Programming

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Call me a nerd, but I just made it in to the top 15 in the world on the website www.experts-exchange.com for the ColdFusion Topic Area. If you click on the link and look for the box of Top 15 you can see mmc98dl1 in the list (thats me!) I am a long way behind […]


January 15, 2006 - 6:59 pm
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I recently took a voyage of discovery to see how much you could do with the new and improved cfchart. Its really good, with some great features and funky animations, lots of control over labels and axis and a range of interesting charts. Macromedia LiveDocs cfchart. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough. The engine Macromedia licensed […]


December 14, 2005 - 6:57 pm
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I was hard pressed to find a fix for the issue that occurs in this ColdFusion Custom Tag cf_twoSelectsRelated originally by Nate Weiss. When you use the emptyText1 and emptyText2 attributes together and want to preselect values the second box wont fill out the values required. I knocked up a bit of javascript you can […]


November 4, 2005 - 6:53 pm
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We had a job sent in by email today: Dear Service Desk, My mouse is really slow. It takes 2 clicks to start something or highlight something, etc, etc. I checked out the mouse function in control panel but it still didn’t make a difference. Thankyou.


July 19, 2005 - 6:50 pm
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So you have several apps on several servers, each of them load balanced and clustered using ColdFusions cool new Clustering and load balancing. But what if you need to know which of the CF instances is handling a particular request, what if you want to actually see the Round Robin happening? I found a nifty […]


June 18, 2005 - 6:42 pm
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When ColdFusion MX 7 came along the old ways of performance logging went out the window somewhat. cfstat got lost because it cant cope with multiple jrun instances and for some reason Jrun metrics doesn’t want to work either (at least I couldn’t get it to work). At MXDU I saw Kai Koenig talk about […]


June 18, 2005 - 6:37 pm
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Recently I started to get a lot of junk in my in-box through the contact form. This was all generated by spam bots on the net so I added in the new feature of human evaluation by use of the image with a number on the contact and comment forms to slow the junk entering […]


March 29, 2005 - 6:29 pm
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In my quest to start using LDAP for authentication, we realised that using it to create a phone directory would be easy. Heres the example in Cold Fusion using CFLDAP. Remember to set the correct name for your LDAP server, a valid username and password on your domain, and make sure you get DC start […]


January 13, 2005 - 6:24 pm
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I was struggling recently with how to get cfldap to work against Active Directory and eventualy found the solution so I thought I would post it here for anyone that has any issues, and hopefully you wont spend so much time tearing your hair out like me! The code is below, change the params to […]


January 13, 2005 - 6:20 pm
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