Archive for 2007

Good Web Design

I generally create business applications in my ColdFusion programming and usability is always at the top of my list.

webpagesthatsuck.com has a great post with some really good tips and examples of what not to do.

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as web
05Oct
0

PHRF Fall Series #2

I haven't been posting much about my sailing... I'm still doing foredeck on Cheetah and we usually sail every Wednesday in addition to the races. The PHRF Fall series has started in Jacksonville and we took a second place in race #1. Race #2 was yesterday and what a hoot! It was a Nor'easter blowing 20-25 knots all afternoon and made for some fun times. I love these conditions. There were only 5 boats in the spinnaker class. I'm sure the weather kept many boats at the dock. Wimps!

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Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as sailing
30Sep
0

Per Application Settings Rock!

I never liked my folder layouts on shared hosting servers. I would place transfer, fusebox, customtags, and other items in the web root that really did not belong there. I'm now moving an application from CF7 on shared hosting to CF8 on a Win2k VPS at ahphosting. This is the perfect opportunity to try out CF8's new per application settings for mappings and custom tag paths.

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Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as coldfusion
30Sep
0

Ext-JS Data Types

I just started using Ext-JS and am mildly impressed with what it can do. The documentation lacks a little though. The API is well documented, but trying to really learn how to use it effectively is rather difficult when just using the API. There are quite a few good examples, which help a lot. Here is a quick listing of the data types:

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Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as javascript
28Sep
1

xp_sendmail: failed with mail error 0x80004005

Ever get this error with MS SQL2000? 
xp_sendmail: failed with mail error 0x80004005
Microsoft would have you doing all sorts of shenanigans with Active Directory.

In my case, xp_sendmail would work fine from one server, but not another. They both used the same AD account, so that didn't seem too logical of a fix.

Restarting SQL Server Agent service didn't help. Simply running these 2 stored procedures fixed it: 

EXEC xp_stopmail 
EXEC xp_startmail
All I can figure is that there was a communication breakdown between my SQL server and Exchange and SQL doesn't recover very gracefully from that.

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as database
07Sep
5

New layout for BlogCFC v5.6.002

My wife found this cool template set at: www.1234.info

...so I decided to attempt converting my vanilla yellow installation of BlogCFC! I think it turned out pretty well.

The down-side of this is that I will have to convert each upgrade... That will be a pain.

This took a couple of evenings to modify and quite a few of the BlogCFC files had to be modified. It was way more then just dropping in new stylesheets.

I've zipped up the changes as well... Enjoy!

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as blogcfc
20Jul
0

Update on BlogCFC and Bluedragon compatibility

I had previously posted about my trials of installing BlogCFC on Bluedragon 6.2.1.

Since then I have upgraded to Bluedragon 7, but hadn't gotten around to testing the unmodified BlogCFC with it.

So tonight, I finally tested the vanilla installation of BlogCFC v5.6.002 and it works perfectly including Captcha.

Case closed...

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as blogcfc, cfml alt
17Jul
0

Railo - A look at one fast alternative

I have a CentOS VPS at Viviotech, which is running Bluedragon 7. This is really for my personal web sites and not really a money making proposition! I haven't been overly excited about Bluedragon and started looking around for alternatives. I'm also planning a site that could potentially be high traffic, so performance is also on my mind. All the current buzz is about ColdFusion8, which is great, as there are some neat new features, but I wanted to keep an open mind. (I'm sure I'll lobby for CF8 heavily at my day job when it is finally released though!). To think that I'm still using CF5! Jeepers. I saw a post by Sean Corefield about Railo and decided to take a look.

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Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as cfml alt, coldfusion
16Jul
0

Linux script and bad interpreter error

OK... So what do you get when DOS and Linux collide and you don't know Linux that well?

"bad interpreter: No such file or directory" error messages when trying to execute a script!

I am testing out Railo 2 RC2 on CentOS using the Railix download. Now Railo loads wicked fast, but I couldn't get it to start from the supplied start.sh file. Well, thanks to this forum entry, it was a simple fix, "dos2unix xxx.sh".

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as linux
14Jun
0

Crewed on a J/29

I took the Flying Scot back down to the Rudder Club on Wednesday. I got it rigged up fairly quickly, even though I left my tools at home... Grrr... No one showed up for the Wednesday night races, but John and Hoss where taking out the J/29 and asked me to tag along. It was really blowing and we probably had too large of a head sail up, but it was a blast. A wee bit wet as the river was pretty choppy and the J/29 does not have much freeboard. I really liked the boat and hope to go out on it again.

Posted by Terry Schmitt. Tagged as sailing
11May
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