I really like the spreadsheet functions added to ColdFusion 9. It makes my life so much easier but I discovered an annoyance with the spreadsheetFormatColumn function today. It would seem that you have to set the column formats after you add data to a spreadsheet. If you attempt to set it before calling spreadsheetAddRows it [...]
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Railo 3.2 + Tomcat + Mac Snow Leopard + Permission Denied
I’ve finally started playing with Railo and tried installing it on my Mac with Snow Leopard installed. I wasn’t able to get it to run initially but had to make two quick changes to get it running: Give the current user (the user under which you are currently logged in) Read + Write access to [...]
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IE 7/8 PNG-24 transparency issue
We came across an error today with our drop down menu system that uses a PNG-24 semi transparent drop shadow image around the border where the transparency would appear black in IE 7 and IE 8. After searching and trying all possible fixes we found the solution to the problem and it was quite simple. [...]
Also posted in Browsers, Design, Javascript, Programming Tagged Browsers, CSS, Development, Javascript, jQuery 2 Comments
Memory leaks with Coldfusion 8
For the past few weeks I’ve been incognito due to some memory leak issues we’ve been having with our new app. It is essentially a rewrite of our existing web application using Object Oriented techniques and embraces the Model-View-Controller paradigm. It really is a pretty little thing but unfortunately she crumbled under the weight of [...]
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JSON format and serializing ColdFusion query objects
Every so often there is a tiny problem that has you scratching your head until you RTFM. I love JSON, it’s totally awesome and the fact that you can not convert CF objects natively is even better! I ran into a small issue where I was using serializeJSON on a structure that contained a query [...]
