Eric’s Test Lab .com

esearing — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:56:55 +0000

I needed different hosting in order to experiment with Coldfusion applications and code. I am using CF a great deal more at work and may begin to use it for clients sites. It has some really nifty features and is more natural to me than PHP for application development. So I built erics-test-lab.com as a blog and applications test site. As I develop applications I will share them. When I encounter coding problems and solutions I will share them. It will also act as my personal code library. Please come visit if you have any interest at all in Coldfusion, JQuery, SQL, or general development issues.

It took me a while to land on a design for the blog so this is the latest iteration.

New Website Got-Lawn.com

esearing — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:31:51 +0000

Version 3 of the Got Lawn? website is now available. Version 1 was a temporary holding page. Version 2 was a little more robust but the owners decided they wanted to increase interactivity and to brand it more like the parent company site (got-bugs.com). In Version 3 I reused the structure from the parent [...]

I finally had a photo published

esearing — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:17:39 +0000

Fox news has a daily submission for topical photographs so that those of us out there with too much time on our hands can manipulate them into something funny or expressive. I finally decided to enter one and managed to get picked for the daily slide show. The topic was "How Congressman Charlie [...]

Installing Ioncube loader for Associate-o-matic on Bluehost

esearing — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:38:53 +0000

I had a heck of a time installing the ioncube loader on bluehost and making it work for AOM's shopping cart. But finally figured it out. If you are getting a message that ioncube must be installed try the following. Step 1 - Go to ioncube.com and get the ppc64.zip linux version of the loader. [...]

Hacked + New site.

esearing — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:39:06 +0000

Glad I keep backups of my site. I was hacked once again by syrian hackers. Thanks guys. In better news, I am finally launching a site for one of my regular customers. Got-Lawn.com which is a tree and turf care company in Alpharetta/Cumming Ga. area. Nothing really fancy in its design but used color to coordinate [...]

Coldfusion Query tablelist from multiple databases and bind them in a form.

esearing — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Using the meta data available in most database software you can usually get a list of tables by querying the sysObjects table. However I had need to change the list of tables based on a database name selected. We have multiple databases on our server. So here is the code. It uses Coldfusion and [...]

Cell phone links on a page

esearing — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:18:51 +0000

While searching for ways to make a cell phone call a phone number on a web page I found there is no official standard. The most common seems to use the anchor tag with href="tel:9999999999". It does work from my blackberry web browser. It can also work with an image of the phone number.

I am not a web designer, but I am

esearing — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:43:17 +0000

When people ask me what I do I often reply that I am a business information systems application developer. When I get the blank stare or the expected "Huh?" I tell them I build web pages. If they appear in the least bit interested I then explain the differences in the jobs of those [...]

Coldfusion 8 Bind data for self populating Forms

esearing — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:15:38 +0000

Sometimes you need a form to self populate some of the values based on input of one field. For example you can save a user data entry of address information if an id number is provided in a change of address form. The data will still be able to be edited in the form [...]

What new in Eric land

esearing — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:46:28 +0000

Not much and I kind of like it that way. Life is generally good. Been hanging out way too much in facebook, Selling stuff on ebay, selling books on Amazon, and sitting on the newly covered back patio. Some of my best afternoon naps on the patio couch have been amid rain storms. Still searching [...]