If you run a web server on your machine and you have Skype, you might have problems with Skype preventing your web sites from starting. If you try to start them you'll get a message stating that the resource is in use... this is because Skype automatically takes over ports 80 and 443 as "alternatives for incoming connections."
I recently updated my work laptop to 64-Bit Windows 7 so that I could up my RAM, and found that after installing CF IIS 7.0 threw 0x800700c1 errors. Luckily, after some googling, I found the answer.
This is one of those notes-for-my-future-self type posts related to a bizarre behavior with ColdFusion's
I was trying to diagnose a problem with an application today that only seems to be present in Safari. This lead me to think of Safari's Developer Tools, which I remembered were pretty comparable to Firebug for FireFox. My biggest problem was figuring out how to TURN THEM ON.
I started diving into using ColdFusion's capabilities to work with Excel spreadsheets for the first time today. Even though its been a part of ColdFusion since CF9 dropped in 2009, I've not been called on to use the functionality, so I'm a bit behind the curve. Once I got moving though, I found some annoyances and gotcha's that drove me to come up with a couple of new UDFs to ease my pain. Find SpreadsheetExpandedInfo() and SpreadsheetGetData() after the jump.
I'm Jon Hartmann and I'm a Javascript fanatic, UX/UI evangelist and former ColdFusion master. I blog about mysterious error messages, user interface design questions, and all things baffling and irksome about programming for the web.