We were struck by the dreaded error message today This is caused when processing an email with cfpop from a mail box. Usually these bounce emails and are mostly generated by Exchange and Hotmail from the information I can gather. Why do they use utf-7 and not utf-8? Who knows – maybe its just Microsoft […]
I saw a blog the other day and liked the layout. If I remember it I will post it here. It was a full screen, large body area, with two columns for all the associated blog bits like tags, menu, comments and so forth. Its a common layout to see on WordPress and blogger too, […]
Encryption can be really useful when transferring data between systems, especially when this information has to travel over the internet. There are a number of ways to encrypt things and a number of different protocols that you can use depending on your needs. It doesn’t seem to be terribly well documented out on the web, […]
By default ajaxCFC includes the JQuery BlockUI plugin to cover the screen and display a message while the ajax request gets processed. Its default message is “please wait….”, so to make it more explanatory we can put a line of code in to help. Taking our last example of retrieving products, lets turn on blockUI: […]
The new version of ajaxCFC that runs on jQuery is excellent and has a bunch of nifty helper functions. I have recently had the need to make the end result less developer friendly and more user friendly. So here we go – how to catch errors with ajaxCFC without using the default error handler. First […]
ColdFusion has never been very good at allowing you to see inside your server and work out what its actually doing at any point in time. One way to get a nice overview is to use ColdFusion’s command line tool cfstat. With ColdFusion 8 out now with its server performance monitor, cfstat is likely redundant […]
When bandwidth becomes an issue, it is possible to enable HTTP compression between the web server and the browser. This increases CPU load on the web server by a small amount, but can provide fairly massive reductions in page sizes (in the order of 75%). Compression is part of the HTTP/1.1 specification, which means that […]
Using Ctrl + Pause/Break will force CF to push a JVM thread dump into your log file. You should try and so at least 2 dumps while the server is under pressure. this way you can find the threads that are taking time and probably eating the resources. Once you know which of your sites […]
Recently we installed Subversion into my workplace, and then moved it to CVSDude.com. As this happened I went in search of a decent web based browser for SVN and also something that would help me integrate more closely with our in house built ticket system. The only ColdFusion based SVN Browser I could find was […]
