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Andy from the Scottish ColdFusion User Group has started doing a weekly round up of blog entries from the many adobe/coldfusion/application development related blogs in his Bloglines account. Its a great way to get the blogging headlines from the week and you can find it on his Creative Restraint blog.

Working for an organisation like Designs of the time you start looking at everything you do and everything around you in a different way. One small part of what Dott is trying to promote is designing more a sustainable lifestyle. A small part of that is looking at ecological and carbon footprinting. Thinking about eco-footprinting has made me much more conscious of making sure I turn off lights behind me, switching the TV off of stand-by and making sure everything I can recycle is recycled. One of the projects next year will be an education project based around ecological and carbon footprinting.

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Its always nice when a software upgrade goes smoothly... I've just upgraded my blog software from BlogCFC 5.0.x to 5.1.002 and its all gone delightlyfully smooth, especially seeing as I got woken up at 4am to catch a mouse the cat brought in and I didn't get back to sleep after that.

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I got a little annoyed at the scope dump feature in the admin section of Farcry's admin console today, so I rewrote it. Please don't think for a minute that I'm having a go at farcry - I just needed this function to be a bit more friendly. ;) The default is to dump the whole of the scope out, which is fine for scopes with only a few keys in them, like the request scope, but the application and session scopes are absolutely stuff with objects some of which are upto 5 levels deep (he says guestimating). Rendering all that html takes what feels like a life time complete and Firefox will tell you that a script may be having problems and ask you if you want to stop or continue. What I've done is rewrite it with a little bit of javascript to relate the drop down of the scopes with a drop down of their top level keys, so that at least you only pick one key from a scope rather than all of the keys. Its pretty down and dirty, but it works... The attached file belongs in /farcry_core/admin/admin/ folder. Admittedly I did feel a little guilty changing a core file, but what the heck its only a small file and not like its part of the cfcs. Just make sure you keep a copy of the original scopeDump.cfm file if you decide you don't like my hack, but I do hope others find it useful.

I was just looking at referers for the new Dott 07 website in the stats and noticed StumbleUpon as one of the top referers in the last week. I've heard of StumbleUpon before now, but never really looked at it, so off I went to go have a look! Anyway, I stumbled upon this How to tweak firefox 2.0 Beta 1 which eventually led me to the Firefox 2 status page.... I'm torn now... Do I find the download and install it on my work's laptop or do I wait and install it at home? Will I get a chance to play with it at home???