Scott Pinkston Coldfusion, Flex, tv, xbox360 and other normal things

jQuery Cycle provides a lightweight slideshow plugin. It is super simple to drop in and create a great looking slideshow. The real trick to is to ColdFusion to grab the images from a directory then randomly sort the results to create a unique slideshow for each visitor. Production sites may need

Day one and great so far. I was using Tiny Twitter for my Windows Mobile client. It worked well but had some odd little features such as displaying the avatar fullscreen covering the content. It was also a bit heavy on memory. I wasn't really looking for another client but noticed the applicat

Open source saves lives, closed source is evil. We have all encountered encrypted or pre-compiled Java bytecode cfm/cfc files. Seldom times the original developers have left us options to change links, rename fields, change form action pages, add form fields, and even hide sections of the pages. W

So you have that fancy ColdFusion application of yours using ldap authentication back to either an active directory or OpenLDAP/Samba server. Everyone is happy, shared authentication works perfectly. Life is great, you're the hero. Suddenly you start getting messages from users, some of them can'

This is a fine example of the wisdom you are missing out on by not hanging out in the #coldfusion IRC room. [ScottP]: something off with netflix - suggested Evan Almighty because I enjoyed Armageddon, Day after Tomorrow, Collateral Damage. [CJ]: evan almighty had steve carrell. steve carrell w

Just in time for the holiday, Microsoft has issued an advisory announcing a vulnerability in SQL Server that could allow Remote Code Execution. Microsoft Security Advisory: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961040.mspx A temp fix (WARNING ***BREAKS REPLICATION***) EXECUTE maste

The DB servers all have cool little tricks to randomly sort the records, for example on SQL Server it is simply order by NewID(). Trouble is I had a small table with a very limited number of records in it and needed them randomly sorted for each page view. I didn't think it was something the DB se

Stumbled across this peach. A little used resize page was tossing errors. Instead of looking for a solution, I ripped through the code trying to figure out where I had screwed up. Turns out I didn't. Lesson learned - again. Patch for CFImage and Image functions in ColdFusion 8.0.1 Issue CFIma

I ran into an issue with VPN connections routing the traffic through the VPN connection regardless of the configuration setting. I would uncheck the box label Send all traffic over VPN connection, fire up the VPN link and be rewarded with all of the traffic going out over the VPN link. After makin