Quick - look at the dumb mistake on ColdFusionBloggers.org

Thanks to Todd Sharp, I discovered I made a pretty dumb mistake on ColdFusionBloggers.org. I almost didn't blog this as it is so much a beginners type mistake, but if I forgot, I figured other people can to. (That's me - making dumb mistakes so you guys look smarter. You're welcome! ;)

If you go to the site and go to the 2nd or 3rd page, you will see an entry title: Bold Text and Opacity Issue. Then every entry below that will look faded.

Why? I forgot one of the basic rules. When displaying content that could have HTML embedded in it, you need to use htmlEditFormat.

Nice one there, Ray. Anyway, I'll leave the bug in there for another hour or so before I fix it. In case it's fixed before you read this, here is a screen shot. (Someone save this and post it to my site next time my ego gets away with me.)

Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Sean Coyne posted on 8/1/2007 at 6:01 PM

Also, in the getEntries function you reference the datasource by name rather than through the variables.dsn variable.

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 8/1/2007 at 6:10 PM

Hey - who said it was open season on my dumb bugs??

Comment 3 by Gary Gilbert posted on 8/1/2007 at 7:24 PM

err whoopsie.. hehe,

I see the repeating entry issue has also being resolved.

The speed has also dramatically increased too! Nice one Ray

Comment 4 by Raymond Camden posted on 8/1/2007 at 7:33 PM

Repeating entry issue? Not sure what you mean by that.

Speed changed? It was always fast. I haven't done anything speed wise. Well, in theory the AJax changes means less to reload.

Comment 5 by James Marshall posted on 8/1/2007 at 7:40 PM

I'm glad to see that even people like you make mistakes from time to time Ray! It's good that you can put your hands up and admit when something goes wrong - it helps people further down the food chain (like myself) realise that it's not just us!

Comment 6 by Mike Weiland posted on 8/1/2007 at 9:26 PM

My coding mistakes have helped staff entire QA teams.