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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:03:00 +0100

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Rounding image corners in CF8

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:39:00 +0100

I'm currently working on a site where the staff can upload images for display. Part of the design requirement, is that the corners of these images are rounded off. Step forward coldfuson 8...

Image support in coldfusion was long overdue. Although there were some very good 3rd party components (such as the Alagad Image Component), there should have been something bundled with coldfusion many versions ago. Coldfusion 8 comes with the new <cfimage> tag and dozens of image manipulation and drawing functions. So drawing rounded corners should be easy?

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SQL Injection Attack going around

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:26:00 +0100

I would imagine that most developers are already aware of this by now, but for those who haven't heard, there's a nasty sql injection attack going around. Details are here and you'll find plenty more on google: http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/sql-injection-hack-using-cast.html

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Browser Bugs in IIS Logs

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:43:00 +0100

I spent several hours today wading through IIS access logs. Not the most fun part to my job, but sometimes necessary. During the course of it though, I found a subtle difference with the way clients (browsers) pass the information that goes into these logs. Hopefully it will be of use to someone else.

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Developer, Project Management and Sales Jobs in Coventry

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:48:00 +0100

A digital solutions company I've recently being doing work for in Coventry are on a requirement drive just now.

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How to tweak IIS to improve your coldfusion sites' performance

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:36:00 +0100

Following on from yesterday's review of High Performance Web Sites, I had a quick go with YSlow, to see where I could optimise this site.

The starting point was a respectable score of C(71) for the home-page. The first rule that didn't score well was number 2: Use a Content Delivery Network. A CDN is over-kill for a blog, so that left me looking at the following rules 3 (Add Expires Header), 4 (Gzip components) and 13 (Configure Etags).

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coldfusion 64-bit - doesn't support standard edition

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:31:00 +0100

I've been running a Windows 2003 64-bit server for almost a year now. When I bought it, it didn't actually occur to me that coldfusion wouldn't support this. As it was, it was easy enough to get coldfusion 7 standard running with a little help from Ben's blog entry.

I've always assumed though that there must be some performance loss with this method. I therefore looked forward to the 64 bit support promised with coldfusion 8

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