http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm A blog about web development, Rich Internet Applications, Coldfusion, AJAX, Javascript, and various other technologies and topics. en-us Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:04:49 +0200 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:50:00 +0200 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss gary@garyrgilbert.com gary@garyrgilbert.com gary@garyrgilbert.com http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm yes http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/3/8/Review-Railo-3-Beginners-Guide The first Railo book Railo 3 Beginner's Guide, and hopefully not the last, was published by Packt Publishing sometime near the end of December, and while it's taken a bit of time a copy finally arrived last week for me to review. I've already po... Railo Book Review Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:50:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/3/8/Review-Railo-3-Beginners-Guide http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/16/JavaScript-Expert-Needed We have an immediate need in Munich, Germany for a JavaScript expert. The candidate must have extensive interface design skills and strong familiarity working with js frameworks such as jQuery. Being able to understand and communicate in German a ... Javascript JQuery Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:29:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/16/JavaScript-Expert-Needed http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/15/oAuth-Update-on-Riaforge Just a quick note, we have updated the oAuth implementation on riaforge. There was a small bug in the toHeader() function the oAuth prefix was not being prepended to the authentication string. I also put together a new simple "Test Harness" to te... oAuth Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:02:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/15/oAuth-Update-on-Riaforge http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/24/SerializeJson-Sucks-II I want to thank those of you who read my rant and added your opinions, questions and corrections (Thanks Nic loosely typed of course :) ) Letting of steam certainly helps and getting feedback helps focus too. Thanks Kai, I will attempt to clar... [More] CFML Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:06:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/24/SerializeJson-Sucks-II http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/23/Coldfusions-SerializeJson-Sucks If I recall correctly CFML is a typeless language. I mean we can really all agree that Coldfusion is typeless right? Ok now that we have that out of the way lets talk about Adobe's implementation of serializejson(). Serializejson is simply trying... Railo Coldfusion Rant Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:57:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/23/Coldfusions-SerializeJson-Sucks http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/2/Structkeyexists-or-Yes-No-Maybe-So Perhaps I'm just being picky here but why do some functions in CF return a boolean (true/false) and others return a boolean (yes/no)? For example StruckKeyExists() is one such culprit it returns a Yes or a No, which in CF is boolean. The problem ... [More] CFML Rant CF Community Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:44:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/2/Structkeyexists-or-Yes-No-Maybe-So http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/9/8/Book-review-Coldfusion-9-Developer-Tutorial I've just received an updated copy of John Farrar's Developer Tutorial Book for Coldfusion 9 from Packt Publishing. I've not yet had the time to dive into the book yet as work has been insane busy but I'll try to get a "real" review of the book in t... [More] misc Book Review Mango Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:27:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/9/8/Book-review-Coldfusion-9-Developer-Tutorial http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/28/Some-Thoughs-on-CFUnited [OK something is going weird with blog CFC going to have to finally make the move to mango when I get back to Germany] I'm kind of sad really. My first "major" speaking engagement happens to be at the last official CFUnited. Perhaps it's just me... CFUnited Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/28/Some-Thoughs-on-CFUnited http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/14/Converting-structkeys-to-lowercase As you most probably know when you create a structure and don't quote the keys they are automatically converted to uppercase. When you dump it out you get: and when you serialize it to json all the keys are also uppercase. Th... CFML Examples Ajax Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:49:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/14/Converting-structkeys-to-lowercase http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/1/Pushing-the-Pause-Button As you may have noticed not much has changed on my blog in a while. A couple of entries ago I called it writers block. But it's not really writers block at all. I have been quite busy at work working on several new software features and working... misc Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:38:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/1/Pushing-the-Pause-Button http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/5/27/Flash-101-for-Mobile-beta I read an article yesterday by Nick Saint on Flash for Smartphones, Nick claims that its terrible. He does add the caveat that it's still in beta, and the video he does to show some of the functionality isn't bad, but his speed comparison for page... [More] Android Flash iPhone Thu, 27 May 2010 00:29:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/5/27/Flash-101-for-Mobile-beta http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/5/23/A-Long-Trip Been a long vacation but I am finally heading back home. Just getting ready to pack my suitcases and head home. Funny I decided to check my blog today because I received an error report and I noticed that the front page has that lovely message th... misc Sun, 23 May 2010 03:32:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/5/23/A-Long-Trip http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/10/A-Case-of-Writers-Block It's been awfully quiet on the blogging front here lately and to be perfectly honest I'm having a major case of writers block combined with quite a bit of work both at work and at home. Time, at the moment, is playing against me and robbing me of th... misc Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:57:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/10/A-Case-of-Writers-Block http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/2/Solaris-10-No-Longer-Free On Tuesday I read an article in the German IT news portal indicating that Sun Oracle has changed the licensing agreement for Solaris 10. It will no longer be free after a 90 day evaluation period, if you wish to continue using the OS you must sign a... [More] Open Source Oracle Sun Microsystems Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:13:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/2/Solaris-10-No-Longer-Free http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/29/Apple-iPad-plagued-with-delays It looks as though Apples new wonder child the iPad is having it's first teething woes even before it's official birth. Both WLAN and UMTS versions of the iPad are supposed to go on sale on April 3rd in the USA but it looks like the more expensive... iPad Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:53:00 +0200 http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/29/Apple-iPad-plagued-with-delays