Choosing The Right URL Structure
I've been working on the URL structure on the upcoming version of BlogEngine.NET. In the current version, the URL wasn't very pretty when viewing posts on certain dates or all posts in a month.

Date: 2007-12-20

Website Architecture's Backwards
Any application ever build have an architect designing it. That architect could be a software architect, lead developer or just a regular code monkey and probably all of them at some point...

Date: 2007-11-21

Getting All The Link Labels From A String In ColdFusion
A reader asked me how they could use regex to find all the link labels in a string. Not the links - but the label for the link. It is relatively easy to grab all the matches for a regex in ...

Date: 2007-11-08

ASP.NET - Tag Mapping
Recently I started working at ZYB and haven't seen all the code yet. Then the other day I fell over a special section in our web.config called tagMapping.

Date: 2007-10-11

Cookies & Unicode Characters
I've been having some issues with storing Unicode characters in cookies today. Whenever a cookie is set and the value filled with Unicode characters, the same characters cannot be retrieved from the cookie again.

Date: 2007-09-13

Google Takes AJAX Debugger Out of Beta
Google has long maintained that AJAX is the future (and the now) of the Web, and even refers to the click-and-wait method as "the yesterweb."

Date: 2007-08-31

Metadata Properties For CFFEED
When creating RSS feeds with the CFFEED tag, you can specify metadata properties for the feed that help describe the feed in general.

Date: 2007-08-23

Coldfusion: AutoSuggest Example
I've added autusuggest to ColdFusionBloggers.org and thought I'd talk a bit about how I did it (and about the problems I ran into).

Date: 2007-07-26

Share your opinions on information management for 30 Euro
To earn the 30 Euro, you will be asked up to nine questions at the start of the survey to determine if you are eligible to participate in this survey. Please note that survey participation is limited. This survey is being conducted by TNS, an independent research company.

Date: 2007-07-24

Firefox Still Gaining On IE
Firefox, the popular alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is picking up steam worldwide, gaining one percent in market share in the past six months.

Date: 2007-07-05

A Mashup Advertising Engine To Help Monetize Map Mashups
Google has laid the foundation for map mashup development -- more tools, more exposure... etc... Now there's a solution (Beta) to help put more cash in the pockets of developers and map publishers.

Date: 2007-06-14

A First Look At Railo
So I looked at Smith Project a short while ago. I decided to download and install the new Railo 1.1 Beta today to see what it has to offer.

Date: 2007-05-24

JMS Event Gateways
Someone asked on the BACFUG mailing list if you could use ColdFusion with MQ series to do JMS.
I responded that, yes, the example gateway supplied with CFMX 7 is completely generic and should work with any JMS 1.0.2 compliant server.

Date: 2007-05-03

Google AJAX Feed API
Calling all web developers, Google has just released the new Google AJAX Feed API which offers access to public data feeds through JavaScript.

Date: 2007-04-19

Microsoft Acquires devBiz Business Solutions
Microsoft announced it has acquired .NET software development company devBiz Solutions. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant plans to integrate devBiz's web client products into its Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS).

Date: 2007-03-29

ASP.NET: Access Client Info Server-side
I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser.

Date: 2007-03-08

Creating Reusable User Controls In ASP.NET
In almost every web project of any size, you would probably use a lot of user controls to separate the content and UI logic.

Date: 2007-02-22

Form Post In Spry
Last week or so I blogged about doing form postings with Spry. I was asked to provide a bit more documentation so I thought I'd show a slightly more detailed example.

Date: 2007-02-02

ASP.NET: A Simple Factory Using Generics
For about a week one of my readers asked me to simplify a piece of his code. The code was translating the different tags used by blog comments, such as [url][/url], [img][/img] etc. as we know from WordPress.

Date: 2007-01-11