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At One Point I Wanted To Be A Cartoonist

I found this the other day looking through some of my older stuff. Not sure why, but I think this is funny. My younger self seems to have a whacked sense of humor.

Remove White-Space from HTML Except from <pre>'s

If you have ever used ColdFusion's function (<cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="yes">), you may have noticed that it strips white-space formatting from any HTML <pre>'s you may have in the code. 99% of the time you would never have this problem, but if you have a programming blog, this can be some what of a hassle.

Well, as I was re-writing my cjboco.com site, I decided to take up the challenge and create a function using RegEx that ignore's anything in-between the <pre>'s. It will also remove any comments, but since I was using this to strip all the white-space out of my generated HTML, I soon realized this wasn't working to well with my conditional comments for Internet Explorer. Oh well, at least it's in here for future use. Let me know if you have any problems.

HTML5 Tip: Using localStorage to Retain Form Data when Sessions Expire

Most of the websites I design have a pretty nifty Content Management System which allows my clients to edit a majority of their website content. One of the biggest problems I've been trying to address over the past few years has been the short session limit on some of the shared hosting plans we use. It seems like the ISP's only allow a maximum of 30 minutes when using session management. 90% of the time, this is fine, but if my client is in the middle of an edit and then takes a phone call or leaves the computer, it's possible the session will expire and then they will lose the form data they had entered.

Yap, cool coftware and now a Cool website to go along with it!

Yap is a pioneer in cloud-based automated speech recognition. And when they needed to update their website, they came to the pioneer in web-design and development... well maybe not a pioneer, but I think we did a pretty nifty job.

I'm as proud of the design as I am as what we put under the hood. Of course, you can't see that aspect of it, but trust me, there's some pretty cool content management going on here. All the code is optimized to ensure a small footprint and quick load times.

Check it out at yapme.com and let me know what you think.

Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.

I recently started getting this error on most of my client's websites that were being hosted on a ColdFusion shared server. At first, I thought it had to do with something I was doing with a cfquery inside the application.cfc. Doing a little googling on the subject, I soon realized that this was my old friend "Java.lang.NullPointerException" in disguise.

The Solution

To fix this problem you need to have the server admin disable the ColdFusion admin setting "Maintain connections with the Coldfusion Admin". After that is set properly, you should no longer see this message.