DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources

Validating IP Address Format

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:59:00 +0100

Anuj Gakhar has blogged about a way to validate the format of an IP address.

Search Engine Sitemap Update

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:54:00 +0100

Jason Bartholme has a neat posting on pinging search engines sites when your sitemap is updated.

Changes - A New Diff Tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:51:00 +0100

Checkout Changes, a new diff tool for Mac OS X Leopard.

DTD For ANT

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:05:00 +0100

Seems like a DTD for Ant is hard to come by. The Ant site had a FAQ on the subject. Which points you to Michel Casabianca's Ant DTD attempt.

No XML Fusebox 5.5

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:06:00 +0100

I need to start experimenting with the new noxml mode of Fusebox 5.5 soon. Here's a blog entry which notes some interesting ideas.

Logout User

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:56:00 +0100

Logging out a user can normally be a simple matter of <cfset StructClear(session) /> but sometime you might want to do more. So what not invoke the onSessionEnd() method in the Application.cfc and clear the session plus whatever else you want to do.

Dave Shuck sums it up neatly.

Designing Flex applications with Fireworks CS3

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:42:00 +0100

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/designing_flex_apps.html

Datejs

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:58:00 +0100

Datejs looks like a powerful JavaScript date library.

CFForm and Spry Form Validation

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:52:00 +0100

Devon "Deebo" Burriss points out that you can use Spry form validation with CFForm.

Image Functions and Text Sizing

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:40:00 +0100

Ben Nadel and Ray Camden have posted a new project on RIA Forge to provide a number of image functions using the new features of ColdFusion 8 and Dave Shuck has some interesting observations on determing the size of a text block produced by the new image functions.

Ant and Eclipse

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:09:00 +0100

Andy Scott has some interesting ideas on associating Ant build scripts with an Eclipse project.

CFEclipse Keyboard Shortcuts

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:07:00 +0100

http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/ShortcutKeys

How to Return Data to Flex from ColdFusion

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0100

I'm not sure how to use this yet but this seems to be the agreed wisdom on how to return data to Flex from ColdFusion.

Flex and SEO

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:25:00 +0100

Ted Patrick has blooged about his Flex SEO experiments.

Pulse

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:16:00 +0100

Pulse is an online Eclipse config service. Geoff Bowers has blogged an easy way to extend it.