Ravenglass is seeking two application developers: one Web Application Developer and one Mobile Application Developer. Will consider contract, contract-to-hire, or full-time with salary plus full benefits. Flexible commuting arrangements considered

Web Application Developer Degree in Computer Science or related field required. Must have demonstrable experience with HTML, XML, AJAX, and SQL. Web application development experience in ColdFusion, JSP, ASP.NET, or PHP is also required. Mobile application development experience is a plus.

Mobile Application Developer Degree in Computer Science or related field required. Must have professional mobile application development experience with iOS or Android OS. Web application development (ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET) and HTML5 knowledge are a strong plus.

Professionalism and strong communications skills are a must. Apply with resume and cover letter to jobs@ravenglass.com.

Here is a fun challenge for those of you who have to deal with specific sized divs that contains dynamic text. What do you do with a div that you cannot or do not want to resize dynamically. Today, I have two solutions for you.

The first and simplest technique would be to use CSS to hide overflow content.

Lets take a simple piece of code.

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One problem that I ran into while creating PDF's in Coldfusion recently was with including images. Despite using what I thought was a valid path (since it would show up in my browser) and using the correct syntax, my images were showing up as red x's. I found out that there is a little trick to including images in a PDF in CF.

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I figured when I first started this project that it would require the use of CFPDF in order to create a PDF in Coldfusion - wrong. CFPDF is only used to manipulate already existing PDF's.

It is the CFDOCUMENT tag that you use to actually do the initial creation.

Here is an example of how you would create a PDF and output it to the browser window:

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We had some fun with this seemingly simple problem today. Setting up a new web site, we found that the "favicon" graphic (the little icon that show up next to your page's URL or title in a browser tab or address bar) was working for all browsers but Internet Explorer (IE).

It turns out that IE is very particular about the way that the favicon must be set. The graphic must be of type "ICO". While other browsers support GIF, JPG, and PNG icons, IE requires ICO.

Next, a reference to the icon must be included in the section of your HTML document, using the tag. The tag must have the attributes "rel", "type", and "href" set to the values "SHORTCUT ICON", "image/vnd.microsoft.icon", and the full URL (including http:// and your domain) to the ICO file.

For more information, see the following links:

• Wikipedia entry for Favicon
• Favicon validator to determine where favicons may be found for a given web page.
• Favicon ICO generator to convert existing icons or other files to valid ICO format icon files.

If you've ever wondered where the name "Ravenglass" comes from, it's the name of a port village in England's lake district. Company Founders Jim Jurista and Aimee Koval Jurista visited Ravenglass in 1993 and were struck by the natural beauty and historic places such as Muncaster Castle. In 1997, when they were looking for a unique name for their new business, "Ravenglass Technologies" appealed to both of them, and it's been with us ever since.

Here was a problem that occurred for me the other day that you all may have encountered. When I was attempting to upload certain image files, Coldfusion would throw an error!

"An exception occurred while trying to write the image. Ensure that the destination directory exists and that Coldfusion has permission to write to the given path or file. cause : coldfusion.image.ImageWriter$ImageWritingException: An exception occurred while trying to write the image."

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Did you know you can actually force an index to run if you'd like? SQL table hints are the key here. Using these hints you can indicate that you'd like the query to give preference to once index or another. This can sometimes be beneficial if you'd think that one index may be better than one the SQL query tools automatically select.

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I ran into an interesting issue today where I was trying to grab some query information from Coldfire but none of the Coldfusion information would load. I went into Coldfusion Administrator and double checked that my IP Address was in the "Debugging IP Addresses" listing. I then opened up a couple other pages and Coldfire was able to pick up the necessary information from them.

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I was updating some ColdFusion old code and had a brain freeze about how to wrap items from a ValueList() function in single quotes, so that I could use them in a query.

Fortunately I found this article from Cold Fusion Jedi. Just use QuotedValueList() instead of ValueList() - each item in the list will be surrounded in single quotes. For example, if ValueList(query.alphabet) returns a,b,c,d, QuotedValueList(query.alphabet) will return 'a','b','c','d'.

If you want to have arbitrary characters (instead of single quotes) around your list items, use ListQualify(). Continuing the example above, ListQualify(ValueList(query.alphabet),":") would return :a:,:b:,:c:,:d:.

I hope this helps somebody!