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I don’t know much about the world of Domino, but I’ve done my share of integration with Lotus Notes in the last couple of years. Usually, it’s by 3rd party apps and poor hacks. They really don’t make it easy sometimes. Recently, I wanted to link an Intranet application to a Lotus Notes Yellow Pages type database. The goal was to be able to select a person from my application, hit a link, and popup a copy of that persons entry in the yellow pages. The database was already setup by the Domino folks to be web accessable, however I wanted to go right to a specific record.

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion, Lotus Notes

Adobe had posted a Technote a while back about getting error 401 when trying to use RDS. See: here. I was happy to find this article so quickly, and it turns out I did infact have Windows Authentication turned on for CFIDE. However, after fixing my CFIDE directory, I still was getting a 401 when trying to use RDS (by way of Report Builder). The fix for me was to also turn off Integrated Windows Authentication on the JRUNSCRIPTS folder. I sent a note over to Adobe to get the Technote updated, but in the mean time I hope this post helps someone out.

Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion

In the last few weeks I’ve starting toying around with Subversion as a version control system for my ColdFusion work. It’s my first jump into this, or anything like this (i.e. VSS, or CVS). With the help of Joe and his article Setting Up Subversion In An Instant, it was easy as pie. That article, along with all the supporting documentation, should get you started. I should start off by admitting that I have Subversion running on a Windows box.

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Chris ColdFusion, Subversion ColdFusion, Subversion

A common question I’ve seen around is how to get a users NT login name, even when Anonymous access is turned on. As you may be aware, when both Windows Authentication and Anonymous Access are turned on, the web server doesn’t send the 401 code to the browser, and the browser doesn’t send the server the info. This means that we can’t get the data from the CGI scope.

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion

The cfQuickDocs Firefox Plugin has been updated to point to the new www.cfquickdocs.com, instead of the old TechFeed site. This was at the request of the owner of the blog. Anyone already using the plugin may be updated automatically within 2 weeks, but as of right now, the old site is still up and running, so your existing plugins will work.

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Chris ColdFusion cfquickdocs, ColdFusion

In a recent article, I discussed how you can use Oracle XE to build a local development database. I have also built a script that will recreate my staging database (which is just another local database) from production whenever I need to. This will allow me the ability to easily refresh my database when needed, then run my test scripts against it to make sure it works.

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Chris Oracle Oracle

Did you know that inside of a query loop you can determine on which row you are located? It’s one of the details exposed to you when looping through that query. You can access the value by referring qryName.currentRow. The row is 1 based (meaning it starts with 1 and not 0), and can be accessed like so (assumes you’ve already built your query):

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion

If you have a flash form with tabs that submits to itself, something you might like to add to your user interface is having the last tab the user was viewing come back by default, instead of the first. I’ve described the way I have done this in the past below.

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion, Flash

I wanted to share a script with everyone that I setup to help someone else randomly replace words in a string. This function will take a string (inputString), then replace occurances of oldKeyword with newKeyword, but not every single time, randomly.

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion

As you may find after upgrading to ColdFusion MX, and/or deciding that Oracle is the right database for you, ColdFusion MX Standard Edition does not come with drivers to connect with Oracle. You can buy drivers, you can use other methods to connect, but there’s nothing built-in.

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Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion, Oracle