Yeah! As some of you might know, I was studying English with Wall Street Institute in Germany during the last months to improve my English. For several reasons I decided to take the IELTS exam recently (International English Language Testing System) – you never know what you might need it for )
Today I got [...]

Life is always surprising, ColdFusion as well. If one talks about finding the best or just a good value for the simulatenous requests setting in your ColdFusion server, the recommended approach is to start with a value of 3 to 5 per CPU.
Usually this works pretty good, maybe you have to adjust the values to [...]

Finally… the new style is online. I couldn’t stand the old look & feel of this blog over the last months. People knowing me are aware of me being design challenged, so I decided to go with a nice template and just reconfigure it to my needs. And here we are, it took me several [...]

Ben Forta just announced that the new release of his CF Certified Developer Study Guide book have been shipped. It should be a very good book and I can’t stress it often enough: even if you don’t intend to take the exam – get the book, it’s a great source of compact CF knowledge to [...]

I recently built a double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms. As there is no Flash forms CFSLIDER tag, I searched the web and found an implementation of an awesome slider, done by Nahuel and Laura of asfusion.com .
But I needed a slider with two thumbs, so I took their code and extended/changed [...]

I started my tiny CF7 playground after I found some time to put all this stuff online. If you have a look at http://mx7.bloginblack.de/cf7playground besides the CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF example you’ll find another “component” I built: A double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms (more about it in my next post…).

I created a new version of CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF for ColdFusion MX 7 Flash forms. It includes some minor changes as a better support for using styles within the custom tag. It’s available for download here.