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Digital Crew Developer Blogs

Author : Daniel Mackey Email : dan@digital-crew.com Date Added : 17/02/2007 14:55 PM Last Edited : 29/03/2007 02:13 AM by Peter Coppinger
Digital Crew have 2 employees blogging at present.

These blogs are mainly Coldfusion, Internet Technologies and programming related journals and notes.

If you have any issues, features or items you wish to highlight, why not drop Peter or Daniel and email to have it featured on one of their development blogs.

RSS feeds are available for each blog and should be automatically accessible.

Dan Mackey On ColdFusion Development

  • FeedDemon is now free. I'm happy and dismayed at the same time
    Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:50:00 GMT
    I was checking my RSS feeds (using a paid version of FeedDemon) and noticed on Nick Bradbury's blog that FeedDemon (and all newsGators non-enterprise RSS products) are being released free. While I appreciate why they are doing it, something inside me felt disappointed. Why? Cause I paid ...
  • Silverlight Vs Flex - Good article from a developers point of view
    Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:08:00 GMT
    I found a very interesting article today on a subject that is of particular interest to me at the moment. I am in the need of a good gantt chart component (for integration with www.teamworkpm.net) and after searching high and low, have come to the conclusion that it may be worth building one mysel...
  • Allow people to IM you from your blog - no software required!
    Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:36:00 GMT
    As I have posted before, Live Support is something that interests me greatly and I have been constantly on the look out for a good solution. A new addition to the Windows Live Messenger family of products is the Windows Live Messenger Control for blogs and websites. It allows anybody to ...
  • Impressive Adobe AIR Application - Google Analytics Suite
    Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:41:00 GMT
    Once again I have been impressed by AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime. I can see massive advantages of an app environment like this even if I have some requirements that are not available. Anyway, we use Google Analytics for client projects and our own websites and I alway...
  • ColdFusion Powered Teamwork Project Manager Released
    Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:42:00 GMT
    We got there! After a gruelling few days hard work and an extremely long day yesterday, Topper and myself finally hit our launch milestone and Teamwork Project Manager went live Already the feedback has been excellent and a roadmap of features will be defined and uploaded today sometime. People ...
  • Very impressive and affordable live support application
    Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:56:00 GMT
    We all have pet applications. The apps that interest us so much as programmers, users and benefiters that we want to write our own. Its that ingrained thinking of a programming mind that you want to write your own version. My pet application is a live support type application written in ColdFusion...
  • Pandoras Box Running In Ireland Again!
    Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:14:00 GMT
    Its been a while looking at Pandoras Box seeing as access to Ireland (and Europe) was cut off. I have got a shed load of emails from people but there was nothing I could do. This really bugged me and I have had to listen to FineTune which while good was never my favourite and the repea...
  • Securing Your RSS Feeds Using Basic HTTP Authentication and ColdFusion
    Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:35:00 GMT
    We are working on a project at the moment that requires secure RSS feeds. We need it to be secure in both browsers and Feed readers such as FeedDemon so decided that Basic HTTP Authentication was the best way forward. The snippet of code below demonstrates how to force the user agent (browser/fee...
  • Navicat 8 for MySQL Released
    Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:46:00 GMT
    We have just upgraded our copies of the fantastic Navicat 8 in the office from version 7 and first impressions have left me disappointed. The upgrade process was fast and easy and I had it installed and activated within minutes. The most important thing to me and the bit I was looking forward to ...
  • Setting IIS Maximum Connections To More Than 10
    Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:00:00 GMT
    Every project I am working on, I test against 5 different browsers: Safari, Mozilla, IE7, Opera and IE6 on the same machine. Since Safari has entered the browser lineup, I have been receiving an annoying "HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected" message. To s...

Topper on ColdFusion

  • Tip: Easily protect your include files
    Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:38:00 GMT
    I just thought I'd share this quick and useful tip: Put the following code in all your Application.cfm or Application.cfc fles to automatically protect your include files such like "inc_test.cfm" or "act_deleteUser.cfm" from being called directly. UPDATE: This code ha...
  • CFUnited Europe 2008
    Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT
    Charlie Arehart was nice enough to give me some tips and help me rearrange and improve my Powerpoint presentation for the 2 hours before my talk. With minutes to go, I saved my Powerpoint and suspended my laptop, then headed upstairs to the conference room. Now this was my first time speak...
  • I'm speaking at CF-United Europe!
    Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:01:00 GMT
    The topic is: How we made it: Teamwork Project Manager - tips for development of highly-scalable web2.0 apps in ColdFusion. We developed Teamwork Project Manager over the last 7 months. There aren't many web2.0 CF apps taking on the Ruby crowd these days and I think my speech will be interesting...
  • Another reason to hate IE
    Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:11:00 GMT
    Like we need another reason to hate IE. But here it is. I recently implemented rounded edges throughout Teamwork Project Manager and it's a painful process involving nested divs and workarounds for IE6 glitches. Today I was procrastinating on Digg.com and I stopped to admire the rounded edg...
  • Announcing CF Debug Live Link (free tool for CF Developers)
    Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:45:00 GMT
    CF Debug Live Link. It changes the links in the standard ColdFusion MX 7 debugging output so that when the file names are clicked, they open for editing instantly. It does this by registering a protocol handler with Windows, which in turn calls a small .net application which tells your e...
  • Teamwork Project Manager - The story
    Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:00 GMT
    We hear a lot about people building web2.0 apps like Twitter using Ruby on rails. Rarely do we hear a mention of ColdFusion being use to build a scalable high-availability ajax enabled application. But at Digital Crew we recently launched Teamwork Project Manager - an application that as the name ...
  • Teamwork Project Manager - Password stored securely
    Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:39:00 GMT
    Teamwork Project Manager - Project Management made Easy! That feedback feature I added has worked out great so far. We've got some great suggestions and enquiries in. One customer used to feedback option to contact us. He had used the option to retrieve a lost password and wondered why the p...
  • TeamworkPM - 24 hours in
    Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:50:00 GMT
    Teamwork Project Manager. ...and we've had a monkey-load of installations! Just about everybody is using the free account... so I guess we'll have our work cut out convincing people to upgrade but that's OK... I relish the challenge. OK, I've decided that i'm going to try to add at least on...
  • We have launched!
    Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:25:00 GMT
    We have finally launched!! And what a wild ride it has been getting everything ready. Check out Teamwork Project Manager at www.teamworkpm.net The Website - Final Days About a 5 days ago we had this marketing website almost complete. We stood back and looked at what we had created... and w...
  • Smart Maintenance Message
    Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:30:00 GMT
    Your users will see this message but your team can continue accessing the website by entering an access code on the URL like so www.testsite.com/?accesscode=byPass The access code can easily be changed in the file and the template can easily be turned off by changing 1 to 0 at the start of ...