While creating a new ColdFusion server I attempted to change the Windows Service account to a domain service account. I’ve done this on almost every ColdFusion server I’ve ever setup because they typically need access to network resources and it makes it easy to manage the application rights. This time however I was unable to […]
read moreRan across an interesting problem. While setting up a new Windows 2008 R2 erver and website on IIS; I noticed that the site was generating 500 errors when serving static files (images, css, html, etc.) I turned on Failed Request Tracing and noticed that I was getting this logged This configuration section cannot be used […]
read moreWhen running Coldfusion on OSX with RDS enabled you may receive a 404 error when trying to connect your IDE (CF Builder, Homesite, etc.) After reviewing permissions and configuration I found that the issue was Apache checking for the existence of the page prior to attempting to run it. The RDS IDE functions/page does not […]
read moreWhile trying to use a Scripted Data Source within BIRT Report Designer I ran across this error: BIRT ReferenceError: <OBJECT> is not defined Where OBJECT is any Java class. My Java class was very simple. I verified my JAR file was in the plugin scriptlib folder C:\eclipse_birt\plugins\org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_4.3.1.v201309171028\birt\scriptlib My problem was that my Java class had […]
read moreWhile trying to automate the creation of new IIS websites using PowerShell I needed a script to create IIS virtual directories with a specific login (i.e. Connect As) After several hours of searching and trying various solutions I finally arrived at this: $sitename = “My Website Name” $virtualdirectory = “virtual1” $virtualdirectorypath = “C:\My Virtual Path” […]
read moreWhile deploying my first Coldfusion 10 server on Windows 2008 R2 SP1, I ran into this strange behavior. My IIS Default website had no issues processing CFM files after the install. However other IIS sites would not process any CFM pages. The message I received from IIS was the standard 404. Accessing the URL on […]
read moreI upgraded from Windows 7 Enterprise to Windows 8 Enterprise. My upgrade was very smooth. Probably the easiest Windows upgrade I’ve done. The new OS seems as solid as Windows 7. I thought the new Modern UI (aka Metro) would present a problem in my day to day use of the OS and applications. Surprisingly […]
read moreA simple code example using VB.NET LAMDA’s to create an inline BackgroundWorker object. I’m not a VB guru so there may be better ways to do this. MY REQUIREMENTS: Inline (all started from a single CLICK event) Async HTTPWebRequest Populate ComboBox/Input with JSON formatted request results VB.NET Dim requestWorker As BackgroundWorker = New BackgroundWorker() AddHandler […]
read moreI recently installed Nodeclipse for developing Node.js. Nice little editor with some code hinting and quick Node run command. Due to my development requirements (and laziness) I wanted to work with the remote JS files using FTP. Nodeclipse does not support FTP out of the box. Enter “Remote System Explorer” for Eclipse. The plugin installed […]
read moreSimple Windows command-line to generate files for testing: fsutil file createnew <filename> <length in bytes>
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