Drewcorp Coding and Technology

I hope the title is clear enough to help people search for this. I’ve spent the last few days creating an application for myself to keep track of services performed and clients. I was making a simple “client search” form when I found I was getting inconsistent DB results. Sometimes the results would show up, [...]

I started creating a program for a good friend of mine about a month ago in my spare time. Essentially it’s a territory assignment program that assigns specific addresses in a territory to be called on by a field service agent. This territory would be then un-assigned when completed and the agent would move on [...]

I was recently working on a social network back-end when I came across a problem. There was a users table, and these users had to have the option of “friending” each other. And so I created a “connections” table, which associated user to user. There were a few extra pieces but essentially what I ended [...]

Ok this has been done before, but everything I’ve read up until now seemed incomplete to me, although what is available was very instructive. For example, Ben Forta’s blog covers Reading MP3 ID3 tags with ColdFusion, while Rupesh Kumar covered Reading MP3 Meta-data from ColdFusion. At first glance the titles almost look like they’re talking [...]

I just created my first Hello World page in ColdFusion. This seems like a strange step backwards to me but firstly I had never made one before (again, because it was too simple to even bother), and I was trying to verify that my local ColdFusion environment was functioning properly. Just wiped my laptop again [...]

This is as much for my own posterity as for any readers who haven’t read it, John Whish’s “Why Use ColdFusion?” post. I’d like to keep this on record for any clients asking me the same question.

One of the projects I’m working on has a number of disk space requirements and I decided to play around with CFCHART to give me an “at-a-glance” idea how much space is left on the drive without having to go into the server backend. I mostly used tips from Ray Camden’s site here. Not much [...]

This probably isn’t new but it’s new to me. Developing Adobe ColdFusion 9 Applications A new document released to assist in development of CF9 applications. It has today’s date on it, so I’m pretty sure it’s new.

I am an apprentice programmer. A ColdFusion Padawan. I realize that now. Up until recently, if something code needed writing, I simply wrote it. I did not consider whether there could be another way, or if I was duplicating code. I simply wrote it and tested it until it worked. I was first introduced to [...]

So I took some time off to get some work done. dColumbus and I cranked together some great work in record time. Having him do the forms in Flex in itself saved me days of work, and I must say the end product is something we’re both quite proud of. But due to the downturn [...]