We now have a solution to update each of our customer sites on our devserver. We installed ANT on the server to the default directories and then called the undocumented cfant tag via ColdFusion. Installing the necessary files to get the SVN task working isnt hard, you simply download and drop these files into the […]
I am bored with Vista, and the Windows 7 RC came along at about the right point in time (The annual Windows reinstall was due), so I decided to take the plunge. It’s a bit of a risk for primary work machine, so I prepared everything late on Friday, pulled DVD’s for software out, and […]
We recently came across a project where our client, a holiday listing site, wanted to integrate with a third party information provider. Not a problem we said! It turns out that the .NET webservice was something like we had never seen before. There were no arguments or datatypes, just an input of some XML against […]
We have been fiddling with getting CF to call a self updating ANT script. There are a few articles around about the undocumented cfant tag. Getting cfant to run a build file is not all that hard, we loop over the sites in our dev server directory, check to see if a build file exists […]
Having ColdFusion run on the new Windows Server 2008 server under IIS 7 is pretty easy, however you have to have the right components installed. Windows 2008 uses lots of routines from Vista, so installs are really easy, and in this version, instead of installing everything, and then disabling the features, 2008 simpy doesnt install […]
A colleague asked me today about how he could dump out a jQuery object and find out what was in it. There are 2 ways I know of right now. 1) AjaxCFC contains a js file call dump.js and dDumper.js include these in your page, then use The output is appended to the bottom of […]
We just struck this problem because our developers use ColdFusion 8 on their local machines, then we deploy on ColdFusion 7. This is so we can fully test our apps on 8 before rolling it to production. We don’t really run into any issues, but here is one I just found. This issues is a […]
I just a trip down memory lane reading this article from Adobe’s coprorate intranet, kindly reproduced by Damon Cooper for the rest of the world to read. Thanks Damon! I occasionaly play with other languages, most recently PHP and life is so much harder to get started, making a database call is not easy, and […]
We have moved our email services in house over to SmarterMail because of its history, power and flexibility. We used to use MailEnable, and although we like supporting Aussie companies, Smartermail is just that bit more mature. Now to make it easy on clients and ourselves, we have minimised the amount of knowledge required to […]
