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Archive for August, 2009

ColdFusion Bug # 79585 – Mail Server Hard Coding in CFMAIL – Vote!

Here is what I entered for the details of the bug. “When there is an error sending mail through a server, through large batch for example, the mail ends up in the Undelivr folder. This is expected behavior. However, the individual CFMail files in that folder, have the SMTP server explicitly hard coded. If that [...]

Microsoft sucks at Photoshop

Take a look at this Engadget post. See anything weird. http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/ Need a hint: Look at the guy in the middle. The head is messed up and so is the hand!

Reading Text Files Through Line Number – A Solution

As you guys may know, on one of my production boxes, I’ve been having CFMail issues. Details here. Here is an image of the problem:   As well, I looked parsing the necessary cfmail files to get rid of defective line. But looking at ColdFusion and Java (and even .NET), nothing stood out. So that [...]

Hiring Woes!

As I’ve been trying to hire for several different ColdFusion positions over the past few months, I’ve come across a lot of interesting folks and I’ve made a ton of interesting observations. While I won’t name names, I would say that there are definitely some people I would never work with. Like Sean Corfield, who [...]

Help! Reading Text Files Through Line Number

As I deal with the mail server issue (see previous post), I was thinking how to automate some of the find and replace I am doing. I know that CF8 has many new functions and memory enhancements when dealing with files, but I was wondering if anyone has a UDF or CFC dealing with the [...]

Help! Funky CF Mail Issue – ${mailServer}

Has anyone encountered this issue before? All emails seem to go into the UnDelivr folder, and each email has “server:  ${mailServer}:25″ in the header instead of the valid mail server. Beside the fact that this is an annoying function of CF Mail (hard coded values, when it should just use the default in CFAdmin), I’m [...]

Reminder – We're hiring like crazy! Jobs, jobs, jobs!

You heard me right, we’re hiring like crazy. Just a reminder. We have openings for: Web Developers Sr. Web Developers Architects / Principal Engineers Dev. Managers Our team became smaller over time due to the economy, and as people moved on to try different things, and we’re ready to hire. We’ll even consider working with [...]

Security Alert – Subversion 1.6.4 Released

Subversion 1.6.4 has been released to fix a vulnerability. Version 1.6.4(06 Aug 2009, from /branches/1.6.x)http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.6.4 User-visible changes: * fixed: heap overflow vulnerability on server and client See CVE-2009-2411, and descriptive advisory at http://subversion.tigris.org/security/CVE-2009-2411-advisory.txt More details below. Subversion 1.6.4 has been released, available from:     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.4.tar.bz2     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.4.tar.gz     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.4.zip     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.4.tar.bz2     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.4.tar.gz     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.4.zip [...]

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