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Archive for February, 2009
ColdFusion & .NET: Resizing the Height of an Image
After last week's post on resizing images in ColdFusion and .NET based on width, someone contacted me and asked me about resizing the image based on height. So below is how you accomplish that in ColdFusion and in .NET. First in ColdFusion: The .NET function is very similar to the function we covered last week [...]
Top Twitter Clients
I just saw this article on Mashable, and something caught my eye. Two out of the top 4 clients are Adobe AIR based applications. TweetDeck is #2 and Twhirl is #4. I've been using Twhirl for a little while now, but I plan to check out TweetDeck soon. These kinds of apps are perfect uses [...]
ColdFusion & .NET: Resizing the Width of an Image
This is my first post comparing some functionality and code between ColdFusion and .NET. For all of posts in this series I am running ColdFusion 8 Enterprise and the 3.5 .NET Framework. All of the sample code I will be showing for .NET is written in C#. Sorry if you were looking for VB examples! [...]
Comparing ColdFusion and ASP.NET
Just wanted to let everyone know I will be starting a series of weekly posts on comparing ColdFusion and ASP.NET. Comparing may not be the best word for it, as I will be showing code snippets in Coldusion and then showing code in ASP.NET that accomplishes the same task. I am by no means an [...]
Update to Yesterday’s Browser Post
I saw this little stat on Lifehacker this morning to add to yesterday's post about the browser market. Microsoft released a beta version of IE8 a few weeks ago, and it already has the market share that Google Chrome does. So folks must really be wanting to check out IE8 or as the Lifehacker post [...]
Browser Wars Getting Closer
With the growing number of web browsers out today it proves a tough challenge to develop across all browsers. I try to keep tabs on the current browser share in the market, to make sure you can at least cater to the masses. A look at the latest numbers shows that Internet Explorer is still [...]
Resolving SQL Server Deadlocks with SQL Profiler
I have blogged about the wonderful use of the SQL Profiler in SQL Server before. The guys over at SQLServerCentral.com have another article with some awesome tips on using the Profiler to determine where deadlocks occur and in one particular case how to solve them. Fantastic read if you do a lot of work with [...]
White House Site Redesign
Smashing Magazine has a wonderful article today about the redesign of WhiteHouse.gov. The first point they make is often one that most folks do not think about. The White House is an actual brand name. They also point out the differences in the new Barack Obama site compared to the site under George Bush. It's [...]
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