du --max-depth=1 --human-readable --total This gives you an estimated indication of your file space usage by folder. Here is some sample output: 12K ./lost+found 2.5M ./bin 84K ./dev 3.3M ./etc … Continue reading →

Here is a little script that parses the query strings of your URL so that you can use them in your JavaScript code: PLAIN TEXT JavaScript: // gvs - 19/7/2005 - retrieve values from URL to be appended to the … Continue reading →

I keep seeing this question pop up so for google's sake here is how you can kill sessions when the user closes his or her browser. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <!--- set session coookies ---> <cfif> <cfcookie name="cfid" value="#cookie.cfid#"> <cfcookie name="cftoken" … Continue reading →

I quite often find myself cycling through the history of commands I have typed in the console window and there can be quite a few commands stored there. John, part time philosopher and all round good bloke and extraordinary at … Continue reading →

A few week old now, but Doug over at Stop Design has come up with yet another invaluable little trick: when working with large style sheets it can be quite a lot of work to scroll through it in order … Continue reading →

maxEvents is used in the mach-ii framework primarily to help you not get into an infinite loop. Of course limiting the number of events can also land you in trouble as some request may require more events than currently set. … Continue reading →