When I first started writing reports, I would jump through all different hoops to output grouped data.

I have looked around some online, and not found a nice pretty image gallery for free, in CF, that I liked. So, here goes my effort to write one. I started it this past week, and while I am off next week I hope to get the majority of it complete. I'm writing this with CF8 in mind, and plan on packing up Model-Glue, transfer, coldspring, jQuery, and anything else I need in the mix into 1 easy to distribute file.

I updated the site with a template from http://www.styleshout.com/. What do you guys think? Some of the links are not live yet, but overall I think its lookin decent. I know, its *very* blue, but thats my favorite web color.

I was trying to configure my web server and coldfusion servers on seperate machines. My IIS server was setup to pull source from d:\webroot. I copied the wsconfig.exe tool and its INI file from my coldfusion server root\bin folder and ran it on my web server too hook them together. When I requested a file, I got a coldfusion message back 'file not found'. If you look at the CF template path, the coldfusion server is looking for D:\webroot\blah.

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I am setting up a registration form, and after validation if any errors occured I would pass back an array of error fields and messages. I wanted a very quick way to see if my array contain an element with the text "username". I know I could write or use a udf that would loop through the array, or I could even convert it to a list and then search that, but none of those solutions felt elegent to me.

Dan Wilson of NoDans.com was speaking about this post today in #coldfusion on DalNet. Evidently, Coldfusion includes a license for the full version of Web Charts (http://www.webcharts3d.com). In the standalone coldfusion install, take a peek in {cfroot}\charting\ for a file called webcharts.bat. This little puppy starts up a java based chart designer where you can tweak your chart styles as much as you want, then save out the XML style and apply it to your own cf-chart.

I was concerned that having my XML files in my config/ folder would be a security vulnerability on my latest MG:U application. After a bit of online digging and doc reference, I found this: This allows me to move my ColdSpring.xml file off to a mapped location instead of my web root! You cannot access the mapped locations by browsing to them, but coldfusion still see's them just fine. Inside of ColdSpring.

Tidbits have been turning up around the net recently of a new adobe project entitled Thermo. Mark Ander posted to his blog that the minor leaks have been mostly according to plan. From the MAX preso, Thermo will be able to take a layered Photoshop PSD and convert it to a fully function FLEX application in minutes. Adobe is wasting no time bringing their photo-focused software into line with their RIA and web development aquisitions from Macromedia. Go Adobe!

I maintain some code that made use of InterAKT's WYSIWYG HTML editor. After the coldfusion 8 roll-out, I was getting strange errors on several pages, with this in my logs: java.lang.StackOverflowError at coldfusion.runtime.NeoBodyContent.cfoutput(NeoBodyContent.java:121) at coldfusion.runtime.NeoBodyContent.cfoutput(NeoBodyContent.java:121) at coldfusion.runtime.NeoBodyContent.cfoutput(NeoBodyContent.java:121) at coldfusion.runtime.NeoBodyContent.cfoutput(NeoBodyContent.