Marcos Placona on August 10th, 2010

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes We have just released a ColdFusion Survey to try and understand more about what are the actual ColdFusion developer’s perceptions. We’ll be giving away a free copy of CFWACK 9 Volumes 1 – 3 for a lucky person who successfully completes the survey. Take the survey here

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Marcos Placona on August 6th, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I’m delighted to say John Farrar has released his new ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial book, and it’s now available from all the major retailers around the world. I’ve already ordered mine, and am expecting to get it at some time next week. In the meantime, I’ll start reading the [...]

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Marcos Placona on June 30th, 2010

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Photo by: cote It came to my attention today that one of the most famous ColdFusion conferences, CFUnited,  will cease to exist from 2011 onwards. While the fact that one of the most important and longest running ColdFusion conferences in the world will not be around next year deeply [...]

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Marcos Placona on May 3rd, 2010

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Photo by: gagilas As previously promised, today I’ll be publishing my migration scrips from Mango Blog to WordPress. As mentioned previously, I wrote this script entirely for my own benefit, so please excuse me if it doesn’t meet your expectations. It has only been tested on mySQL, but should [...]

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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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