QuackFuzed [ Ramblings of a Con..ColdFuzed Mind ]

cfUniForm v4.6.0 - IMPORTANT PrettyComments XSS Vulnerability Fix Release

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:38:00 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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 -0000

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!!

I am Attending OpenCF Summit

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:18:00 -0000

Living here in West Texas is kind of remarkable in a lot of ways. The savage beauty of the desert plains is remarkable. But nothing is more remarkable than the fact that out here you are 6 hours from anywhere, yet 3 hours from absolutely nowhere. ... [More]

if ( obj.returnVoid() ) { throw("NullPointerException"); }

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:29:00 -0000

Okay, so this is relatively elementary, but since I did it _again_ I decided to go ahead and write a short post about it. Hopefully writing it out in paragraphs instead of simply fixing the screwup will help me actually remember it and think of this... [More]

Humbled and Honored: Speaking at cf.Objective() 2011

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:47:00 -0000

Hot off the presses (I think it's still hot after a couple of hours?) is the schedule for cf.Objective() 2011. Over its history, cf.Objective() has proven itself as the leader in quality speakers and content. This year's schedule is just over the t... [More]

Getting Google Apps Calendar Events to Show Publicly

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:20:00 -0000

I have been struggling to get a Google Apps calendar to show the event details publicly. All I could ever get it to do was show up as "Busy". Thankfully I just found this post that gave me the secret ingredient that I was missing. Since it was suc...

cfUniForm v4.1 - Minor Release Update to Uni-Form 1.4

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:21:00 -0000

I just released cfUniForm 4.1 on RIAForge. As far as cfUniForm is concerned, this is a minor release done for the specific purpose of updating cfUniForm with the latest release (1.4) of the Uni-Form markup and CSS spec. On the other hand, for those... [More]