QuackFuzed [ Ramblings of a Con..ColdFuzed Mind ]

Disabling the God-Awful "Emergency Alerts" on a Samsung Galaxy S2

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:53:00 -0700

I've had my Galaxy S2 for well over a year now, and until yesterday I had never even heard of an "emergency alert" on a phone. I was focused on something when suddenly the silence was pierced by my phone screaming at me and a message popping up about... [More]

cf.Objective() 2013 Call for Speakers

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:32:00 -0700

The cf.Objective() Content Advisory Board have just officially opened the Call for Speakers for the 2013 edition of The World's Only Enterprise ColdFusion Conference. Last year we had speakers from all around the world: USA, Canada, England, Ireland,... [More]

XUbuntu: Setting Default "Open with..." Application

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:05:00 -0700

I want to use the various Libre Office products as my defaults. XUbuntu wants me to use something else. I win. [More]

jQuery next()/nextAll()/siblings() + dialog() Gotcha

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:31:00 -0700

So today I was writing up a simple little form hint with a jQuery UI dialog popup with more details on the hint. The code was actually quite simple: [More]

Thank You, cfUniForm...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:13:00 -0700

This probably comes as no surprise, but it has been many years since I have written a form without the aid of cfUniForm. Today, however, I had a need to throw together a ridiculously quick and simple upload form on a project that only has this one fo... [More]

cfUniForm v4.6.0 - IMPORTANT PrettyComments XSS Vulnerability Fix Release

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:38:00 -0700

IMPORTANT: If you have textareas in any of your forms, you will want to upgrade! A big THANK YOU! to Marc Esher for identifying an XSS vulnerability with the plugin that cfUniForm had previously used for "expandable" textareas. Marc contacted the... [More]

Mura CMS Mailing List Import: How to Avoid a PATH Error

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:58:00 -0700

Before I get into the meat of the post, I have to give some major props to the folks at Blue River. In no particular order, Christine, Sean, Matt, Malcom, Steve, and Eddie put together an absolutely awesome conference, MuraCon 2011 last week in beau... [More]

ColdFusion/Railo on Tomcat: Request Timeouts

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:49:00 -0700

This is totally basic stuff for those who are use to a Tomcat setup, but for those who are new (or relatively new, like myself) to Tomcat, it's critical information. Hopefully by posting it I will do two things: Help someone else Remember it m... [More]

Announcing the cfUniForm-users Mailing List

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:16:00 -0700

Short. Sweet. To the point. http://groups.google.com/group/cfuniform-users?lnk=gcimh Done.

cfUniForm v4.5 - Now on GitHub

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:58:00 -0700

After being prodded by several folks for over a year now to move cfUniForm to a public repository, and specifically GitHub, I am pleased to announce that I have finally taken the Git plunge. Git is a dramatic departure from SVN, but it is oh so good...

Forms That Don't Suck - Preso & Code (Finally)

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:42:00 -0700

Wow. I, ummm, don't even know what to say. I cannot believe it is July already. The last few months have been a massive whirlwind of activity around the Quack household: remodel, band booster stuff, conferences, presentations, graduation, new job.... [More]

Integrating Mura CMS and Hoth Exception Tracker for ColdFusion

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:56:00 -0700

A few months back Aaron Greenlee released his Hoth project, which is an exception tracking/reporting application for CFML. I've been wanting to find time (let me know if you've ever found time) to take a look at it, but haven't had a chance. Until ... [More]

XStandard + jQuery

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:37:00 -0700

We have used XStandard for many years now, and always used a JavaScript-free setup. When Firefox 4 came out, everything stopped working; the editor content was no longer being posted back to the server. [More]

Firebug: "missing } after property list"

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:46:00 -0700

So I was doing some "quickie" JavaScript today, using jQuery, of course. I scribbled out some code. Then I decided to change the way I was going to handle it, so I commented out little bits and changed the code. I then decided to go back to my ori... [More]

Last Few Hours For 2011 cf.Objective() Early Bird Price

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:34:00 -0700

HURRY! If you have not yet registered for cf.Objective() 2011, make sure you do it *tonight*! The early bird discount price ends today. Go register now!!