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Recent Blog Comments By Terry Schmitt

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM

  I've been away from ColdFusion for a while, but timezone.cfc was the cat's meow for working with time. I would persist all datetimes in UTC and then use timezone.cfc for the conversions for display etc. read more »

• Handling AJAX Errors With jQuery

  Posted on Nov 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM

  I have used this concept with Prototype and it works great. You can take this one step further and throw/capture a 403 status code. Many folks totally forget about authentication when using ajax, but it's really pretty easy. If authentication fails for an ajax request, then just have co... read more »

• Tracking Data Audits In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 25, 2008 at 10:49 AM

  I think it always comes down to the particular requirements for given application. I normally package my audit logic in my CF code, but if high performance is a goal, I would absolutely move the auditing to where it can be handled the fastest. The suggested trigger method would be extremely... read more »

• Turning On Multiple Statements In ColdFusion 8 MySQL 4/5 Datasource

  Posted on Apr 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM

  Thanks for the tip! I recently converted a site from MS SQL to MySQL 5 and ran into that issue. At the time I just tweaked the CF code to work around it, but I know I will use this in the future.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Converting a Query to an Array

  Posted on Oct 30, 2007 at 4:43 PM

  I was pulling my hair out trying to access a query column dynamically and saw this post. Thanks much for the tip! It's funny how many years you can program CF and still find something new.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Printing Shipping Labels With ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 24, 2007 at 12:34 PM

  @Ben Sorry for the delay, but as Thomas stated, it's fairly straight forward to create custom labels. Just get the measurements set up correctly and it works great. I think that the report builder is a pretty powerful tool that is overlooked by many CF developers. Even though I don't us... read more »

• Ask Ben: Printing Shipping Labels With ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 23, 2007 at 5:03 PM

  Interesting technique, but I'd definitely recommend using cfreport for this. Custom or standard labels work great with your choice of output type and no reliance on Word. T... read more »