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 […]
We have been moving sites from a SQL 2000 machine over to a new SQL server 2005 server and we came across this error: “The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect. Parameter 1 (“”): Data type 0x38 is unknown” It is caused by the connection method in the […]
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, […]
During a recent project with a bent on improving UI we decided to take a look at what happened if an over zealous IT administrator in a company decided to disable activeX on his pure Internet Explorer environment. The results were disturbing therefore justifying the mantra that mission critical apps should still be functional without […]
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, […]
I am just working on migrating a clients site from a third party provider over to our servers and I thought I could use SQL Management Studio and DTS to move the database. Should be easy right? connect to third party server, right click database, copy et voila! Not so, the other server is running […]
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: […]
