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The need to document your business with policies and procedures
October 27, 2011One of the most influential business books of all time, The E-Myth Revisited, extols the virtues of documenting your business extensively.
Presentation tomorrow: Migrating existing applications to CFWheels
February 9, 2011I'll be presenting about migrating existing applications to the CFWheels framework tomorrow night, February 10, on the Online ColdFusion Meetup.
Epic battle of the lizard brain
January 11, 2011In Seth Godin's Linchpin, he describes our own "lizard brain." I battle mine on a daily basis. A video reminds me of this struggle and describes the concept well.
The opportunity in blogging
December 27, 2010At this point, no one can deny that Facebook and Twitter are huge. Facebook and Twitter are great for sharing quick links and quick thoughts. I love this, and I love what this does for blogging.
How to build an admin section in CFWheels
November 23, 2010CFWheels routes allow for you to split your admin section up into as many controllers as you need.
Updates to CFWheels PluginManager and others
November 10, 2010I spent some time last night making some security updates to the PluginManager plugin and making sure that all of the plugins that I've submitted to cfwheels.org are compatible with the newly released CFWheels 1.1.
Super-slow ColdFusion image processing
November 8, 2010I was excited to finally take some time to add the ability for people to upload screenshots in the CFWheels Site Directory when I ran into a big problem with performance.
Automatic data handler functions for partials in CFWheels 1.1
October 5, 2010Just over a year ago, I blogged about my implementation of the RSS aggregator for cfwheels.org using Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, <cffeed>, and CFWheels partials. Now that CFWheels version 1.1 is in beta (and almost complete), there is a new piece of functionality involving partials that makes my solution simpler.
Add to the Flash with redirectTo() in CFWheels 1.1
October 1, 2010In CFWheels 1.1 (now in beta), you can now add messages to the Flash from redirectTo() instead of needing to call flashInsert() separately.
New assetQueryString Setting in CFWheels 1.1
September 30, 2010The upcoming CFWheels 1.1 offers a new setting called assetQueryString that can help you more easily manage caching on the client side for assets like images, stylesheets, and JavaScript includes.
About Chris Peters
With over 20 years of experience, I help plan, execute, and optimize digital experiences.