http://www.mattjanell.com a blog en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:41 -0700 Mon, 24 May 2010 10:50:00 -0700 MachBlog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mgw4jc@gmail.com mgw4jc@gmail.com http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=CB77ACA9-F535-E746-9C33025082B2722E NCDevCon in Raleigh this past weekend went well. Dan Wilson, Jim Priest and many volunteers orchestrated a good conference for the second time. I think the fact that it is free to attendees testifies to what can be accomplished with a some hard work.... CF General javascript Mon, 24 May 2010 10:50:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=CB77ACA9-F535-E746-9C33025082B2722E http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B5EBBF4F-0C02-AEAF-607ECCAD91A37089 I believe this behavior is as expected, however it can break code that worked in CF 8. Not so much break as in get errors, but you will get the wrong data, which is worse really. Similar issues have been discussed and maybe even raised on the bug tra... CF General Thu, 20 May 2010 05:19:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B5EBBF4F-0C02-AEAF-607ECCAD91A37089 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B23A9D74-B6D3-730A-ED936CB100A07878 I'll be speaking this weekend at the North Carolina Developer's Conference (NCDevCon) about using jQuery and AJAX in Forms. It will be a hands on workshop so participants can learn by doing. It is geared toward the jQuery beginner. I have a few basic... CF General javascript Wed, 19 May 2010 05:21:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B23A9D74-B6D3-730A-ED936CB100A07878 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=102CE5C9-DDBE-57B0-6879FF66B3F0BE3C I created a breadcrumb filter to work in Mach-II a while back. The Google Group list had a question or two about this, so here's what I have. Example code can be downloaded below (see Download Enclosure). See also: [ DEMO ] To use the fil... CF General Mach II Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:16:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=102CE5C9-DDBE-57B0-6879FF66B3F0BE3C http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=939A3C1D-F142-E64D-A454C2DA218AC2A2 The past week or so I've been upgrading an app to Mach II version 1.6 and CF 8. The first task was to take advantage of cfthread for some auditing. Basically just like a hit counter we have an audit filter that logs when certain events are requested.... CF General Mach II Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:41:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=939A3C1D-F142-E64D-A454C2DA218AC2A2 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1DF083D6-F14D-31CD-FE06CEEF679B1FCA This is a post I just made on the Mach II google group list. Someone there is looking at MachBlog code to learn about Mach II. He had a question about calling the getUserByID() function and how it gets the data from the database. -From the admin, wh... Mach II Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:23:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1DF083D6-F14D-31CD-FE06CEEF679B1FCA http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B3F69E95-B09F-3A2C-A6FC7A973FE40F52 Just a note to encourage anyone considering moving to SVN to go for it. I just had an issue today where a drop down menu got all whacked out, though nobody had touched the page. I was able to use SVN to roll back a few revisions to where the menu was... SVN Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:30:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B3F69E95-B09F-3A2C-A6FC7A973FE40F52 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A84BC04E-F412-5221-D70CE82E39BABC47 Though this seems like a no-brainer, I want to blog it for future reference as it isn't something I do often enough to remember the solution. Perhaps others will find it useful too. Basically I wanted to simultaneously run the trunk version and a br... CF General Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:02:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A84BC04E-F412-5221-D70CE82E39BABC47 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=8D9794C5-BEB5-0728-BD978DF04BB823E7 My task was to auto-correct date entry from possible entry such as this: 1/1/08 1-1-08 to this: 1/1/2008. So I'm doing two things here, swapping dashes for slashes and fixing 2 digit years to 4 digits. First, I lifted code from a comment in th... javascript Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:38:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=8D9794C5-BEB5-0728-BD978DF04BB823E7 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6F2486F4-936B-963D-2C86E3A1FBE2A46B I have revived my blog from the mattw.mxdj.com site. I hope to get some more CF / web application type posts up soon. All the good entries from the old blog are here, see the categories at right for those. other Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:55:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6F2486F4-936B-963D-2C86E3A1FBE2A46B http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4CFBA9-ABD0-E836-CCDB8E62EF461872 eCivis, the company I work for, is now looking for a Senior CF developer. The person hired will work with a team of 3 other developers and within a broader team of QA specialists and project managers. The work is primarily on internal ... Work/Job Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:55:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4CFBA9-ABD0-E836-CCDB8E62EF461872 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4B075B-B6EE-41E5-A36E95A28DF1072A Just an update on using jXLS. In my last post about it I said I haven't yet attempted an Excel file with multiple sheets. Well I just did and it works with no further code changes on my end. You simply put additional tag markup in a second sh... Excel Java Utilities Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:53:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4B075B-B6EE-41E5-A36E95A28DF1072A http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4A44B7-FC90-AEDF-DA2F8FDB1459B483 A couple of weeks ago at the Nashvile CFUG Steve Bryant presented on his Data Manager product. It is a set of CFCs that helps abstract your database layer, reducing the amount of SQL you have to write. It also has a nice feature known as Synchronize ... CFUG Database Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:52:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B4A44B7-FC90-AEDF-DA2F8FDB1459B483 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B493402-DB69-76F1-1AD5A6E6E433D4B9 In my last post I described the what and why of jXLS. So now let's see what you have to do to use it. I mentioned you will need 2 java packages. The first is the jXLS package itself. The second is one that is required by jXLS, Commons JEXL. See ... Excel Java Utilities Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:45:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B493402-DB69-76F1-1AD5A6E6E433D4B9 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B41F650-BE4C-DB5B-F488DA0A1CF76C95 If the title of this post is familiar, it's because I copied and pasted it from a post by Ben Nadel on Feb. 19. He has been building a Utility cfc that helps you use the included-with-ColdFusion java library that works with Microsoft Excel files (aka... Excel Java Utilities Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:42:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B41F650-BE4C-DB5B-F488DA0A1CF76C95 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B407E75-0F0D-C9B4-3AB62285F2EF092C Last summer I played with Fusion Debug when it first came out. I liked it but didn't have enough time to get a decent understanding. Then in October I won a license during a online training session. Unfortunately, due to moving, holidays, mo... CF General Debug Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:40:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B407E75-0F0D-C9B4-3AB62285F2EF092C http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3E53F4-C32F-7884-3AB5C7D5733EDFBE First the about me. My last post (almost 3 months ago) mentioned me quitting. and starting my own business. I did quit, but accepted a full-time position with a different company. In addition, my wife and I decided to move to Kentucky. I ... CF General Work/Job Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:38:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3E53F4-C32F-7884-3AB5C7D5733EDFBE http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3CFE57-E408-4140-23915FBC5349D56F This afternoon at work I turned in my resignation. I plan to start my own business and become a full-time, self-emloyed, freelance web developer. This is due - in large part - to the many contract opportunities presenting themselves in the past se... Work/Job Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:37:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3CFE57-E408-4140-23915FBC5349D56F http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3C1157-AB45-41E0-3C4A41F30F52B0F8 Big thanks to Steven Erat, Charlie Arehart and the folks at Fusion Reactor for last week's CF Online Meetup. Charlie gave a great overview of Fusion Debug's capabilities. If you aren't familiar with Fusion Debug, check out the website. A ... CF General CFUG Debug Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:36:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3C1157-AB45-41E0-3C4A41F30F52B0F8 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3AC157-ED78-78B1-E3614972D6738F2F Forget all the major feature type of stuff everyone is asking for in CF 8. I just want some minor conveniences...<cfloop query="myQuery" GROUP="someField">  - So I don't have to close my <cfoutput> do a cfoutpu... CF General Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:35:00 -0700 http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6B3AC157-ED78-78B1-E3614972D6738F2F