Disturbing News – US Army Deployed on US Soil For First Time

This is no joke. You should be following this news. Read more @ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/24/army/

Session Info – There is Hope! New Hidden CF8 Method

Ok, trying to be as dramatic as I can be in my title about a new undocumented method in CF8 called “getValueWIthoutChange”. You’ve seen me post before on how hard is to get underlying session information from CF. When I saw this blog post by Terry Palmer, I almost had to blink twice. If you [...]

Remember Reactor ORM?

I don’t know how many of you guys remember Reactor? All the buzz has been around Transfer for the past couple years. We’ve been using Reactor since 2006 in production with little to no issues. Now that Doug Hughes posted that he has handing management of the Reactor Framework to Mark Drew, its great news. [...]

Adobe Presenter Woes

Anyone have experience with Adobe Presenter 7? We’re running quizzes, and have URLs we define for success/failure. I’m not sure how to have it execute any Javascript, which would be ideal. But even when we hard code URLs, one opens a new window, and the other works in the current window despite setting and selecting [...]

Univ. of Maryland's ColdFusion Coding Standards

Just like the Small Business Administration’s doc, I came across this completely by accident. Just like SBA’s doc, this one is pertinent to their environment, but worth a look nonetheless.Download it while you still can! Univ. of Maryland ColdFusion Programming Standards Enjoy!

British Airways CEO: 30 Airlines May Go Bust This Year

Yikes. Be wary travelers! Read more @ http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/warning-30-airlines-will-go-bust-this-year-928774.html?service=Print.

Google May Create Computer Navy; Data Centers in the Ocean

Interesting article on what Google may be planning to do to avoid taxes and lower costs. Read more @ http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4753389.ece?print=yes.

Filling PDF Forms with CF8 to Create a Cert – Gotchas & Tips

Ok, so in my previous post on PDF forms with CF8, I tried really hard to figure why I couldn’t simply create a form in Acrobat, fill it out using CF, and make what I filled out like the other static text, so that the user can’t change the form. Turns out CF8 CANNOT do [...]

SBA's ColdFusion Coding Standards

Look what I found! The Small Business Administration posted a 126 page doc on their CF standards! Download it while you still can! SBA ColdFusion Programming Standards Enjoy!

Help Needed – SVN Merge / Upgrading to SVN 1.5

We’ve been using SVN 1.4 with SVNMerge.exe to manage merges between our branches and trunk. Each developer works in a branch and merge his stuff into the trunk, and also picks up any new stuff from trunk back into his branch. Has worked well for us. We use a tool called svnmerge.exe. Now that SVN [...]