I have an obsession with making virtual machines as tight as possible. I've been working on a Microsoft Windows "Server" 2003 R2 SP2 image for a while -- the production environment hasn't been upgraded to Linux yet. The screenshot shows how few pr...

There are lots of ways to parse the name/value pairs wrapped into so-called SES URLs. Ray has a good post and discussion on the topic at ColdFusionJedi.com. I encountered a situation today where parsing the URL within ColdFusion caused a page with...

While working on (surprise) ColdFusion 9 server upgrades, I encountered issues with the new version of Apache POI and existing libraries. I looked into the $CF9/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib directory to find a file simply named poi.jar. On ColdFusion 8, th...