My blog has been offline for ages (not sure if anyone had noticed) but after finally switching all my other projects to my new hosts (hostmediauk) i thought it may be worthwhile to get this back online, in case i feel the need to write any posts again.

Recently I have been using the new ORM features of ColdFusion 9 with some projects that i have been involved in. One problem that i have encountered was to add MySQL multiple key-value LIKE statements with an OR operator into a query with Named Parameters.

I have been working on several projects recently that utilise the excellent Mura CMS for ColdFusion. One of the websites requires certain form fields to be pre-populated when navigating from a page.

Looking through the support documents this was not immediately obvious, so i ended up creating a small ColdFusion function that extends the Core framework to get this task complete.

I recently had the task of downloading a large number of pdf's, extract the image from the 1st page of each pdf, then to proceed to crop, resize and alter the colour mode for these images to grayscale. Not wanting to do this task the long mundane way, i thought about how i could set up a Coldfusion script to do this for me.

The post just outlines the methods and functions i adopted to get this task done.

Been looking at Framework 1, from Sean Corfield, for awhile now and really like the simplicity of it. Having recently finished an application using it along with MySql, thought i would look at using an alternative database adopting a NoSQL approach, having read some information about CouchDB i decided to give it a try!

The post outlines an update to my application which allowed me to add an alternative data storage with the help of Coldspring.