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Getting RESTful with Mach-II

Written by Jon Karna on December 8, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Since working with Ruby, I have been inspired to improve my coldfusion practices. While using Sinatra, I enjoyed being able to specify HTTP methods while mapping routes. In the same flavor, I wanted to write something for Mach-II that would allow me to do something similar. I wrote a Mach-II filter to [...]

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How To Use Search Engine Safe Urls With Mach-II

Written by Jon Karna on June 23, 2009 — 2 Comments

Search Engine Safe (SES) urls are increasing in demand, especially by SEO departments across the board.  They look better and supposedly increase search engine optimization.  Since my company upgraded to version 1.5 of Mach-II, we were able to use their built in SES url functionality.

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Coldfusion Pageable Array

Written by Jon Karna on June 16, 2009 — Leave a Comment

This class works just like the Coldfusion Pageable Query class that I created previously, with the exception that you obviously feed in an array rather than a query.  I enjoy having this class for encapsulating logic, retreiving specific pages of the array, and having functions that help with the creation of pagination markup.

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Coldfusion Pagable Query

Written by Jon Karna on May 28, 2009 — 1 Comment

I wrote this coldfusion class to encapsulate much of the logic that goes along with creating paginated results.  I grew tired of the duplicate code that went from project to project.

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