Category: Agent K on CF

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XML parsing error

by kai on 16/05/2006

Ever ended up with the following error? "An error occured while Parsing an XML document. The processing instruction target matching "" is not allowed." It happened to me today when I was trying to parse a highly complex chunk of XML with XMLParse(). Eventually I found out that it came down to basically a SAXParseException and it was reasonably easy to solve by changing my code…

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Mystic beta 3 and Multiserver installations

by kai on 14/05/2006

Today I was trying to set up Mystic beta 3 for my multiserver configuration on my work machine. I run CF 7, Flex 1.5 and some more instances containing Java apps on JRun 4 (Windows box, default installation on C drive). When I was stepping through the installation wizard of Mystic all was fine up to the point when I had to decide for standalone or multiserver. I know that standalone works fine,…

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CFLOGIN madness

by kai on 12/05/2006

Something really interesting - well, at least if you try to fix it and it doesn't work :)... I've tried to use GetAuthUser() within a new ModelGlue application I'm just writing. The idea was to put the username of the person currently logged in into the event by using arguments.event.setValue within a controller method. For whatever reason it stayed blank and contained the correct user not before…

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RDS plugin for Eclipse: first thoughts

by kai on 26/03/2006

You might have noticed that Adobe released an RDS plugin for Eclipse. It's officially known as a "ColdFusion Extension for Flex Builder 2.0", but at least the recent version works totally smoothly without Flex Builder 2.0 beta but with CF Eclipse. As it seems that there was some confusion around it regarding the required (CF)Eclipse version etc., I'm running Eclipse 3.1.1 and a nightly build of…

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Some mixed stuff

by kai on 18/03/2006

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days:

Good CSS tutorials

Microsoft IE Active Content Update - particularly important for Flash developers
Breezo on IE Update
Flex 1.5 patch for IE update

Nokia Flash Lite Zone

Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com:

XMP toolkit
Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration
AS 3 libraries
Flex-Ajax integration

Search Engines and Flash

Everything Flex Blog

An interesting discussion on expiring form data in CFFORMS

JSON

by kai on 10/03/2006

I've never heard about JSON until some weeks ago when I was reading an article on web services and data exchange that mentioned JSON. Actually it is a pretty cool mechanism to serialize complex data structures for data exchange or storage purposes. I hear you saying..."Well, we have that in ColdFusion already, it's called WDDX". Right - good point. Let's have a closer look: - WDDX is built into…

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The woes of using undocumented stuff in CF

by kai on 20/02/2006

Today I got a very interesting issue. I was working on some code written by somebody else who is (obviously when running in one of "those" issue) not in the company anymore. It was part of Novasphere, a CMS engine we use at ZeroOne. When I was trying to set up a new Novasphere instance on a CF 7 box I wondered that some functionalitites didn't work. My colleague Max and I started debugging it and…

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Job offers 2006, part III

by kai on 20/02/2006

2006 seems to be a good year for CF in Germany, hmmm? Third job posting within one and a half months... My former co-worker Michael Jung is looking for CF freelancers who have experience with the content management solution Contens. Project references of former work done with Contens must be available and location North-Rhine Westfalia is preferred.

If you're interested, contact him via email (lastname@twt.de).

Another job posting :)

by kai on 12/02/2006

Another posting for a CF developer position in Germany. My former emplyer, msg at.NET (now msg systems), is looking for CF developers.

The position is based in Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia. If you're interested, feel free to contact Michael Quack (email follows the syntax: firstname_lastname@msg.de) directly.

CFDOCUMENT and print stylesheets - sweet...

by kai on 26/01/2006

It took me half a day wondering why a set of particular documents didn't render correctly with CFDOCUMENT. Well - I thought they didn't render correctly. The mentioned documents were some webpages using Ben's Aura layout templates. They showed up pretty, well... "plain" in the pdf file. My first guess was that CFDOCUMENT wouldn't deal correctly with the tags used to include the style sheets,…

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