Category Archives: ColdFusion

May 27, 2010
CFML issue on Railo with the accelerate cache tag– also posted in Railo

We’ve been using Brandon Purcell’s excellent accelerate custom cache tag for a few projects. I had an issue today while testing a new app which is about to go live. It seemed that whatever I did nothing would be cached.
Upon investigation it seemed that the caching worked fine on Adobe ColdFusion but not on Railo. [...]

May 13, 2010
Removing duplicate rows in Open Office (calc)

I needed to de-dupe a spreadsheet the other day and found a great how-to from google. Thought I’d post it here for my own future purposes:

There is no automatic function to remove duplicate rows. Follow these steps to delete all rows that have duplicate values in column A:

Select all cells of the current data range.
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May 9, 2010
IE and underscores in domain names– also posted in Misc

Ok, a short warning to those who use underscores in their domain names. Underscores you say? Aren’t they illegal characters in domain names? Why yes they are (but I think they’re valid in sub-domains…not sure), but you may find yourself using them in development environments, particularly if you’re doing a re-design. Think something like http://mysite_v2.local/ [...]

March 3, 2010
Detecting https across Railo and ColdFusion Server– also posted in Railo

Previously I had a way of detecting whether page requests were being made via ssl but today I came across a scenario where this doesn’t work. Let me explain…
Right now we’re looking at developing across different ColdFusion engines, “ColdFusion” of course but also “Railo”. One of the applications we had detected whether a request was [...]

January 19, 2010
cfhttp issues using “.local” on Max OSX

Ran into an interesting problem today doing something quite simple. Basically all I was doing was posting xml data to a URL, but I kept getting a 408 request timeout and I didn’t know why.
We happen to use the “.local” domain name structure for local development. I was posting data from one local site to [...]