In our coding environment, like most, we have a development environment and a production environment. As we have been making the move to use more stored procedures and less queries, we have run into an issue where the procs do not get synchronized between the development (dev) and live server.
After spending several hours trying to get this to work, I was finally able to get ColdFusion 7 and Google Talk to communicate with each other.
I steped through the tutorial by Ben Forta on the sys con website, and at then end, was unable to get the event gateway running. It just "stalled" and said starting. It never threw an error (in the eventgateway.log or the exception.log) nor connected; it just said "starting..." but never started.
Then I stumbled on this little gem. I must have looked at 10 different blogs before I found this site on Adobe (thanks Google)
All you have to do is replace the smack.jar with this one, and there is no problem.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=b39b42b5&sliceId=1
I hope this helps!
Well, after the huge success of my last custom tag, I decided to write another. This time, it is incredibly useful, but at the same time completely useless (instead of just partially useless). I'll explain the useful part first.
This tag is designed to read and decrypt a file, but not just any file. In my time working for a large mortgage company, I discovered that the majority of mortgage brokers and loan officers use a piece of software called Calyx Point to manage their loans. Point stores its files on the computer in an "encrypted" format. I did manage to find a plug-in that would read a Point file, but only in VB6. Obviously, this did me no good. So I managed to "crack" the encryption, and wrapped the whole thing in a custom tag. Now, you (or anyone else for that matter) can now process and read Point files via the web using ColdFusion. This saves the broker(s) from having to retype all the borrower/loan information twice (i.e. once in Point, and once on your site, now just once in Calyx Point)
So the other day, I was talking with a friend of mine and we came up with a problem. We were both working on a project, and we ended up with disparate sets of data. The database schemas were the same, but I had inserted some data that he needed. I could have just sent him a SQL backup file, but he had data in his database that I did not have. So the only solution was to create INSERT statements for all the data that I had inserted, and for him to do the same. Obviously, this is a tremendous waste of time. So we came up with "CF_GenInserts"
A friend of mine was telling me about the problem he was having getting Flex to communicate with CF. While it is not difficult in and of its self, the problem is that there are several ways to do it and doing some combination of them will not work. Coming from a Flash background, I am most comfortable/familiar with the Remoting method, so that is what I will demonstrate.
I encountered a strange problem at work the other day. I started getting all kinds of strange fusebox errors, mostly saying that fuses were undefined, that did exist, and the default was looking for a fuse that did not exist! Pretty much drove me insane. The application has 2 "parts" the main site and the admin. In the main site, I am tracking the number of active sessions and a couple other vars. I wanted to be able to check the values of those variables from the admin, so in the Application.cfc of the admin, I specified the same name as the main site. I.e.
Has anyone else encountered a problem like this?
