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Google Thought Entire Internet Was Malicious

By mfleming ⋅ January 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Oops!  That's the word from Google today after a "human error" led to malicous warnings from all results returned from a search.  They initially placed the blame on non profit site StopBadware.org, but since have admitted the error was in fact the fault of Google.  Google has proven that everyone does indeed make mistakes! Read [...]

SQL Server Script to Search For a String in a Table

By mfleming ⋅ January 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I had an urgent request the other day to find all the pages on a site that contained a certain string of text.  The entire website is dynamic, so all the content lives in the database.  I came across an article from MSSQLTIPS.com that showed a nice little stored procedure to search for a string [...]

Using the Barbecue Java Library in ColdFusion to Create Barcodes

By mfleming ⋅ January 28, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

A few years ago I was tasked with creating some dynamic PDF files that contained  a couple of barcodes in them.  I started looking around for components or libraries that I could use through ColdFusion to feed the images into CFDOCUMENT.  I stumbled across an open source Java library named Barbecue (clever name!).  Since ColdFusion [...]

Uh, Which Button Do I Press?

By mfleming ⋅ January 27, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

The image below is a shot of the cockpit of the space shuttle. Please, make sure you press the right button! Click the image below for the full size picture.

Installing ColdFusion on Windows Server 2008 64-bit

By mfleming ⋅ January 27, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Late last week I spent a day trying to install ColdFusion 8 Enterprise on a new 64 bit Windows Server 2008 server.  It did not go well at first.  The install itself succeeded, but nothing was working.  When trying to launch the administrator to complete the installation, IIS threw one of the most bizarre error [...]

ColdFire Debugger Updates

By mfleming ⋅ January 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Nathan Mische has announced an update to the ColdFire debugger that includes debugging for the built in cfajax features.  Sounds very cool.  You can download it from RIAForge.

Facebook an Unlikely Tool in Israel-Hamas Conflict

By mfleming ⋅ January 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Below is a link to a NY Times piece on how people were using Facebook to voice their sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.  Amazing how powerful the Internet is today. Revolution, Facebook Style via the New York Times

Obama Gets to Keep His Blackberry

By mfleming ⋅ January 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New president Barack Obama has won his fight to continue to use his precious Blackberry device.  Security officials initially ruled he could not use it while in office, but with some handy work from the NSA, they have super charged the security of the device. Read more from ABC News.

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