http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm Web Technologies, Adobe ColdFusion in particular with a smattering of civil disobedience en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:43:44-0400 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:19:00-0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss c_wigginton@intersuite.com c_wigginton@intersuite.com http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/4/26/Market-Value-of-Flex-Programmers  This blog recently received a targeted spam comment.  While I normally would just delete the comment, the contents may be of use to Flex programmers looking for work.  Here's the quandary.  The company in question is looking for ... Flex Adobe Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:19:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/4/26/Market-Value-of-Flex-Programmers http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/4/10/FarCry-Webtop-AJAX-URL-Caching IE has this annoying habit of caching AJAX requests unless you make the URL unique on each request. The 4.x FarCry admin webtop uses the DataRequest.js (v 1.4) library for AJAX calls which has the caching problem. The fix is in easy one, just open up... ColdFusion Adobe Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:22:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/4/10/FarCry-Webtop-AJAX-URL-Caching http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/31/USPTO-Invalidates-all-44-of-Blackboards-Patent-Claims While this is still a non-final action, e-Literate is reporting that the USPTO has invalidated all 44 of Blackboard's patent claims for their LMS patent granted back in 2006 Since the original patent grant, Blackboard has been swinging the hammer pre... Adobe Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:41:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/31/USPTO-Invalidates-all-44-of-Blackboards-Patent-Claims http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/27/Flash-Player-Installer-Gripe I wish that the Flash Player Installer would detect the type of player that is currently installed when it needs to be upgraded (as in trying out the new Photoshop Express), that it would be able to detect that the debug player was installed and... Adobe Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:30:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/27/Flash-Player-Installer-Gripe http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/11/BlueDragon-Kudos-to-NewAtlanta I'm looking forward to the summer release of BlueDragon J2EE edition under GPL.  Currently I use the standard version of BlueDragon for one main reason, it's free.  I would have liked to use the enterprise version, but I just couldn't justi... ColdFusion Adobe Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/11/BlueDragon-Kudos-to-NewAtlanta http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/5/Commentary-Adobe-Apple-and-the-iPhone CNN has an interesting article about why there isn't Flash on the iPhone. The article lightly touches on the "Relationship": between Apple and Adobe. Unfortunately, the article makes a huge generalization stating that ; "Several yea... Adobe Apple Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:03:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/5/Commentary-Adobe-Apple-and-the-iPhone http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/4/RegEx-Harvesting-Email-From-Body-Text A quick snippet for harvesting emails from a text string; <cfset searchTxt= "John.Doe@somecompany.com is an email and so is SaraJane@foo.net but foo@bar. is not"> &... ColdFusion Adobe Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:19:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/3/4/RegEx-Harvesting-Email-From-Body-Text http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/25/CFCHART-Passing-Additional-Value-in-URL-Other-Than-the-3-Standard-Values CFCHART documentation states that  $ITEMLABEL$, $VALUE$, and $SERIESLABEL$ can be passed in the url attribute.  Did you know you can also use $(colIndex), which will pass the (zero based ) column index of the item clicked.  <cf... ColdFusion Adobe Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:58:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/25/CFCHART-Passing-Additional-Value-in-URL-Other-Than-the-3-Standard-Values http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/25/Flex-3-Builder-Upgrades-Wheres-the-Price-Break-if-you-already-have-Charting I'm a little disappointed that Adobe lumped the Flex Builder 2 Upgrade to Flex Builder 3 Professional with both the Flex Builder 2 and Flex Builder 2 with Charting.     Considering we purchased the Flex Builder with Charting in Se... ColdFusion Adobe Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:42:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/25/Flex-3-Builder-Upgrades-Wheres-the-Price-Break-if-you-already-have-Charting http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/14/Checking-for-HTML-injection-in-all-your-comment-fields When checking for html injection in your blog comments, unless you're moderating your comments, remember to check all the fields, not just the body and strip the html.  I was reading some old blog entries of some friends (cough* Kevin's, sorry b... ColdFusion Anti-Spam Adobe Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:40:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/14/Checking-for-HTML-injection-in-all-your-comment-fields http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/5/Adobe-Forums-Tweaking-myForums-to-remember-settings-with-GreaseMonkey I usually try to hit the Adobe ColdFusion forums to provide answers every day and I've always wished that the MyForums would remember the select settings for the forum and how many entries to list.  So until Adobe tweaks the system to remember u... ColdFusion Adobe Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:00:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/2/5/Adobe-Forums-Tweaking-myForums-to-remember-settings-with-GreaseMonkey http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/1/30/Flex-Quick-Tip-Launching-email-client-on-event The flash.net package provides a nice solution for launching the default mail client on a mailto: link in Flex,  The sendToURL() function will launch the mail client without opening a new browser window.    .code { word-wrap... Flex Adobe Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:40:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2008/1/30/Flex-Quick-Tip-Launching-email-client-on-event http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/14/ColdFusion-Verity-OEM-Command-Line-Tools A recent post on the forums asked about creating a custom Thesaurus using the ColdFusion Verity K2 tools.  It seems that Adobe doesn't include the mksyd tool in their OEM license, but some OEM licenses do.  Like Adobe, Oracle is kind e... ColdFusion Adobe Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:35:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/14/ColdFusion-Verity-OEM-Command-Line-Tools http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/8/Stupid-MS-Access-Tricks You've probably read that MS Access doesn't support stored procedures.  The real answer that it does, but not as you would expect to use it in ColdFusion.  When you issue a create procedure such as below;Note: Below code was run on CFMX 7 w... ColdFusion Adobe Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:08:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/8/Stupid-MS-Access-Tricks http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/5/File-Upload-Progress-bar-using-JSPs-and-Session-Beans  ColdFusion 8 supports CFFILE large file uploads, due to a change in the default behavior of the GetHttpRequestData()  function.  Unfortunately, CF8 still doesn't provide any solution for a progress bar.  One solution I've found i... ColdFusion Adobe Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:54:00-0400 http://intersuite.com/client/index.cfm/2007/11/5/File-Upload-Progress-bar-using-JSPs-and-Session-Beans