100% Geek The Adventures of Peter Boughton:
CFML; Web Development; Photography.

You may have noticed a large increase in the comment spam here recently. In order to combat this I have installed a couple of plugins.

The first plugin is MultiRBL, which simply checks against blacklists and prevents any blacklisted addresses from posting comments.

The second is the Akismet plugin, which actually analyses the contents of comments and blocks anything that looks like spam.

Hopefully these two will help protect the place without having any effect on anyone other than the evil spammers, but if you have any problems then do let me know.

Posted by Peter on 10-November-06 at 23:07 ~ 3 comments ~ Category: misc

Okay, so I've arrived back from the UK's first* ColdFusion developers' conference (*if you ignore the previous two UK-based CF conferences), and decided I would give my thoughts about it: read more...

Posted by Peter on 09-November-06 at 22:49 ~ 5 comments ~ Category: cfml , web-dev , sql

I have created a simple custom verb which allows you to link specified resource files from circuit.xml, without having to go to the bother of writing it all in a script and including it.

For example, you can do this:
<cf:link resource="/res/bubbles.css"/>
<cf:link resource="/res/bubbles.js"/>

And it will convert that and place the following inside your HTML head:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/res/bubbles.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/res/bubbles.js"></script>

This should be useful if you have a lot of different circuits that all have unique styles and scripts, and you'd rather avoid putting lots of conditional statements in your layout pages.

For more information and a download link, read more...

Posted by Peter on 08-November-06 at 17:54 ~ ~ Category: cfml

If you've been following my Macbook 3G entry, you'll know that to get my Vodafone datacard running in the u132 PCMCIA->USB adapter, I need an external power supply - the 5V/500mA supplied by the USB port is not sufficient to get the datacard running with.

My solution up until now has been a standard 6V/1A mains power adapter - clearly not a useful solution for a laptop. I Froogled around and found plenty of portable chargers for mobile phones and similar, but nothing that clearly supported the type of connection that my u132 has.

So, the obvious solution: I make my own.

read more...

Posted by Peter on 06-November-06 at 00:12 ~ 3 comments ~ Category: misc , projects