ConvertDotNetDataset()

Part of my work right now deals with going between .NET and ColdFusion, and I hit a point where I needed ColdFusion to consume a .NET DataSet. I couldn't change the .NET service, so I wrote a UDF that converts .NET DataSets into ColdFusion Queries. Thanks to Erik Giberti at the National Wildlife Federation for his early work with this - I've expanded upon his ideas to be a little faster and support multi-table DataSets. You can download the UDF at http://clearsoftware.net/client/convertDotNetDataset.cfm.

5 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:14 AM - Categories: .NET and ColdFusion

Railo: The other, other CFML engine

I got an e-mail this morning from some folks at Railo announcing a new version. The tag implementation list is getting long, and this new version is supposed to have "many performance boosts." While I don't want to go back to a world w/o CFC's, does anyone have experience implementing Railo? Good, bad, ugly?

Also, the chicken photos they choose for their homepage continue to be interesting...first it was a blue chicken, then a newly hatched chicken on fire, then a three headed chicken, and now we're supposed to play tennis, using the chick as a ball?

3 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:25 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX

jSelect Preview: Live from Texas

I'm on the road in Texas and have a little time to kill, so I've worked a little bit on the next jComponent. The jSelect is a GMail-inspired select / combo / autocomplete box. It's still got layout flaws, but the central logic is there, and I wanted to share it and ask for feedback. If you're interested, please take a look at it at http://clearsoftware.net/client/jComponentsJSelectPreview.cfm and leave a comment or e-mail me.

9 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 10:22 PM - Categories: jComponents

jComponents: #1 Rated, with new tags coming!

The Macromedia ColdFusion Exchange has jComponents as #1 user rated under Custom Tags > User Interface, standing at #3 overall! Also, there are two new tags coming: a query-driven GMail style autocomplete / combo box, and a DHTML menu. Woot.

Find out more about the jComponents tags.

7 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:37 AM - Categories: jComponents

SQL 101: JOINs and Grouping.

One of the most commonly posted themes to CF mailing lists I see is "How can I combine these queries into one?" The post usually goes something like this:

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0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:35 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX

Personal Site?

Yep, so I can air stuff that isn't CF related without annoying everyone on MXNA and fullAsAGoog.

0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:55 PM - Categories: