Farecast

Great site that accumulates data about airline tickets and gives you a forcast for the best times at the best rates!

Somewhere in Africa

This is a webcam streaming a live video feed of a watering hole Africa... amazing stuff

Letterpop

Interesting idea here. They allow you to create newsletters from templates and mail them out.

Free Ruby Programmer's Guide

Some dude put together a handy little guide to programming in Ruby. Gonna have to get back to this one day and read it completely.

15 Tips to Choosing Good Text Type

A great read on how to choose just the right font to do the job right!

CFC: Google Calendar Feed Parser for Coldfusion MX 7

A few months back, when the Google Calendar API was first released, I decided to start tinkering with getting Coldfusion to read in a data feed and output it in calendar format. Easier said than done. I like things nice and easy to interface with and I've been spoiled by not having to deal with XML very much since we get to handle most of our data access by tapping strait into the DB.

Well... I figured I wasn't the only one out there who enjoyed treating all data like it's a Coldfusion query so I created this dandy little CFC to easy my woes and decided to make it my first public release of anything I've ever worked on. Hopefully a few people might find this useful.

How does it work? Simply give it the feed's URI and a set of dates to query between (inclusive) and it returns a query with the data you requested. Usage instructions are in the header comments of the CFC.

Download GCalendarCFC.zip Here

View a Test Page

I hope this comes in useful. Please provide feedback if you can and report any bugs through the email address in the header comments of the CFC or here in the comments.

Enjoy!

Welcome to CFRadiance

This is the first post in what I'm hoping will become an online repository of Coldfusion & Web Development related links, files and source code to share with everyone else out there. Not that I expect to become the next Ray Camden or anything, but I'd like to give back to the developer community I've leached off of for so many years! ;)