I recently installed Flex Builder 2, and wanted to install the coldfusion extensions, but ran into some issues…
when i installed, the installer asked me if i would like to view the instructions on how to install the coldfusion extensions, but when i clicked yes, nothing happened….

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The service that you have to stop and start is a little wierd at a first glance…
When you look in your windows services you see a few different services that have coldfusion in the name,

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Tonight I grabbed the free version of Smarterstats from Smarter Tools
I tried installing it, and when i installed (IT WENT SUPER SMOOTH) one minor bump in the road though… I tried to import my IIS settings for log files… and it told me that My import didnt have any dad for the last [...]

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I had heard from a blog mkruger.cfwebtools.com
http://www.farcrycms.org that farcry was one of the coolest things ever… so i had to try it…
while installing… i read documentation and watched some of the videos… and from what i see, i believe it is super easy to create a menu structure with farcry, i’m sure thats not [...]

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This code prevents a page from being cached
<CFHEADER NAME=“Pragma” VALUE=“no-cache”>
<CFHEADER NAME=“Expires” VALUE=“Now()”>
<CFHEADER NAME=“cache-control” VALUE=“no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate”>

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I read from ray camden’s blog on how to use a java utility to get the id3 tags from mp3 files…
Ray Camdens Blog
This works fantastic, but i’m working on a amd 1800XP and windows 2k3… it’s a home server… cf 7 developers edition…
I host a music site, and used it to learn coldfusion… “http://www.killtheheart.com”
I’m also [...]

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I was asked to hook up a printer, and I can’t seem to get it to print a test page, it’s a HP OfficeJet 5510v.
When i print a test page it just sits in the windows print spooler.
I stopped the Print spooler by going to the command prompt (Click Start > Run [...]

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Consider having the following tables. (Microsoft RMS) -Item
-id
-cost
-SupplierList
-itemID
-supplierCost
when using RMS, You have an Item, it has it’s own cost… maybe that cost is an average cost, or something like that, and that item may have multiple suppliers, and each supplier has an itemcost associated with it, this sucks with reporting and margins in RMS, [...]

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Here is a way that you can use javascript with flash forms,
we ran into a situation where the flash form got so big on the page, that we had to use javascript to scroll to the top of the page…
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<cfsavecontent variable=“doThis”>
getURL(“javascript:showMessage(” + “‘test’” + “)”);
</cfsavecontent>
<script language=“javascript”>
function showMessage(msg)
{
alert(msg);
}

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The challenge with using cfgrid, is that it doesnt exist in the form in nothing was changed…. here is a script that runs through the grid, and gets the values and puts them in the form scope… You can use this to submit to the session, or another scope of some sort. The [...]

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