Kevin Pepperman

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• ColdFusion QueryNew(), JavaCast(), And Date/Time Values

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM

  This helped me tonight-- I am building a search interface on BlueDragon JX/Lucene that uses custom fields. One of the fields is a PRICE. The index is created by looping through all our products and combining all the criteria needed within the cfoutput using QueryNew(). Everything went well until I ... read more »

• Be Careful When Including Images In jQuery Auto-Suggest

  Posted on Apr 8, 2010 at 12:04 AM

  Here is a great reference from Google about Parallelize downloads across hostnames. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#ParallelizeDownloads... read more »

• Be Careful When Including Images In jQuery Auto-Suggest

  Posted on Apr 5, 2010 at 6:41 PM

  This is the same method that Google uses on their Google Maps requests-- they use 4 sub-domains just for their image requests. We had to follow suite because we show a lot of thumbs on each request-- especially on our wholesale site and our art archives (not public). Managing the separate configur... read more »

• Be Careful When Including Images In jQuery Auto-Suggest

  Posted on Apr 4, 2010 at 9:37 PM

  We do something similar for this when loading pages with a lot of images. I noticed the browser would slow down on image heavy pages even though the bandwidth usage was minimal. We have several sub-domains that are just for this purpose. eg. //imgs0.domain.com //imgs1.domain.com. Then on each imag... read more »

• Ben Nadel Will Make You Code - Thanks Dave Dugdale!

  Posted on Feb 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM

  It couldn't have been put any better than that Ben. I read your blog for inspiration all the time, and I seem to find this site a lot searching when I have a problem with what I am working on. I love the fact that your posts are progressive, they evolve as you discover new things; That is the same... read more »