Last few days I had quite nice time trying to create barcodes. This post here, explains how to create a datamatrix barcode with java4less and it helps me to present the project before the deadline. So Thank You Stillnet Studios. Now here is another way to create Datamatrix 2D barcodes with barcode4j, an open source project.You need :1. Barcode4j (download here)2. Administrative access to Coldfusion MX or JavaLoader CFC (download here)3. (more..)

I was generating InDesign JSX files with Coldfusion, to create pdfs that happened to have Unicode characters in it. That is not a difficult task, but rather boring one, until I realize, I cannot use Unicode characters inside InDesign JavaScript file. JSX only accept Unicode characters by their "glyph id number" or "code point" or whatever the name you geeks prefer to call it. (more..)

Dreamweaver have this bad habit of freezing itself once in a while, specially at the start up like a stubborn old horse. I tried all sort of remedies adobe suggested in here, even the most common one, uninstall and reinstall everything, which normally took hour or two of my time every Monday morning. Finally I found this remedy which so far working pretty well for me. (more..)

Last week I had to extract text content from around 1 TB worth of PDF files and then match each pdf with database records. First I tried CFPDF method to strip text from pdf, and as usual, it worked wonderfully. But it was bit too slow for my massive load of files – average 2 pdf per a second. I needed soemthing faster. After trying out all sorts of methods, I came across this excellent open source java PDF library call PDFBox. (more..)

It is quite simple to inject a tags using your form and do something you absolutely don't want to see happening in your webpage. It won't take much, except little bit of luck and a html enabled form, like a FCK Editor enabled form that we all like to use time to time. Here I assembled a simple function to remove all those codes from a given string, so you can clean your input data, before you send it to the database or save anywhere else. (more..)

I was trying to connect to inDesign server with ColdFusion today, realize there are no code examples in CFM. There are php, java and other language examples in adobe site, but not CFM. This is not the first time I noticed that. When adobe released Spry framework before CF 8, Adobe labs most graciously released php and .net examples, but there were no CFM either. (more..)

Here is a simple ColdFusion function to extract URL and link Titles form a given string. This outputs an array of links, URLs and Titles. (more..)

Google Ajax API is a neat way to create your own little search function inside your webpage, using Ajax. But with few lines of codes, we can do the same inside ColdFusion too. In this example, I'm going to search within this site. So I went to Google advance search and build up my query string for the keyword "coldfusion". (more..)