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

I have released v0.7 of QueryParam Scanner, which introduces a variety of improvements over v0.6.1:

• Significantly faster processing
• Multiple output formats (HTML, XML, WDDX).
• Ability to override Request Timeout.
• Option to specify file/directory exclusions (regex).
• Option to include/exclude Query of Queries.
• Option to include/exclude built-in CFML functions.
• Eclipse Plugin for easier execution.

For more details and download information, visit the project page at Hybridchill.

Future Improvements

The following release, v0.8 will have three key features:

• A Fix mode, allowing you to manually or automatically correct missing cfqueryparams.
• A flexible exclusion system, allowing you to ignore paths and variables you know are ok.
• Integration and examples of use for Apache Ant and MXUnit.

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Posted by Peter on 23-September-08 at 20:09 ~ 1 comment ~ Category: projects , cfml , web-dev , sql

I recently* completed my very first Eclipse Plugin, and I found the whole experience to be very interesting.
*(well about a month ago; took me longer to get writing this than intended)

This blog entry will focus on two main areas - my experience with Eclipse (as opposed to CFEclipse and similar), and the issues I encountered from a development perspective

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Posted by Peter on 23-September-08 at 00:10 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: projects , cfml

This weekend Taleworlds have finally released v1.003 of Mount & Blade, an excellent game based primarily around mounted combat.

The game has been developed in shareware form for many years, it has a large following of fans and numerous graphical and gameplay mods, and earlier this year it was picked up by publishers Paradox Interactive, through whom it is now available to buy online and in shops.
Anyone who paid for a shareware version is entitiled to this full release at no extra cost.

Set in the mediaeval world of Calradia, Mount & Blade is an open-ended role-playing game which gives you a lot of freedom - there is no set storyline, and you can choose to do pretty much as you please.

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Posted by Peter on 22-September-08 at 19:46 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: games , misc

The more exploratary of users may have noticed that the Task Manager in Google Chrome allows you to specify which fields you would like to display.
(The menu for this is on the context menu of the background panel, not the main area of the dialog.)

One of the 234 possible options (yes, I did count them) is the intriguing "Goats Teleported" field, which (when enabled) displays a number that increases at an alarmingly rapid rate.



Where are these goats coming from, and where are they being teleported to? Has anyone even noticed their disappearance?

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Posted by Peter on 15-September-08 at 18:29 ~ 2 comments ~ Category: misc

The long awaited Railo 3.0 is out of Beta and available to all.

There are a lot of exciting new features with Railo 3.0: multimedia video conversion and manipulation, video player with playlisting, task manager, cluster scope, CF8 compatibility, and more.

Also, with Railo 3.0, the Community and Professional versions have been combined - keeping the price of the Community edition (i.e free), but without the previous restrictions this had. (With Railo 3.1 due later this year, Railo will fully become Free Software, under the LGPL2 license.)

For more details, the best place to head is the rebrushed Railo website, which has been updated to provide information on what is new with Railo 3.0.

There will also be a three part series on the Railo blog covering the new features. The first entry in the series is already available.

Posted by Peter on 09-September-08 at 19:08 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: cfml , web-dev