Damon Cooper, Macromedia’s ColdFusion product engineering manager, has started up his blog. Should good to watch.

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Now you can call me a cynic if you like but I don’t care. This is nothing to do with spam is just greedy Gates after yet more of our hard earner money. If it’s not enough with Tony Blair taxing everything we work for leaving us with f*** all, we now have good ‘ol Gates jumping on the band wagon.

Grr.

OK, this is really useless, but it might help someone. Taken off the back of a Natwest mini statement.

ATM – Automated Teller (Cash) Machine
BAC – Automated Credit
BGC – Bank Giro Credit
CHG – Charge
D/D – Direct Debit
DIV – Dividend
DR – Account Overdrawn or Debit Item
IBP – Inter Branch Payment
INT – Interest
ITL – International
NDC – No Dividend Counterfoil
OTR – Online Banking
PO – Post Office
POS – Point of Sale – Switch/Maestro
S/O – Standing Order
SBT – Funds Transfer
TLR – Teller Transaction
TMS – Travel Money Service
TSU – Telephone Banking

Now isn’t that handy. I think I need another drink!

Just installed a Winamp plugin called Now Playing by Lauri Nevala. The version on the site that I’ve just installed is 1.4.1, and guess what there’s a pod for Blog CFC coming soon

Edit: Slight change of plan, now using DoSomething plugin to generate a file. Working on the pod and should be sorted soon ish.

Edit (again): OK, think I may quit on this one, can’t get either working as I’m at work behind the firewall. Rah.

I’m sure some of you will have seen Blogger’s BlogThis! functionality, well, I decided to have a play and make a version for Ray Camden’s Blog CFC.

After a little playing about I’ve finally got it working.

Basically I took the editor.cfm and copied it, then added the login form to the actual page, removed some of the edit functionality as it’ll only be used to add entries, alter the cfparam tags so that they have the URL variables in. Finally I copied the Blogger JavaScript code, simply changing the URL path to my new page. It now behaves exactly as the BlogThis! link does.

For full details on the code and how to install it read on…

This deserves a post. William Shatner, yes, Captain Kirk sings a cover of Pulp’s Common People.

Don’t believe me, go listen and read some more or here.

It really is quite shocking.

Ray posted about this on his blog but just hit this problem myself so thought I’d post up the revised code block.

This came up from a post over in the EasyCFM.com forum. It’s all
about dynamic ranking, mainly using JavaScript. It’s like you want to rate your “things” 1-5 but don’t want to manually update the lists.

Hard to explain so easier if you look at the code or the example. Thanks to CJ for the JS bit.

Out and about in download land some new versions of bits and bobs:

• Thunderbird 0.8
• Firefox 0.10 PR
• Windows Media Player 10

Some useful articles I’ve read recently on tuning MySQL.

• Optimizing MySQL: Hardware and the Mysqld Variables
• Optimizing the mysqld variables
• MySQL’s Query Cache