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.NET: Need To Drop The Span Tag From the Label Control? Use the Literal Control Instead

By mfleming ⋅ July 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Have you ever had the need to use a label control, but you don’t need the span tag that the control automatically wraps around the text? Switch your control over to the Literal control instead. It serves the same general purpose as the label control, but will not wrap your output in those pesky span [...]

Adobe Releases Public Betas of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder

By mfleming ⋅ July 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This is just a quick note that Adobe has released the public beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and the new ColdFusion Builder. Download links are below. I would also like to point out that while you try these versions out, please report any bugs you find to Adobe. This will benefit them by allowing them [...]

Adobe Releases Hotfix for FCKEditor Security Issue

By mfleming ⋅ July 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Adobe has just released the hotfix for the FCKEditor security issue. You can read about and download the hotfix directly from Adobe. A summary of the potential exploit taken from the Adobe security bulletin: A vulnerability in FCKEditor, which is included as part of ColdFusion 8, could allow a remote attacker to upload files in [...]

Google To Launch New OS

By mfleming ⋅ July 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night Google dropped some very big news to the world: Google Chrome OS. Yes, you heard that right, Google will be releasing a new operating system. From the small details that were revealed, the OS will be based on a Linux kernel and will first be targeted to netbooks and will be open source. [...]

FCKEditor Security Issue Not Just a ColdFusion Problem

By mfleming ⋅ July 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

While reading through some of the ColdFusion blogs the last couple of days, I think one issue has been missed: The security vulnerability in FCKEditor exists outside of ColdFusion. In other words, if you are using the FCKEditor tool outside of ColdFusion, or your ColdFusion site uses the stand alone version (and not the embedded [...]

Authorize.Net Suffers Major Outage

By mfleming ⋅ July 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For those of you who own or maintain sites that use Authorize.NET to process transactions, you may have noticed a severe outage of the service over the weekend. Twitter was abuzz with the issues that according to the folks at Authorize.Net was due to a fire at their main data center. Apparantly this affected all [...]

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