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I was really happy when I heard about coldfusion 9.0.1 update and specially because of Amazon S3 could support. Recently I have started working with Amazon S3 Cloud service and writing function for all API call, when I see that new update for ColdFusion having amazon S3 cloud support and I can not stop myself to update it on my development server and my hard time start from here....

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For one of our client had requirement to download photos in zip format and it was working file with cfzip tag. Although I have some performance issue with cfzip tag as cfzip doesn’t allow you to zip with list of files. We can create zip for whole folder, add single file but can’t have ability to add list of files at single instance. In my case I have around 50 images which I need to add into zip file and I have only one way to do so is adding one by one file. I was looking for alternative solution for creating zip which gives faster performance with adding file list.

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I am sorry for posting issue of coldfusion 7 in era of ColdFusion 9 :). Today I face really strange issue about value of ntext field not populating in cfquery. Application was running on ColdFusion 7 (eventhough I didn't face same issue on local server running with ColdFusion 7).Tried same query in Sql Server Management and seems data was coming correctly mean query was OK but when I dump CFQUERY it showing empty string for ntext fields. Now this is really hair pulling situation and after 2 hours of try and error method I found simple solution, that is...

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Since couple of week I have notice retweet and facebook like button is getting more popular, in many blog I have seen it and really impressed. This make really easy to share on post on facebook and tweeter and I thought to implement it for my blog. I just modify on shareonweb plugin and release as version 2.1.

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For one of my project I required autocomplete box. I know coldfusion has its own autocomplete but has lots of limitation. I wanted autocomplete to work like select box of html, display lable of product in list but in backend it will return ID for that product and as usual I just stop at jQuery-ui Autocomplete (I just love jquery) which allow good customization.
This coldfusion wrapper allow you to use jqury autocomplete with coldfusion query variables or loading data remotely.

Example:

<cf_autocomplete
textFieldName="productName" 
textFieldValue="" textFieldBind="PRODUCTNAME"
idFieldName="productId"
 idFieldBind = "PRODUCTID"
datasource="/cfc/products.cfc?method=getActiveProduct&returnFormat=JSON"
fieldList="PRODUCTID,PRODUCTNAME,PRICE"
queryParam="product"
 
displayTemplate="<div><img 
src=""/images/{PRODUCTID}.gif"">{PRODUCTNAME}&nbsp;: {PRICE}" 
minlength=2
 />

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