patrick Whittingham

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• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on May 10, 2010 at 5:43 PM

  Is POI able to read the images which are bound to the sheet? Here is an article to do it in C#. Any help would be appreciated. http://joymonscode.blogspot.com/2009/01/reading-image-from-excel-file.html... read more »

• Random Thought: The Database Bottleneck And Elegance

  Posted on Nov 29, 2008 at 1:13 PM

  Our dba lets us build our schema (tables,views,stored procedures, indexes). After I give my best guess, I have him do an explain plan (Oracle, SQL Server) on my bad sql times to see what can be done to decrease those times. I look at all of my architecture to see those weakest links, because perform... read more »

• Warning: Don't Stick Your iPhone In The Blender

  Posted on Jul 11, 2007 at 2:26 PM

  that's too funny.... read more »

• Are All Passionate People Selfish?

  Posted on Nov 27, 2006 at 9:39 AM

  Ben - One can have more than 1 passion, so create another passion (ie., family/friends) and be single focused on that item at that moment. I love my computer profession (last 25+ years) but I learned early on, if I forget about work even for a couple hours, the solution will come to me without th... read more »

• Getting The Requested URL From The Page Request Object (Servlet) Without Using CGI

  Posted on Nov 1, 2006 at 10:42 AM

  what is the other methods beside GetRequestUrl() ?... read more »

• CFDocument Errors And Resolving DNS

  Posted on Sep 26, 2006 at 9:30 AM

  Hi - I'm getting that same error for a pdf which is +100 pages and between 3 and 12 fields. I set the requesttime=2000 with no help? I am using cfmx 7.0.2 w/patches enterprise version. WHY??? Any help would be appreciated. Does requesttime work at all for cfdocument at all???? Pat... read more »