BlogCFC: Extend the life of your blog posts

Posted At : July 12, 2008 7:25 PM | Posted By : Kalen
Related Categories: Coldfusion

If your a BlogCFC user but don't post too often, like me, then you've probably seen the following message pop up on your blog:

Sorry There are no blog entries available.

By default, BlogCFC shows only entries posted within the last 30 days. If you'd like to extend this, simply locate the tags folder in your BlogCFC root and find getmode.cfm. Around line 68 you'll find the following declaration:

params.lastxdays = 30

Simply change 30 to the number of days you'd like new entries to stay on the homepage and you're set, your blog will no longer look sad and abandoned.

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Yet another reason for disappearing background images in IE6

Posted At : June 10, 2008 8:57 PM | Posted By : Kalen
Related Categories: Bugs,JavaScript

I was bit by another IE bug the other day; no matter how much I work with IE I never seem to be immune. That may be due to the fact that IE has sooo many problems. On this occasion several background images were disappearing in IE6. I tried the common solutions first: relative positioning, removing floats, setting widths, etc. and nothing worked. It took me quite a while to uncover the culprit.

href="javascript: void(0);"

I was using it in a common manner:

<a href="javascript: void(0);" onclick="switchTabs('comments')">Comments</a>

Once I removed the href="javascript: void(0);" from the link everything worked fine. I had searched the Internet for days trying to find the solution to this bug and never found a thing. This is probably because not too many people use href="javascript: void(0);"... and now I know why.

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Verizon Wireless Media Store

Posted At : June 6, 2008 11:14 PM | Posted By : Kalen
Related Categories: Flex

The Verizon Wireless Media Store is another pretty impressive website built with Flex. It's nice to see more and more large corporations adopting the technology. In my eyes, the less I have to deal with JavaScript, CSS, and browser incompatibilities, the better. Bravo Verizon.

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jQuery is even faster with the release of version 1.2.6

Posted At : June 6, 2008 10:20 PM | Posted By : Kalen
Related Categories: JavaScript

I love jQuery. I've been getting into it over the past few weeks, and I've found it to be a very powerful and robust library. I remember how impressed I was when jQuery 1.1.3 came out less than a year ago, claiming to be 800% faster than its predecessor. Well, the fellows at jQuery have just released jQuery 1.2.6 and have again made some pretty significant improvements. Beside adding new functionality and fixing bugs they have increased the performance on several key features of the library; for more details check out their Google Spreadsheet.

Event Handling is 103% Faster
CSS Selectors are 13% faster
.offset() is 21% faster
.css() is 25% faster

I'm excited to try out the new version for myself. If you haven't checked out jQuery lately you should give jQuery 1.2.6 a try, it's amazing.

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