Marcos Placona on February 4th, 2010

 
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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Marcos Placona on February 2nd, 2010

Bug found on CFEclipse 1.3.5
(Photo: slowdown)

I tried reporting this on track, but it wouldn’t let me register for some reason.

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Marcos Placona on February 2nd, 2010

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes (Photo: TalkingTree) 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: Proposal Categories Function [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 12th, 2009

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Railo 3.1.1.000 has just been released and is available at www.getrailo.org From the changelogs: [ RAILO-163 ] cfexecute and arguments containing spaces (Linux) [ RAILO-257 ] Railo will not start – start/stop shells contain ^M characters [ RAILO-275 ] Binary arguments to Railo treated as array [ RAILO-302 ] [...]

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Marcos Placona on June 21st, 2009

So I’ve been playing with Google App Engines, and decided to create two projects in favour of our beloved ColdFusion.
I know there’s tons of that stuff around the web, but I wanted to make one that would actually help people from all levels. I’ll put their URL’s here first, so you can cease your curiosity, and then I’ll explain more as we go.

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