nil desperandum

Ok - so maybe not for idiots. Anyone that wants to use SVN for source control can't be all daft.... ;) I've used SVN and Trac in the past with other peoples projects, but having seen Andy Allan's post on setting up Trac on windows and then listening to the guys at ColdFusion Podcast doing their schpeel on SVN I decided that it was time I sorted out my own SVN server for work.

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Well its official! I am now the manager of the Scottish ColdFusion User Group! Andy isn't going anywhere in particular - he's just stepping back a bit and becoming the Co-Manager. I'm really pleased that Andy has decided to stay on as the Co-Manager as we've got all sorts planned for the future. In the list of things to do is updating the website which Martin Jones is helping us with. We've got our first meeting planned for Thurday 28th September at 8pm. This is going to be a Breeze presentation by Kev McCabe on "Why use Virtual Machine's and how they can help in the development cycle in both the Server side and Client side". Kev will be presenting from London for the benefit of the UKCFUG (Location TBC) onto Breeze for the rest of us. More details will be available on the Scottish ColdFusion Website (and no doubt on mine and Andy's Blogs) in the next week or so. Also in the offing is plans for Scotch 2007. We all enjoyed Scotch on the Rocks 2005 that we've decided to arrange another one for May 2007 and I'm sure we'll leak details of it as we know what they are, as well as pester everyone for their ideas and support. I'm looking forward to running a User Group again and I hope you all enjoy what we have planned.

This was a question I had when I first started using farcry.

How do I display an image in a container on a page in my farcry site?

Its a question that has come up a couple of times since and its actually pretty easy to answer. You would normally include an image into a container using the handpicked rule in a container, when you're in design mode on the front of your site. The only problem is that images aren't listed as an "object" that you can select. The reason for this is that in the core of farcry doesn't allow the dmImage object to be list under the handpicked rule. Fortunately its really very easy to make it listed. In order to allow a type to be listed you need to have bSchedule="1" as an attribute in the component tag. To make the core dmImage component have this attribute, without editing the core code, you simply extend dmImage in your farcry project. <cfcomponent extends="farcry.farcry_core.packages.types.dmImage"
          displayName="Images"
          bSchedule="1">
</cfcomponent> After this all you need to do is set up some displays in your webskin for dmImage and you're away. Attached to this post is a small zip that goes into your farcry project folder that does exactly that for you. UPDATE: Thanks for the comment Jeff. Much appreciated. I'm still a bit of a noob when it comes to Farcry, but I'm slowly getting there, so any and all suggestions/hints/slaps are most welcome. In line with your suggestion I've updated the zip file attached to this post and the image paths now use #application.url.webroot# to specify the relative path to the image folder.

Its aways nice to see one of the blogs in your aggregator talk about the company you're working for.

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I was reading a bunch of comments off of an article Wire "Sex Drive Daily" and being a nosy git I was trundling off to look at the various posters blogs, when I came across Leah Copper's "blog".

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