Category: Development

FireFox in Search of Guinness World Record

Thats right. When FireFox 3 goes live sometime in June they are hoping to declare a "download day" and set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours. You can check out their FireFox Download Day Headquarters where you can pledge your allegence to the rebel forces, I mean FF.

I have to say, I've been using FF3 since beta 2 and I think it is a huge improvment over FF2 and for the first time a huge improvement over IE7. I have to admit I couldn't get on the FireFox bandwagon until this release came out. Now I can't wait for it to go live so the rest of these small bugs can go away and more plugin developers update to the new version campatability.

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:35 AM - Categories: Development

Running Multiple Versions of Firefox

Having recently switched to using Firefox and having always complained about Microsoft's PIA move by making it so difficult to run multiple version of IE at one, I was suprised to find that FireFox has the same stupid issue. Fire fox uses the same default non segrated profile path for every version.

The Fix (same idea for win and mac I believe):

Run c:\{your Firefox path}\firefox -profilemanager -no-remote

Create a 2 new profiles, I called mine FireFox3Rc1 and Firefox2. Use alpha-numeric and stay away from spaces. Once you've created them go ahead and exit.

Now you must modify the shortcuts for firefox, respectfully.

c:\{FF2 Path}firefox.exe -P FireFox3 -no-remote
c:\{FF3 Path}firefox.exe -P FireFox3RC1 -no-remote

Technically there is no need to change profiles for both FF version. But I'm assuming I'll even have a 3rd version here of FF3 soon and I hate using default profile paths...

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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 3:06 PM - Categories: Debugging | Development

Wow, sorry for the feed dump!

Due to server and software changes my blog paths were no longer the same and I stopped getting aggregated by Adobe Feed/MXNA. I ignored this aside from an email that didn't get me anywhere; until this afternoon. With the new feeds software the feeds list actualy worked and I found out what URL Adobe was looking for my feed at. A quick 301 error inside a cfif tag fixed my problems...

Unfortunetly the result was ALL of my posts showing up in Adobe feeds at the top all at once. For this I apologize, I had figuered it would go off my modified or posted date, not when it read it for the first time...

<cfif url.event EQ "showBlogRss">
    <cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved Permanently">
    <cfheader
          name="Location"
          value="http://www.EmpireGPServices.com/blog/feeds/rss.cfm"
    />
    <cfabort>
</cfif>

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 4:27 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Debugging | Development | General News

ColdFusion 9 Feature Request: Drop Ajax/JS libraries

Yes, I said it. Going forward I do not think that Adobe should waste time on implementing JS Code libraries. Ext, YUI and others exist so you can easily integrate them into your code already. In the last few months alone I believe there have been 2 or 3 version upgrades alone of the Yahoo YUI tool and a 1 major version upgrade for Ext.

If you want to have an AJAX driven drop down, write it yourself or download a custom tag, or better yet; write the custom tag yourself and distribute it freely. I would much rather see the time spent by engineers working on ColdFusion spent working on the server side portion of ColdFusion vs. doing these seemingly 'cool' integrations. Don't custom tags exist for this purpose alone? Why build it into a server side product?

I'm tired of seeing posts and emails and requests to implement further feature sets, upgrade versions or change libraries all together. ColdFusion does not need to be my meeting ground of technology. If you had spent 2 more minutes writing your code you could have implemented the Ext library yourself, probably done a better job and you won't be beholden to a server side technology for your client side code...

Flame on

 

24 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:35 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | YUI | JavaScript

New Version of Feed Ping for Mango Blog

I have made some more updates to my Auto Ping Plugin (1.1). I'm much happier with this version. I've included more hardcoded XML-RPC options as well as adding 5 custom XML-RPC url options. There is now a logging option that was a 1.05 feature. for right now I just put a FeedPingLog.txt into the root of the website. I will probably put this in a better place at a later time.

The new built in list contains: BlogFlux, BlogShares, BlogRolling, BulkFeeds, Feed Burner, Google, Ice Rocket, Moreover, Ping-o-Matic, Syndic8, Technorati, Weblogs and Yahoo.

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

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2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:40 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

Download my Mango Theme

I'm not sure if anyone would be interested but I've wrapped up my enhanced skin and I'm making it available to anyone who wants it. I liked the Nautica 05 skin that came with Mango, but it was just a little too chunky for me.

A few of my changes include

• Shrunk top image giving more room for vertical text
• Added a text-bubble to the image for your blog's description
• Move the search to the top right of the page
• Added links for RSS and Atom instead of just RSS
• I have removed the left nav bar on sub pages and only show children elements
• Main nav bar hight is shorter giving again more vertical space
• And I can't forget my amazing 1bit pedestrian
  

 

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:38 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

New Mango Blog Plugin: Auto Ping

I've created a new plugin for the ColdFusion Blog Mango. I've recently switched to this blog software and I am very impressed with it so far. I quickly whipped up this plugin last night so I could regain the auto-ping feature I remember having in BlogCFC.

The plugin it's self was VERY simple to write and from looking at thier documentation the limits are endless.

Included is the ability to ping 5 hand written URLs (like MXNA) and several XML-RPC sites, although right now the list is small. I will be updating this in the future and adding many more I hope. I'm certainly willing to take any suggestions on which ones are used the most.

• Technorati
• Ice Rocket
• Weblogs
  

 

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:12 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog