NYCFUG - I was there ;-)

Some nice memories of my stay in NYC this summer - a picture with the famous CF blogger Ben Nadel at the NY CFUG! Two thumbs up!

Amazon EC2 goes Lorem ipsum

"Lorem ipsum" is the typical dummy text so I was quite surprised to read it on the Amazon EC2 Console (Setup wizard for a new instance) just a few seconds ago (see screenshot below). I guess I was just using the interface during an upgrade ... at least it reminds me a little bit of the pain during my Latin lessons in school ... ;-)

Add missing Array.indexOf to Internet Explorer

When dealing with JSON it comes in handy to get the position of a certain string in an array, image an array with column names returned by a SerializeJSON'ed CFQUERY.

Internet Explorer does not support this function, but just add the following snippet and you can use Array.indexOf( 'TITLE' ) in any browser without built-in support as well (We add a new function to the Array prototype!)

// make sure indexOf is supported
if(!Array.indexOf){
   Array.prototype.indexOf = function(obj, start){
       for(var i=(start||0); i<this.length; i++){
           if(this[i]==obj){
               return i;
           }
       }
   }
}