What have I been working on?

A giant freakin claw. It was a long but super fun process. And now you can wait in a long but super fun line to play the biggest claw ever at www.thesantaclaw.com

ColdFusion and PayPal IPN

After a few hours of trying to get the paypal IPN verification process to work I was at my wits end. According to their code samples all that is required is to loop over the form.fieldNames variable. Sounds simple enough. But after hours of trying to get it to work, different combinations of lCase, urlEncodedFormat, [...]

Embedding Web Fonts with ColdFusion

After reading some about embedding fonts I decided to try my hand at embedding fonts in CSS using ColdFusion. I was pretty pleased with the result.  This will not work in IE since Microsoft chooses not to recognize the @font-face property in CSS, for more information on a possible work around for that I recommend [...]

Coldfusion Cached Image Rendering

I recently had the need to do some client side file caching for static files and images. Not usually a problem, just setup IIS to expire after X days for that directory. But for this site profile images were stored in the database, so coldfusion would have to control the cache headers on image render. [...]

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