http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2009-07-03T06:46:13+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 A user reported this to me earlier in the week. I was sure he was wrong until I confirmed it myself. Imagine you have 2 queries you want to join using a query of query. Here is a quick sample. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3D37A4B9-DB18-F478-F9F6B15606AD57E7 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-07-03T06:46:12+10:00 I’ve finally bundled up my Ant presentation files.  I recently gave this presentation at TACFUG (Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group) and got some pretty positive feedback. Hopefully now with the examples – people who attended can hack these up and do something useful with them! This file contains: Older PPT version of the presentation I gave on CFMeetup [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CE62E1-BBEC-3DF6-BBAA72656A35834E ColdFusionMX Jim Priest 2009-07-02T10:12:45+10:00 This post probably has a very limited audience, but what else is new. ;-) I'm finally getting around to de-Appleizing my music collection (more on that in my forthcoming Amahi chronicles), and yesterday I installed Rockbox on my Sansa e280. The e280 ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CE3D09-D4E1-E90D-3A40617EB57A7844 ColdFusionMX Matt Woodward 2009-07-02T10:12:35+10:00 Pete Freitag recently pointed out a security issue with file uploads. This affected file uploads in cf_sebForm so this update addresses this issue. The update also has other tweeks and features, but no point in covering those until I have some real documentation (soon, I hope). Anyway, if you are using the sebtags custom tags set, upgrade now. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CD70A1-A144-F867-934CD3967AA4A84C ColdFusionMX Steve Bryant 2009-07-02T10:11:43+10:00 LDAP in Ruby is better than LDAP in C#/.NET. Looking at it, I can't say it's much different minus the cruft from .NET. Experiencing it while actually writing code , it's very different. I can't explain it, except to show it to you and tell you try it. Ruby LDAP code is at github even though existing solutions with good examples point you to what are now broken links. To install (despite README.txt saying otherwise): gem install ruby-net-ldap And here's some LDAP login/aut http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CC5DBA-09B7-57E5-609500F69DB59678 ColdFusionMX Sammy Larbi 2009-07-02T10:10:33+10:00 A few months ago I got so fed up with dealing with spam on the ColdFire RIAForge site that I disabled comments for all blog entries and completely disabled the forums. However, rather than admit defeat, I talked with Ray Camden to see if I could help get Akismet support in RIAForge. Ray took me up on my offer and today he released a couple of updates that I think project authors will really appreciate. The biggest update is that under the hood RIAForge is now using Brandon Harper's c http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CABBF1-0496-2B18-98DA68C098B7C2C7 ColdFusionMX Nathan Mische 2009-07-02T10:08:46+10:00 Firefox 3.5 now allows you to make AJAX Requests, or more correctly XMLHttpRequests cross domain (in other words foo.com can make XHR requests to bar.com). When I heard about this, my first is that they would use the cross-domain.xml file that Flash has supported for years to achieve this. They took a different approach, and use a HTTP header instead, which I think makes more sense. So how does it work... When you make a request using the XMLHttpRequest object it sends an Origin header (this is http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CA6DB2-9DE5-F3CC-7B85C7E36F715B49 ColdFusionMX CFDEV Blog 2009-07-02T10:08:26+10:00 FireFox 3.5 was just released about a half hour ago. You can checkout all the new features for web developers here. For me, as someone that does a lot of security research one of the most interesting new features is the Origin http header that FireFox 3.5 now sends. The Origin header when your browser makes a request the following types of requests: scripts, stylesheets, form GET & form POST, redirects, XMLHttpRequest (XHR, ajax), and frames. You may be thinking, ok how is this different th http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CA6DC1-EE5C-E58C-FBAF87BFB56767F7 ColdFusionMX CFDEV Blog 2009-07-02T10:08:26+10:00 This blog entry relates to a certain request we had in the Railo Google mailing list regarding an express version with Resin instead of Jetty as the basic application server. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CA63BF-032F-69ED-14A7FE74D3937979 ColdFusionMX Gert Franz 2009-07-02T10:08:23+10:00 Alright boys and girls, here is an issue and its solution that had me going NUTS for a couple of hours. I actually wrote and implemented three DIFFERENT solutions trying to find a way around the problem, only to find out in the end that I kept carrying the true issue with me. The Scenario My user clicks a link and a window pops up allowing them to save http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38CA54CB-F834-AAB3-975AD8599ABCC9E6 ColdFusionMX Doug Boude 2009-06-30T16:30:42+10:00 This came as a quite a shock to me today to hear that The Pirate Bay has been sold to Global Gaming Factory will this spell the end to TPB much like that of napster? [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38C9F71A-B6D2-0AC2-4CB2C86C2B555100 ColdFusionMX Gary Gilbert 2009-07-02T10:07:55+10:00 If you're still on the fence about whether you are going to CFUnited 2009 now would be a good time to make up your mind. Early bird pricing ends today after which the 3 and 4 day package prices will go up by $100 and the Saturday only package price will go up by $50. Register now to lock in the better deal!If for some reason you aren't sure if CFUnited is for you I recommend checking out the schedule which lists all the topics and speakers. I'd be willing to bet there are lots of ColdF http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38C97F6A-F9AC-7DCF-B34252A428B0378B ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2009-07-02T10:07:25+10:00 So a while back I was looking into open source tools that could be used to covert RTF or MS Word files to HTML and/or PDF format. Eventually, I stumbled across two projects with some good potential, at least for the newer .docx format.I decided to focus on the newer format only, and not the binary .doc format. Primarily because there was better support for ooxml. Plus, there are several tools available for converting binary documents to ooxml format. So the newer format seemed the better o http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38C90150-90E3-4CAE-BFA12926FF4B8698 ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-07-02T10:06:53+10:00 If you do any file uploads on your site, a recent entry on Raymond Camden's blog is a must read on mime type security holes. The issue has been around forever, but people are often unaware of it. When it comes to uploading, remember the X-Files: Trust No One ;)http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Are-you-aware-of-the-MIMEFile-Upload-Security-Issue http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38C90160-CE9A-388F-13AC03F9AB9A33CB ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-07-02T10:06:53+10:00 In a Part 1 I mentioned two interesting projects for converting docx files. The first one is the OpenXML Document Viewer Project, which can be used to convert docx files to html. The server version is a small executable that can be used with cfexecute. The small program accepts three arguments:source_file absolute path to the docx file to convert dest_path folder to place the converted files (html and images) browser_type used to generate a browser specific html file (IE, Firefox http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=38C90122-A903-7764-FC2764061395815C ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-07-02T10:06:52+10:00 Earlier this week a reader asked if there was a way to read FLV Metadata via ColdFusion. There isn't anything built in (that I know of!) so I did a quick search for a Java solution. I think people forget how easy it is to use Java via ColdFusion. Eve... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=376A470F-0EE5-6993-0ADE2DC620756260 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-07-02T03:43:47+10:00 Last night I converted my CFMU project from Flex 3 to Flex 4. There were a couple differences but a lot easier than I was expecting so that was a pleasant surprise. For my project one of the major things I had to convert was the way I read in flash vars and lucky for me it was a simple 1 line change. In my multi uploader there are all kinds of variables that are passed in using flash vars and in the previous source it looked like this. var params:Object = Application.application.para http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=371D4716-00A3-7337-687EB5BE087170F2 ColdFusionMX Dan Vega 2009-07-02T02:19:41+10:00 When ColdFusion 8 came out, I never really paid any attention to Application.cfc's new OnMissingTemplate() event handler. This method allows you to handle 404 errors at the application level rather than the server level. At a glance, it seems like an awesome new feature until you realize that it has one glaring issue: it only works for non-existing CFM templates. Meaning, that if you request a .GIF or .ZIP file that doesn't exist, the OnMissingTemplate() event handler does not get triggered. . http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=36BA3276-FB7B-D3E1-34CC6A1FEBE75E5D ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2009-07-02T00:31:28+10:00 I'm sure that most of you have seen the 'Request Tuning' page on the Coldfusion Administrator. If not, take a quick peek here. This seemingly innocuous page can make or break your web server performance under load. Lets think about a typical page request. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=35E556B3-B090-DF45-91338660726B30C1 ColdFusionMX Alagad 2009-07-01T10:40:37+10:00 My post on "Are there really ColdFusion jobs?" got a comment which was echoed by Sean Corfield on his blog (ColdFusion Jobs? Really?). It seems that I didn't answer my own question. In truth, I was using it as a jump off point but looking over the ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=34396710-E662-29B5-DF102283BC7F9DE6 ColdFusionMX Blog of Fusion 2009-07-01T12:51:33+10:00 Today I released two important updates to RIAForge, both thanks to Nathan Mische. The first change is the addition of Akismet spam protection to the blogs and forums. RIAForge gets hit pretty hard by spammers, so the hope is that this will reduce ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=33DDCFEC-D912-BABF-8CA8B117AB412BCA ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-07-01T11:11:30+10:00 Four new projects and four updates this week. Today is the last day to get the early bird discount for CFUnited. If you are interested in ColdFusion open source, there will be plenty of discussions about some important open-source projects there and, I am sure, no shortage of announcements. I'll be there speaking about the Mate Flex framework. So, after you read this week's open source update, go get yourself registered. New Releases and Updates New Project: CFLogger CFLogger Tim Blair posted http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=32A1E6B1-E6AD-EE71-0D2EC969A516E154 ColdFusionMX RemoteSynthesis 2009-07-01T05:26:26+10:00 Is there a way to overload the included remove() function in jquery? Possibly a separate js file? For example we are using the min version and it would be cool to not have to add this in each time we upgraded to a new version that has come out? jQuery is such a well thought out, powerful Javascript library, that it actually uses itself to build itself. What I mean by that is that many of the methods provided by the jQuery library are actually built internally as plugin ... Read More&nbsp http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3267EFF2-9D6A-4553-A5C4D77AB9C73237 ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2009-07-01T04:23:08+10:00 I had heard a few rumblings of this recently but had not really paid it much attention. Mike emailed me today and described how he was hacked pretty badly by it. I'll share his email and then add some notes to the end. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=31EC25C3-0EF1-EBB6-053241A01A34EC00 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-07-01T02:07:55+10:00 I know that jQuery is great for event management, but I was wondering if you have come across a way to detect if a DOM element (say a row in a table) was removed? I have a table and I want to run an ajax request every time a tr was removed, but there are several ways that the tr could be removed. If you look at the W3C, there is actually an event that gets triggered when a DOM element is removed from a document sub-tree: DOMNodeRemovedRead More » http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=31876DD3-F84E-3F91-6D09781F8FB98914 ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2009-07-01T00:17:54+10:00 I’ve been somewhat quiet for the last month or so, for a definition of somewhat that scales up to utterly and completely. But, I have a very good reason! I have a new job. Today was my first day as a full-time instructor for Full Sail University, where I soon will be teaching two courses for [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2FF42C6D-F85A-8EA5-E9116F5786D06EAA ColdFusionMX Rick Osborne 2009-06-30T16:57:27+10:00 Michael Dinowitz poses a very interesting question over on Blog of Fusion: are there really ColdFusion jobs out there? What he's mostly talking about are those o... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2FEDB9DA-C007-14D4-ADB6946E69641F4F ColdFusionMX An Architects View 2009-06-30T16:42:00+10:00 I came across an interesting question on the forums today about a quirk of the FORM scope. On the off chance you have not already encountered this one, the poster discovered that StructCount() does not return the correct value after keys are deleted using StructDelete.To demonstrate, create a simple form with one or more fields. When the form is submitted, delete the keys one by one. Check the StructCount() value on each iteration. You will notice the resulting counts are incorrect. The size http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2FEC8EA8-0856-9A63-BA8D553B4B54EC13 ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-06-30T16:49:08+10:00 Yaron asks: I'd like to know what your preference is for using cfajaxproxy. In JavaScript, do you create one global proxy object and reuse it throughout your script? Or do you create a new proxy object within every function that generates a p... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2ED549DC-C8D3-DBEA-B144517407685707 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-06-30T11:44:05+10:00 MAX is still a few months away (and I've yet to finish my presentations for CFUNITED), but it's time to begin early planning for the ColdFusion Unconference. Last year I think things went well, but there are some changes I'd like to make. First - ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2DBB8192-9708-293C-10D09A3006F39466 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-06-30T06:36:18+10:00 Have you registered for CFUnited yet?  If not, why not? The 'early bird' discount ends tomorrow.  So, go register.  Go ahead...I'll wait.... OK, now that we got that out of the way, we can talk about the real important stuff. How many of you knew that one of the amenities if you stay in the hotel was that you get a free round of golf at the resort?  I am sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that I think this is way cool. I love golf, and take any opportunity to play new courses. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2DA4227A-F1D3-5B6C-F5F20CA0D445CA9F ColdFusionMX Boyzoid 2009-06-30T06:10:47+10:00 I won't go on again waxing too lyrically about the O'Reilly Velocity conference but I fully recommend all who read this post to go and attend the conference, if it occurs again next year.  What I thought might be of use is to go through some of the products and services we were exposed to over the three days of the conference.  What it seems like to me is that web technologies are evolving and morphing so fast that those of us interested in maintianing and furthering our careers need to keep ta http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2D94337F-E9F6-91D6-8ACB4AE91FFE485E ColdFusionMX Mike Brunt 2009-06-30T05:53:23+10:00 Comment spam on my blog has increased immensely over the last four to six weeks. I'm getting, on average, 150 spam comments per week. In order to help combat the scum of the earth I have implemented both Akismet and Project Honeypot by way of activating these two features in CFFORMPROTECT (which ships with BlogCFC). [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2D4E055F-C6F0-9A2F-5F2004387511054C ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2009-06-30T04:36:43+10:00 I'm happy to announce that the new and improved SlideSix is now live. This new look and feel is a complete overhaul compared to the original design of the site. The new design uses a lot of gray, blue and black in order to make the site more closely resemble the Flex pieces that were already in place. There are also a lot of rounded corners to take the edge off of the deep colors so they hopefully don't overwhelm. Thanks to some feedback there is also a shiny new logo. Here's the n http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2C2C2D4C-C8BC-2AB6-F35F0551E8A35CC7 ColdFusionMX cfsilence 2009-06-29T23:20:08+10:00 This weekend I got a package in the post, with an awesome t-shirt from the NYCFUG! I want to thank Clark Valberg and Ben Nadel from Epicenter Consulting for sending me such an awesome item as well as for the fantastic reception I had at the NYCFUG in May!      http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2BDA43C1-01CC-4194-2DF2A25048480182 ColdFusionMX Mark Drew 2009-06-29T21:50:40+10:00 CFC serialization is a feature that came out in ColdFusion 8. With this feature it is now possible to serialize a cfc, i.e. it is possible to write an instance of a cfc to an outputstream. In simple words, it is possible to write cfc instances to a file and read them back. CFCs stored in [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2BD5F854-EB2C-002C-73D22018CA91B90D ColdFusionMX Rakshith N 2009-06-29T21:45:58+10:00 Are there really ColdFusion jobs out there or are they teasing us? As of today, I'm married 14 years. This means that I've been using ColdFusion for 14 years and 1 week. In those years I've done everything from create some of what is considered ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2B6CF48A-CF28-BB40-EAE7EA8D396FCF25 ColdFusionMX Blog of Fusion 2009-06-29T19:51:16+10:00 The text themes in Afae work fine on Mac, but if you are using Linux then you might have noticed that some of the themes don’t work very well (as I have been noticing lately – Ubuntu 9.10). The main problem being, depending on your theme, when you are selecting text the text foreground [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2B4AF913-0507-60EA-9D2B6B1EA8DE4033 ColdFusionMX Rob Rohan 2009-06-29T19:14:09+10:00 If you have been playing with Railo lately you may have noticed that the Railo Wiki is still a tad meger. Well all that is soon to change. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=299593A0-D3CA-6671-B74E75A8F57ACBAB ColdFusionMX Gary Gilbert 2009-06-29T11:16:24+10:00 Another interesting issue with cfpdf and watermarks came up on the adobe forums last week. A poster mentioned having problems using cfpdf to apply a watermark to the background of a pdf. Whenever they tried using foreground="false" a white rectangle always obscured the watermark.<cfpdf action="addwatermark" image="myWatermarkImage.gif" foreground="false" source="test.pdf" destination="test_Watermarked.pdf" overwrite="yes">I ran a few tests and suprisingly my attempts to apply the backgroun http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=29900311-C244-7577-27E1A3558920E157 ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-06-29T11:10:19+10:00 I've blogged about the OmniFocus task management application before and today I want to talk about a small but very useful feature: creating tasks via e-mail. As much as I dislike e-mail it is hard to exist or do business today without it. No matter where you are, at the office, home, or on the road e-mail is sure to follow. If you always looking at it wouldn't it be nice if you could create OmniFocus tasks from any e-mail client? After all, using this method would certainly fall under http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=28D09506-F765-364A-65786E06F12EC142 ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2009-06-29T07:41:14+10:00 When the iPhone 3.0 software was announced earlier this year I was excited to hear about the Find My iPhone feature. I've been a MobileMe subscriber since it launched alongside the original iPhone and the prospect of finding my iPhone if it were lost was intriguing.In order to use the feature you first turn enable it on your iPhone, which must be running iPhone software version 3.0. To do this, go to the Settings screen and tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. Ensure Fetch New Data is se http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=289A5498-E93B-72AE-7BE29C40656AE739 ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2009-06-29T06:41:58+10:00 I wanted to give folks a quick update on my experience with the new iPhone 3GS. With the expensive (for some) upgrade price, I know people aren't sure if it is worth the upgrade. Here is what I've found so far. First though - note that I had a first... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=278C790A-0BBD-8159-965FCCCCCE3508CA ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-06-29T01:47:13+10:00 I saw an interesting question on the abode forums yesterday, about problems with watermarks and cfpdf. The issue involved using transparent png's or gif's as a watermark. The transparent parts of the image seem to be rendered as white, instead of maintaining their transparency.As I was curious, I tried a number of different things but nothing seemed to work except a bit of iText magic. The work around comes from an adaptation of two great iText examples. The example is very simple. It use http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=251214AE-0B49-1D13-137506DDFB83996F ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2009-06-28T14:14:17+10:00 Just want to share this bit of info, in case others find it as hard to locate as I did. If you start to use the new Adobe Presentations service, an online presentation-building tool, now at labs.adobe.com, you may want to engage in some discussion with other users, so may go looking for some forums. You may struggle as I did. Sadly, there's none for it listed at the acrobat.com forums page. Perhaps that's because Presentations is still in lab status. There's also none listed in th http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=250A75EF-D578-913E-AD6DDB8AC7C28ACE ColdFusionMX Charlie Arehart 2009-06-28T14:05:58+10:00 I pushed up LighthousePro to RIAForge. This isn't a major update in functionality (although it has a few updates and some jQuery-lovin' added) but it is now a Model-Glue 3 sample application. It will ship with Model-Glue 3 and hopefully serve as a go... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=235D36DA-9FE4-7C69-19C9A4A5A3CF157A ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-06-28T06:17:07+10:00 Gary asked me an interesting question relating to AIR applications. He wanted to know if there was a way for an AIR application to know the username of the current user. I would have guessed that this would be part of the AIR API, but after a bit of ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2234E648-C42E-8DA5-6D49B6C4FA6C797B ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2009-06-28T00:53:28+10:00 I just noticed that the ColdFusion Meetup now has over 1,800 members. Wow! If you're not yet on the bandwagon :-), please consider it. Membership is entirely free. Just sign up at the site. It gets you email notification about the meetings, as well as the chance to share feedback on meetings they attend. Of course, you don't need to join to attend the meetings. The RSS feeds for those are available free on the site, and the meetings are announced on twitter as well, via @cfmeetup. S http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1EC0BFEB-054A-65B5-A158A11B36819D9D ColdFusionMX Charlie Arehart 2009-06-27T08:47:44+10:00 okay, I had a major wrestling match today when attempting to allow my users to automatically save or download a dynamically generated Excel spreadsheet, so thought I'd share the details in case it helps someone else save some hair pulling. The Scenario You have a page with a link on it. Clicking this link produces a popup window, the code behind it quer http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1E90BE6B-9DAF-87F2-ACAE29E5121E45FA ColdFusionMX Doug Boude 2009-06-26T21:23:00+10:00 I am Continuing my blog related to the config settings in Resin and I would like to complete the explanation about the app-default.xml file and discuss the resin.conf file. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1E90877B-D69F-0253-0B7C53DD551E3772 ColdFusionMX Gert Franz 2009-06-27T07:55:04+10:00