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The definitive guide to ColdFusion UUID’s last year

I have been promising myself (and others) to write about the ColdFusion UUID implementation for quite a while now and I feel like I have been procrastinating long enough. So at long last the definitive guide to ColdFusion UUIDs, based on many years of experience and a few conversations with the …
keywords adobe, coldfusion, conversations, definitive guide, engineering team, implementation, ms sql server, uuid

SoTR 2011 presentation last year

During SoTR 2011 I presented on using XFA PDF forms (a.k.a. LiveCycle forms) with ColdFusion. Slides and materials are now available for download. A after-conference addition is that Chandan Kumar from Adobe confirmed that the issue with overwritedata=”yes” in the cfpdf tag is …
keywords add new tag, adobe, coldfusion, livecycle, pdf, pdf forms, prisma it, slides, sotr, tag

Flex 4 Crash Course Amsterdam slides last year

Last week I had the second Flex 4 Crash Course session at the Adobe office in Amsterdam as an introduction to Flex for people with no previous Flex experience. (Although there were some familiar faces in the audience.) The training material was provided by Adobe and I am not allowed to publish …
keywords adobe, amsterdam, audience, crash course, flex, mobile, people, prisma it, slides, training material

Splitting large XML files with ColdFusion and StAX last year

In a recent discussion on cf-talk the question was asked how to improve the performance of ColdFusion when working with very large XML documents. One of the solutions proposed was to use StAX and that got me thinking. StAX is a stream processor works very different from what you may be used to …
keywords cf, coldfusion, prisma it, uncategorized, xml, xml documents, xml files

Predictable session cookies in Seapine TestTrack Pro last year

Product:               Seapine TestTrack Pro Vulnerable versions:   2010.x, 2011.x Vulnerability:         predictable session cookies Vendor informed:       2010-09-07 Fix available:         no Info: TestTrack Pro is an issue tracking application from Seapine Vulnerability: TestTrack Pro offers …
keywords interface, prisma it, security, session cookies, soap, uncategorized, vulnerability

Translating LiveCycle Designer PDFs with XLIFF last year

One of the ways to translate LiveCycle Designer PDFs is using XLIFF. Since an XDP file is essentially an XML file the process is to run an XSLT transformation over the XDP to extract all the text strings. Not just the captions, but also all the tooltips, screenreader texts, image alt’s etc. …
keywords captions, livecycle, pdfs, prisma it, texts, tooltips, xml file

Using EAR files for ColdFusion deployments 2 years ago

This was written in response to a forum question, but I figured it might be useful for more people. There are many ways to deploy ColdFusion code to a server. Probably the most prevalent, especially considering shared hosting, is using FTP to upload CFML templates to the server.  Tools such as …
keywords coldfusion, coldfusion code, deployment, prisma it, templates

ForumClient version 0.1.0: UI improvements and support … 2 years ago

It has been quiet for a while, but with good reason. Over the last 2 months I have been travelling a lot. And with a lot I mean Schotland, India, England, USA and England again, all for business. And the way it goes is that by the time you get back to the hotel from [...]
keywords adobe, air, flex, forums, good reason, india, webservice

ForumClient 0.0.5 2 years ago

I have uploaded version 0.0.5 of ForumClient. I really didn’t want to do a release just yet (it is halfway a SOAP to REST rewrite), but the previous version had expired and people couldn’t use it anymore. More soon.
keywords adobe, air, flex, forums, previous version, rewrite, soap

An AIR app for the Adobe forums (alpha) at last 2 years ago

It doesn’t look like much yet, but the alpha 2 is available for download. Server communication stuff should mostly work, except for the gazillion bugs and missing functions in the Jive webservices. UI is modelled after the Thunderbird NNTP client, so you download a list of forums, then you …