Word Jumble Game: Part 5

I used jQuery for the UI. I am a recent convert to jQuery, having mostly used Prototype + Scriptaculous. The word list is embedded into the page script as a javascript array. On document ready, html is generated, which writes the first and last word to the page, and creates blank input boxes for the […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 4

Search The problem of generating the chain of clues is a simple search problem. In this case, depth-first search was used, because the algorithm would attempt path depth-wise and only explore another branch if the generated chain was not long enough. Another tactic would have been to use a breadth first search. To use breadth-first […]

JRun Virtual Directories

I’m posting this because I always spend half-an-hour trying to find this information. To set up virtual mappings or virtual directories (what I call them) for ColdFusion on JRun on OSX, edit the jrun-web.xml file in (this is where mine was, you may have to look elsewhere): Add an entry to the jrun-web-app xml element […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 3

The first thing I did was made sure that the word list would be cached on application start. This was as simple as creating an Application.cfc cfcomponent and implementing the onApplicationStart function. This function reads the dictionary in (described in the last entry) and caches the word list in a ColdFusion array. There are other […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 2

In my last entry, I described the concept behind the Word Jumble game. In this entry, I will describe initial steps in creating the game. Firstly, I needed some dictionary of words. The Unix flavors have built-in dictionaries, and I develop on OSX, so I Googled the location of its dictionary: I knew I wanted […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 1

For a recent Regular Expressions Tech Talk at Wharton, I wrote a Word Jumble game. I will be describing the game and some of the key concepts used in making the game. Here’s the github repo. The premise of the game is to transform one word into another by replacing a single letter in the […]

Date Validation in ColdFusion

Someone asked me about Date Validation the other day. Here are two simple approaches for use in your CF apps. Assume that the strDate variable contains your date. On the server-side, you may use IsDate(strDate). On the client side, !isNaN(new Date(strDate)). I don’t know for sure if the client-side code is the best way to […]

ColdFusion Cheatsheet DateFormat TimeFormat

This is the start of a ColdFusion Cheatsheet. It contains mask options for DateFormat and TimeFormat. I plan to add to it as I find the need. ColdFusion Cheatsheet v0.001

Jamie Ly

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