cfform errors with ColdFusion MX on multihomed servers
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/cfform_multihomed.htm
Configuring the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 JDBC driver
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/cfmx_config_mssql2000.htm
Data source verification fails for Oracle JDBC Thin Driver
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/oracle_thin_ds_fails.htm
With browsers being as generous as they are about whitespace, ColdFusion, like every other scripting language I have used, doesn’t seem to make much of an effort to keep it to a minimum. Typically, whitespace is not a concern since browsers handle it so well, however if you are trying to generate an XML document, it can be a big problem. That’s why we have tags like cfsilent, cfprocessingdirective, and cfsetting, and that’s why we have the ability to enable whitespace management in the ColdFusion administrator. However, CFMX for J2EE doesn’t seem to come with the whitespace management option, and sometimes no matter what combination of whitespace management tags I use, I simply cannot prevent the server from writing out a few carriage returns at the top of the document (which makes for invalid XML). I finally discovered the ultimate solution.
Roger Benningfield of JournURL has created a nice component interface for using XML-RPC with ColdFusion MX. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m about to. I will let you know what I find. You can find information on his project here:
http://journurl.com/support/users/admin/index.cfm?mode=article&entry=362
Thanks for this contribution to the ColdFusion community, Roger. This has the potential to save a lot of people a lot of time.
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream recently “went dynamic” by upgrading their
static 600 HTML page site to a full database driven CF MX, Flash MX and
DW MX powered site. Check it out:
But even more important is the fact that tomorrow (4/29) is free cone day, so
go get yourself some free ice-cream at any Ben and Jerry’s between noon and 8PM!
Very cool. Check it out:
Details here:
I saw some confusion about this matter on a list this morning, so I thought I’d clarify things here:
Remember that the order of pseudo-class definitions on your CSS file matters! I came across someone today who claimed that the links on his page were behaving inconsistently. Sometimes they would follow the a:hover definition, and sometimes they wouldn’t. To make matters worse, although the behavior was inconsistent on all browsers he tested with, the inconsistencies were not consistent from one browser to another! The problem was that his rules were out of order. He had something like this…
A:link { color: red }
A:hover { color: yellow }
A:visited { color: blue }
… when it should have been this …
A:link { color: red }
A:visited { color: blue }
A:hover { color: yellow }
Links that he had visited were turning blue rather than yellow when he hovered over them. He said it was enough to make him want to go back to JavaScript image roll-overs! Believe me, it’s easier to fix your style sheet. For more information, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes
I have a few questions about the cfreport tag and the use of Crystal Reports in general.
Feel free to answer here or email me directly.
ColdFusion debug information using Mode=debug
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/tn17642.htm
Diagnostic JAR file for data source connection issues
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/tn18355.htm
Data Source Undefined errors when working with ODBC Socket data sources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/odbc_ds_undefined.htm
Firefly refers to a set of components available on the new Flash MX Data Connection Kit. From the website:
The Data Connection Kit provides prebuilt connections to web services, XML data, databases, and application servers so you can easily access, save, and display data.
I saw a demo yesterday of how easy it is to create “data aware” components which hook together into rich, dynamic applications. Very impressive stuff. You can find out more here:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/firefly_components.html