I was trying to upload/post a large file and received a flat boring 404 error from IIS 7. Microsoft Site advices to update the applicationhost.config file in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config and increase the BYTE value of maxAllowedContentLength in the , so the IIS request filter may allow large post data to come through. (more..)

In the previous post I wrote about how to connect to inDesign web services using ColdFusion. But if your inDesign server is running on a deferent IP from your ColdFusion server, you might get an error: Cannot perform web service invocation runScript. ColdFusion gives you this message not because your network administrator blocked the port 18383, you know the it's open because you can access http://my-indesign-server-ip-goes-here:18383/service?wsdl from the ColdFusion box. (more..)

Too often I write “It was too easy with ColdFusion”, it’s becoming a cliché now. Making a QR barcode with ColdFusion was extremely easy too, specially when someone else have already blog about it. I had nothing to dig out, nothing to investigate or haven’t had the need for countless cups of coffee. I wish everything works like that.This uses Google zxing java library. I put necessary classes into a single jar file and you can download the example below. (more..)

Before I found JQuery or JQuery found me and fall in internal blissful love, I wrote an autosuggest dropdown function which I have been using for years. It took almost a week to write and stretch as far as my house to Minnesota. Recently I caught in a habit of simplifying my old pure JavaScript function to JQuery and this function caught me today. After around 20 lines of JavaScript and couple of hours of testing and tweaking this starts to work better than my original function. (more..)

Teapot is a blog application developed with ColdFusion for mainly ColdFusion Developers. It’s rather simple, fun to use and easy to customize. Let’s have fun. (more..)

I was adding an f4v video into a web site today and notice IIS has not registered f4v file type by default and IIS return a 404 - File Not Found error message instead the flash video file. This is a quite easy fix, all we have to do is register f4v MIME type with IIS. (more..)

In Amazon, Kindle received massive 14,168 reviews and 4.5 Stars. Most of those reviews end with a cliché, ‘I love my Kindle’. Well, me too. I love my Kindle, Prometheus Springs, and ColdFusion. They all are extraordinary products. But my Kindle screen broke two times within 6 months, quite the same way. Top half of the screen freeze, like a Mammoth in Siberia. Bottom half other hand works fine. Sort of like a politician. (more..)

I know PostNet is about to expire in couple of months. But today I had to create few shipping labels, and put to gather a simple function to assemble PostNet String. Mind you, this does not create the actual PostNet barcode. I use a PostNet Font to create the barcode, this is to create a valid PostNet string from a ZIP Code so you can print it with a PostNet barcode font. Pass your zip5 or zip9 to the function, it will return the string to be printed. (more..)

Railo installation is getting extremely easy thanks to Vivio Technologies installer. Trying to implement Kakapo for Railo today, I installed Railo on my windows 7, 64 bit laptop and by the time my coffee finished, Railo installation also finished. After mapping a virtual host to my working directory, I typed http://mylocalhost/myfolder/ and it returned an Error, instead index.cfm file in that folder. (more..)

UPS has updated their API documentation recently. Compared to their last documentation, new version is pretty good. If you are planning to use UPS API, first create a UPS account, get hold of an API access Key and most importantly download the API documentation and go through it. UPS shipping service have far too many options and scenarios I cannot explain in a single post. UPS Shipping label creation has three parts, “ShipConfirm”, “ShipAccept” and “Void”. (more..)