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More on Prototype Templates

By barneyb on September 7, 2007

So it turns out I'm a a bit silly (duh).  My previous post on Templates was all well and good, but it didn't consider IE6.  IE6 loudly complains if you have substitution strings in 'id' attributes, so if you need to do that (usually the case), you have to use the TEXTAREA hack I listed.  [...]

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Inline Prototype Templates

By barneyb on September 7, 2007

If you've ever used Prototype's Templates, you'll know how powerful they are. If you haven't tried them, you should. One thing that makes them even more powerful is creating them from in-your-page HTML, rather than as JS Strings. This lets your designer build templates in raw HTML, and then you can transparently [...]

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CF8 and Batik (for SVG)

CF8 and Batik (for SVG)

By barneyb on September 5, 2007

I just discovered that CF8 ships with a more complete Batik than CF7 did. Out of the box it's capable of transcoding SVG graphics to PNGs, which CF7's implementation wasn't capable of doing. With CF7 you had to move the partial Batik that came bundled and replace it with a full version to [...]

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CF8 Mail Spool Directory

By barneyb on September 4, 2007

After a couple days of CF8, I noticed I wasn't getting the emails I was supposed to be getting. Turns out the CF8 installer, at least in multi-server mode, doesn't set the right permissions on the /WEB-INF/cfusion/Mail subdirectories, so CF can't write out the mail spool files. Flipping them to the right group [...]

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CF8 Scheduled Task Migration

By barneyb on September 2, 2007

Turns out the migration of my scheduled tasks wasn't quite perfect.  A couple of them hit a URL protected by HTTP Basic Authentication, and the password didn't translate correctly.  It appears they are stored encoded, so I expect the encoding scheme changed.  Worse, the encoded value of one of them had a double quote which [...]

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My ColdFusion 8 Upgrade

By barneyb on September 1, 2007

I just upgraded my workstation to ColdFusion 8 today, as well as installed it on my server (though it's just testing at this point).  Since it's my first real-world CF8 experience, I figured everyone would want to hear all about it, especially the new features that made the process much easier.
The real motivation for the [...]

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Flex2 (and 3) RemoteObjects over SSL with ColdFusion

By barneyb on September 1, 2007

I just deployed a Flex app to an SSL secured host, and ran into some issues getting AMF over SSL working.  Googling turned up the answers, but in rather fragmented form.  So I'm coalescing them here.  In a nutshell, you have to create a new channel (my-secure-amf) that uses the secured versions of the AMF [...]

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Flex3 Apache Module glibc Gotcha

By barneyb on August 31, 2007

I went to install the Flex3 Apache compiler module on my server today, and it supports glibc 2.4 and higher only, which means no RedHat 4 (or derivatives).  So no Flex server compilation for me, since there doesn't seem to be source anywhere to compile against glibc 2.3.

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Best Sign Ever

By barneyb on August 29, 2007

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Excalibur – RPN Calulator for Windows

By barneyb on August 23, 2007

I've been using Galculator on Linux for a long while now, and I miss it when I'm at work on Windows.  It's not a particularly amazing piece of software, but it is simple, reliable, and easy to use.  So today I went looking for a Windows-compatible RPN calculator, and after trying a few different things [...]

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