Did you know you can write a time machine with ColdFusion MX? Apparently if you call createUUID repeatedly it will cause you to leap forward in time. Well, really it just changes your system clock a little.
Details and work-around in this new technote.
ColdFusion MX: CreateUUID Increases the Windows System Clock Speed.
Do you use CF Studio or HomeSite+? Do you use CVS? Did you know that you can use CVS within CFStudio and HomeSite+ without setting anything up in CFStudio/HomeSite+? I didn’t until recently when I stumbled across it.
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A few people have asked how to foce a page break inside a Word document when generating it through HTML/XML/CSS as I described in an earlier post. You can force page breaks by using a <br> tag with a page-break-before style setting, as in the following code.
Page One
Page Two
This particular CSS property is actually not MS Word specific and works in standard HTML pages with modern browsers including Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 7.0. It’s safely ignored by Netscape 4.7. When used in a standard HTML page displayed in a browser, the display appears like a normal break on screen but foces a new page when printed.
There’s been a little discontent about the Flash content in DRK 5 on some mailing lists. If people paid for DRK 1-4 then they already have the components in DRK 5, they just don’t work with Flash MX 2004. The question is why should people pay again for components they already own?
As it turns out, all the components in DKR 5 that are upgrades of earlier components (everything except the new TabBar), will be made available for free from Macromedia to DRK 1-4 customers.
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SOAP Web Services are almost always talked about in relation to HTTP, as HTTP is the most common transport mechanism. However, the SOAP specification is written such that the messages can be sent over a variety of protocols. Persistent connections such as Jabber or HTTP-R could provide improved performance when multiple calls are required.
Or, if you have other needs, carrier pigeons are also fully supported. Read the RFC.