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I use Thunderbird as my email client and have been converting my accounts from POP3 to IMAP to access my mail from multiple devices (Laptop, Internet Cafe, Phone, etc).
Our fantastic anti-spam solution, DSPAM, occasionally misses a message. With a POP3 account I would forward it to a special address on our server configured to reclassify [...]

I have a big report that I’m generating using CFDOCUMENT. It replicates a paper form by using a background image of the original form (in PNG format) and overlaying data from a database on top of it, absolutely positioned using CSS.
I have experienced a number of image scaling issues trying to use CSS background [...]

Am I the last one to hear about outbound dialing from your web application? There are a couple of service providers who will let you programmatically initiate an outbound telephone call and incorporate pre-recorded audio or text-to-speech. I just tried a demo of CDyne’s Notify! and you can even set the caller ID [...]

There have been a number of people who identified ColdFusion’s string handling (based on unmutable Java strings) to be somewhat slow.
I build large strings for use in custom reports for my app and I wanted to know how CFSAVECONTENT stacks up to other string handling in CF. Here are three ways (ordered by speed, [...]

When I’m writing Javascript or Actionscript, I like using JSON-style notation for creating objects and variables:
foo = {“status”: true
,”name”: “Brian”
,”values”: [0, 5, 11, 93, 2] }
In ColdFusion, the equivalent would be the tedious:
foo = structNew();
foo.status = true;
foo.name [...]

I have a fairly complex report system in ColdFusion (v7) that takes one or more queries and joins them together in preparation for filtering and display. Some data comes from a database call and some columns are dynamically added to the query via queryAddColumn(), specifying the datatype as we go along like so:

<cfset queryAddColumn(data, [...]

I’m using CFMX 7 and CFDOCUMENT to generate a PDF report I’ve created. It’s a paper form that we’ve “made digital” by placing the original form as a PNG in the background and then overlaying the database-backed information on top.
However, depending on the data, we are seeing weird resizing issues in the background image [...]

I’ve been reading the Dojo-interest mailing list for about two weeks and this quandry, or some variation, has come up 5 times already:
I have a body onload and now Dojo doesn’t work!
In my application, I had some pages with body onLoad specified. Dojo, however, attaches itself behind the scenes to this for its internal [...]

MotorsportReg.com retrieves feeds of events from various sources, typically in CSV. These are usually straight dumps from a database and we have no control over the output. I received a bug the other day that our RSS feed wasn’t validating as UTF-8 and this was breaking many feed readers.
I checked it out and [...]

In my application, we have a session with a 60 minute timeout. Organizers sometimes execute long running tasks or they leave their computer in the middle of something and return only to find out on the next submit (sometimes after accomplishing much work) that they are prompted for a username and password again. [...]