Author Archives: Mike Hodgson

Recommended Android Apps

I’ve had my HTC Legend for about three weeks now, and thought I would share some of the more useful / interesting apps I’ve found. Please feel free to share your own in the comments!

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Experimenting with JRuby in Coldfusion

This is just a quick post, will post a longer one later when I’ve had more time to play. Before this will work, you’ll need to download and install JRuby, and copy jruby.jar from the installation directory to your Coldfusion … Continue reading

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Fix for Slow Windows 7 Install

Installed Windows 7 on my desktop this morning, and ran into a little issue. The installation was taking FOREVER, the install sat at “Setup is Starting…” for at least 10 minutes. A couple of quick tweaks later and I had it fixed. Posting here in case anyone else runs into similar issues. Continue reading

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Friday Challenge Solution – Randomize a Picture

Ray Camden’s Friday Challenge for this week was to take a photo and jumble it into 100 random blocks. Like those puzzles from when you were a kid. My solution written in pure CFScript can be found here. Matthew Abbott … Continue reading

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CFHTTP in Pure CFScript

Figured this out while I was working on my Coldfusion Twitter API component. I haven’t been able to find any examples elsewhere, so I thought I would post it here for others.

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