The unreliable Internet Explorer

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I was stuck with this problem today, and thought I should write a blog post about it, so should anyone encounter the same thing, they won't waste time trying to track exactly what's happening.

Basically it was flagged to me this morning by my project manager that when you tried to submit a form that calls for a report generation using the enter key, the report would not be generated.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:29 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Technology

CFML 101 - Grouping arrays for column presentation

This is an idea I got from a Ruby on Rails extension called in_groups_of.

Basically the idea behind this method, is to be able to get an array of any size, and split it up in groups of arrays with smaller sizes.

One application that keeps coming back over and over again, is the ability to display tabular data in columns instead of rows.

Imagine the following array as an example:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 3:00 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | CFML - 101

CFEclipse 1.3.5 - Bug found + workaround

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:10 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | CFML - 101

CFEclipse 1.3.5 Released

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It just came to my attention that CFEclipse 1.3.5 has been released, and as usual I am a bit late announcing it.

From the what's new page, we can see that loads have been added to it, but the highlights in my opinion are:

1. Proposal Categories
2. Function Proposals
3. An option to automatically format code
4. Occurrence marking, which will automatically highlight all the occurrences of a selected string
5. Opening Files from the OS (CFEclipseCall)

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:43 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | CFML - 101