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Recent Blog Comments By George Bridgeman

• GetPageContext() Is Template Specific, Not Request Specific

  Posted on Aug 22, 2007 at 12:07 PM

  I wasn't particularly clear :s GetPageContext() returns an object that gives the page the tools it needs to do its job... things like the request, response, scopes, session, etc. Each template will have its own page context as it has its own scopes, attributes, etc, so you get the same ob... read more »

• GetPageContext() Is Template Specific, Not Request Specific

  Posted on Aug 22, 2007 at 10:53 AM

  It is indeed page specific. The clue is in the name ;) To get the underlying request object, do GetPageContext().getRequest() The page context is a PageContext java object. Look at the javadoc here: read more »

• I Just Can't Understand Object Oriented Programming (OOP) And Join Tables

  Posted on Aug 17, 2007 at 10:59 AM

  You've only got one object. The practice. I don't think you need your join table at all. Just add a parentid column to your practice table. Using that, if you're after all the children records for a given practice, you can do something like: select ... from pract... read more »

• Selecting Contrasting Text Color Based On Background Color

  Posted on Aug 13, 2007 at 6:19 PM

  I ported a Perl script to CF to generate a colour cube for a specified number of colours. It'll generate a nice gradient of colours for you and use the brightness test on the W3 site to decide whether to colour the text black or white. I needed this to make sure that no two colours on my treemap... read more »

• Selecting Contrasting Text Color Based On Background Color

  Posted on Aug 9, 2007 at 9:56 AM

  Interesting way of solving the problem! I was in a similar scenario a while ago when I needed to generate a colour palette containing potentially any number of colours, each with enough contrast from the others, to fill regions on a treemap. I had the same problem with figuring out the best... read more »