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

In just under a fortnight I will be exhibiting a panel of my pictures, as part of my photography club's annual exhibition, Photo 2007.

The event takes place from the 5th to the 10th of March, at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.

If seeing my beautiful pictures is not motivation enough for you, twenty six other club members have work on display, a total of nearly two hundred and fifty images (prints and slides) on display, covering a great range of subject areas.

If you're in any way interested in photography (or art in general) I definitely recommend you come along and have a look — it's completely free and there's certain to be some great pictures on show.

Posted by Peter on 22-February-07 at 22:02 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: photo

That being my answer to the question, "How does one build a website effectively?"

So, let's examine what I mean by it: read more...

Posted by Peter on 20-February-07 at 21:33 ~ 4 comments ~ Category: web-dev , accessibility

Lightroom is Adobe's photo management software, which has been available as a public beta for a while now.

Today, Adobe announced that the complete version 1.0 is available, for an introductionary price of £146.88 for the boxed version, or £151.25 to download the 64MB file. (For US users, it's $199.00 - equivalent to £100 - for either method.)

If you've been using the beta, you should know that it will expire in a weeks time.

New additions to the beta include:

• Clone and Healing functionality
• Hue, Saturation and Luminance targeted adjustment tools
• Improved import dialogue with more flexible file handling
• Virtual copies and snapshots for maintaining multiple versions of the same image
• Metadata browser for quick access to key information tags

Posted by Peter on 20-February-07 at 18:03 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: photo

The list concept is one of the greatest features of CFML - the various list-related functions and attributes can be very powerful, and allow for some rather nifty code.

The key to their great flexibility is delimiters: by default lists work with commas, however they are capable of working with any character you like, allowing you to treat almost any string as a list.

A standard sentence is a list of words delimited by spaces. A path is a list of items delimited by slashes. A query string is a list of attributes delimited by ampersands. And so on.

With just a little bit of imagination, you can do some great things with lists...read more...

Posted by Peter on 15-February-07 at 22:43 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: cfml

Over the past few months I have been working on creating a custom tag library for easily creating accessible and usable forms.

I have of course been planning to launch it as an open-source project, and today I finally got around to comitting my code to RIAForge.
It is still a development version, so you might not want to jump in and use it on important sites straight away, but if you're interested in creating accessible forms in CFML please do take a look at what I've done and give me your thoughts over on the project's forums at RIAForge.

Posted by Peter on 09-February-07 at 02:11 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: cfml , accessibility , projects

In the near future I'll be getting myself a dedicated server, and decided to find out if anyone would be interested if I was to setup Railo hosting on it. So, I posted on the CF-Talk mailing list to see if anyone was interested, and crikey, what a reaction I got! The discussion is currently the longest in the past four dozen threads.
The first few replies basically boiled down to was "why would anyone want Railo hosting?!?".

Tempting as it is to reply with "Railo PWNS U l4m3rz!", I've decided that I'll instead explain why I choose Railo, over all the other CFML engines available (CFMX, BlueDragon and Smith being the significant alternatives).

However, to prevent me from rambling on for hours about how wonderful Railo is -- and I really could talk about it all day -- I am simply going to pick just five things that should help to show what attracts me to Railo.
(but if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask them)


UPDATE: I have written another article which expands on this one, offering twenty reasons why you should choose Railo.read more...

Posted by Peter on 07-February-07 at 21:36 ~ 10 comments ~ Category: cfml , web-dev