Agent K on CF

Parsing text input with a LL(k)-parser

by kai 12/01/2005

This is going to be the month of the weird ideas 😉 After writing all the stuff on product selection and recommendation, I’m now thinking about parsing form input with a LL(k)-parser (generated by JavaCC for example) to notice if people try to fill code into a form instead of “text content”. The idea came […]

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Product recommendation III

by kai 11/01/2005

Finally, here’s a .zip-file containing the components, example files with CFC method calls and a MySQL-database script. Download recommendation0_1.zip Further explanation and documentation is in the extended entry.The database consists of five tables: cart: CAR_ID is the PK CAR_CUS_ID is a FK and refers to a customer customer: CUS_ID is the customer ID and PK […]

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Product Recommendation II

by kai 06/01/2005

Jim commented my entry on product recommendation that he’d like to get some more details about the “mystic math” behind the approach. Ok, I’ll do my best to deliver it a little bit more in depth…meanwhile the CFC are done also and I’ll post them in one of the next entries tomorrow.So, let’s assume a […]

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Product recommendation

by kai 03/01/2005

During the holidays I read an interesting article on product recommendation systems for online shops. To be more precise, it was on the theory behind the algorithms and approaches used to filter the product set of an online shop to show the customer the products which might be worth having another look. If you ever […]

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SiAr – a simple ColdFusion architecture

by kai 27/12/2004

A while ago I wrote an entry on architectures and the MVC design pattern and announced the release of a very basic architecture for ColdFusion web applications. A reason for this is that I found a lot of people (customers, fellow developers and web designers) still don’t care about the architecture of an application and […]

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Geoff Bowers on FarCry

by kai 29/11/2004

Friday last week Geoff Bowers presented on FarCry for the AsiaPac Macromedia community via Breeze. The recording of the preso is available now and it’s worth the nearly 2 hours of time if you’re looking for a content management solution. Hey, it’s even worth watching if you’re not currently looking for such a system. http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p89523193/

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FarCry video tutorials available

by kai 29/11/2004

Jeff Coughlin made available two video tutorials on FarCry. They are intended to get watched by beginners, but Jeff announced some more to follow if there is a good feedback on the first two. The files are available on his website.

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4 CF/Flash/Flex articles online (in German)

by kai 29/11/2004

I just found out that the Internet Professionell, a German print magazine, I used to publish in on several occasions, put some of my articles online. I wasn’t aware of this and just stumbled over them more or less accidentally. They are all just available in German, sorry. There are four of them: Der Java-Faktor […]

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Blue Dragon hosting

by kai 15/11/2004

CFMX Ltd. offers Blue Dragon hosting now additionally to their CF 4.5 / MX services. It’s a very interesting offer as the fees are quite low and that there is no setup fee until end of 2004. Nils also offers a 4-weeks-try-and-buy-setup for Blue Dragon – if you don’t like it, you don’t have to […]

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New Macromedia CF security bulletin

by kai 12/10/2004

Macromedia published a new CF-related security bulletin tonight, which is available on http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb04-10.html The core issue is about the possibility of using CFOBJECT and CreateObject() in a so called “untrusted” or shared environment to gain access to internal system functionality. Macromedia recommends setting up proper security sandboxes or at least reviewing the current settings.

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