We were struck by the dreaded error message today This is caused when processing an email with cfpop from a mail box. Usually these bounce emails and are mostly generated by Exchange and Hotmail from the information I can gather. Why do they use utf-7 and not utf-8? Who knows – maybe its just Microsoft […]
I saw a blog the other day and liked the layout. If I remember it I will post it here. It was a full screen, large body area, with two columns for all the associated blog bits like tags, menu, comments and so forth. Its a common layout to see on WordPress and blogger too, […]
During a recent project with a bent on improving UI we decided to take a look at what happened if an over zealous IT administrator in a company decided to disable activeX on his pure Internet Explorer environment. The results were disturbing therefore justifying the mantra that mission critical apps should still be functional without […]
Encryption can be really useful when transferring data between systems, especially when this information has to travel over the internet. There are a number of ways to encrypt things and a number of different protocols that you can use depending on your needs. It doesn’t seem to be terribly well documented out on the web, […]
I am just working on migrating a clients site from a third party provider over to our servers and I thought I could use SQL Management Studio and DTS to move the database. Should be easy right? connect to third party server, right click database, copy et voila! Not so, the other server is running […]
Recently I discussed how to set up HTTP Compression in IIS 6 using its native gzip support. Here are a couple of tools you can use to verify your compression is set up correctly. Both tell you pretty much the same information, simply enter your URL and it tells you the result, and how much […]
By default ajaxCFC includes the JQuery BlockUI plugin to cover the screen and display a message while the ajax request gets processed. Its default message is “please wait….”, so to make it more explanatory we can put a line of code in to help. Taking our last example of retrieving products, lets turn on blockUI: […]
The new version of ajaxCFC that runs on jQuery is excellent and has a bunch of nifty helper functions. I have recently had the need to make the end result less developer friendly and more user friendly. So here we go – how to catch errors with ajaxCFC without using the default error handler. First […]
Just a quick bit of information. We are pretty tight on types of documents that are allowed to be uploaded and users are starting to use Office 2007, so we had to extend our extension and mime type validation to include the new (to the microsoft world) xlsx, docx, ppsx extensions and open XML document […]
