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Great dining experience at Trebeker’s
On a tip from a friend, we checked out Trebeker's Fresh Poultry Buffet this last weekend. Great dining experience! Freshest damn chicken I've ever had, prepared exactly how I like it. Once we got over the initial revulsion of being directly responsible for the death...
RewriteGuide.com Live
Announcing that www.rewriteguide.com is now live!
DBX 10.2.0 Released
While I still don't actively work on DBX anymore, I did have occasion to work on a client using SQLServer and took the opportunity to add/enhance a few things that were annoying me: added a filter for the left-hand TOC which does simple string-matching to filter...
ColdSpring 1.2 Reinitialization Slowness Resolved
I've been using ColdSpring 1.2 for years now. Yes, it's a dead project, and yes I did try to migrate to 2.0 a few years back but there were issues that prevented it at the time (is that version dead now too?), but I always liked ColdSpring and its pretty entrenched in...
Lucee / Railo getHTTPRequestData().content as Binary (workaround)
Had a recent battle with moving over a routine from ACF 9 to Lucee where we had a Flash embed which would send binary data (a generated image) to a CF file to be processed and saved. The routine worked fine under CF9 but failed under Lucee (and Railo). What appeared...
T-SQL function to de-duplicate lists
Needed a function to de-duplicate string lists, so I modified a similar UDF from SQLAuthority. That original UDF didn't preserve the position of list elements or handle case sensitive comparisons, and I wasn't too keen on the variable naming. Anyway, my version is...
Realtek sound stuttering on Windows 7 Solved
There are tons of people with the same issue (sound stutters, delays, etc.) on Windows 7 with Realtek on-board sound cards and I have found that simply disabling Windows Defender completely solved my problem. I have Webroot and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware installed, and...
CFBuilder 2 Performance Problems on Windows 7 64-bit Solved
For those of you that continue to experience hangs and massive slowdowns running CFB on Windows 7 64bit, the one thing I found that made all the difference in the world is to have Eclipse use the jvm.dll rather than javaw.exe (the default). I’m using the CFB plugin...