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I have released v0.7 of QueryParam Scanner, which introduces a variety of improvements over v0.6.1:
For more details and download information, visit the project page at Hybridchill.
The following release, v0.8 will have three key features:
The latest development version of qpScanner is now in SVN at RIAForge.
It would be great if people could test it out and let me know of any issues they encounter.
As before, it is all self-contained, so it can be installed and run with minimal effort.
Note: As this is still the development version, you need to use the zip option at the bottom of the RIAForge page, not the "Download Project" link - the button will only give the old version.
When released, v0.7 will be a significant new version, so I want to give a quick discussion of the new features...
Well the first day of Scotch '08 is now over, so here is a quick round-up of the sessions I attended.
Day two has ended, and I have updated the main entry with details on today's events.
Scotch on the Rocks 2008 is now unfortunately ended, as before please see the main entry for the final day's summaries.
Okay, so I've arrived back from the UK's first* ColdFusion developers' conference (*if you ignore the previous two UK-based CF conferences), and decided I would give my thoughts about it.
Where I work we have a generic database table which stores a variety of values associated with different things. Each entry has a type, id and description, along with a set of generic alpha_1..9 and numeric_1..9 columns.
Today I needed to check whether a certain value was in the table but wasn't certain where it might be - all I knew was that it was text, so I started writing the following SQL...