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Refactoring Inline Coldfusion Towards MVC

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:41:00 -0700

This is the first video in a series geared toward teaching Model-Glue. I found after training several people that one of the biggest hurdles was getting Coldfusion developers comfortable using Components and separating concerns. This segment is geared toward the developer that is comfortable building inline "spaghetti code" and helps them make the first step toward using Model-Glue. This isn't by any means production quality code, nor does it dive into Model-Glue at all. It is simply design to give you a basic knowledge so that you can start developing Model-Glue applications. Files used in presentation

Stop the Vista User Account Control (UAC) Prompt for Firefox

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:56:00 -0700

After the Firefox automatic update failed several times yesterday for the 2.0.0.4 patch, I manually downloaded and installed the update. Afterwards, anytime I opened Firefox I would get the User Account Control (UAC) prompt to allow Firefox to run as an administrator. This became increasingly irritating when clicking on links from within Outlook or MSN messenger. The solution is NOT to disable UAC. Instead, follow these easy steps to prevent Firefox from running as an Administrator thus preventing the UAC prompt.

Go to your Firefox install location, usually (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox) and right click on firefox.exe and click on Properties.
Click on the 'Compatibility' tab, and then click on the 'Show settings for all users' at the bottom.
Under the 'Privilege Level' group ensure that the 'Run this program as an administrator' is unchecked. Click OK on both dialog boxes.
Run Firefox using your normal user permissions.

Disclaimer

The reason my Firefox automatic update failed in the first place is because Firefox wasn't running in administrator mode. So be warned that if you do want to install automatic updates that you will have to run Firefox by right clicking on firefox.exe and clicking 'Run as Administrator'.

Weblog in 120 minutes Presentation

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:13:00 -0700

I have uploaded the files used in my presentation to the PDXRIA group on 3/14/07. The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how-to refactor an inline Coldfusion project into a Model-Glue application. Each of the steps demonstrates an additional feature that Model-Glue provides to help facilitate rapid application development. You will find all the steps of code that we walked through in the presentation, the powerpoint file, SQL necessary to create the database table and a PDF summary of all the steps. In the future I plan on creating a breeze presentation for each of the steps and split this up into seven tutorials. [More]

Roy Martin's Blog

Refactoring Inline Coldfusion Towards MVC

Stop the Vista User Account Control (UAC) Prompt for Firefox

Disclaimer

Further Reading

Weblog in 120 minutes Presentation