The question of unzipping a file came up on the forums again. I’ve always replied that they can use CFX_Zip in CF5 and the java.util.zip package in CFMX. Never having had to actually use this myself in a ColdFusion application, I never relalized that java.util.zip is not all that straightforward.
After some research and one server crash, I put together this UDF.
As part of my Serving Word presentation I created a Multi-part MIME CFC. The component facilitates generation of Multi-part MIME messages. With the component creating complex messages is as simple as a few component calls.
#msg.getMessage()#
In Serving Word I demonstrate how you can use a combination of HTML, XML, and CSS to dynamically generate MS Word documents on the server. The PowerPoint presentation, over 2,000 lines of example code, and a Breeze presentation are available here.
Michael Dinowitz from House of Fusion is co-sponsoring a Windows port of a visual Regular Expression editor. The screen shot looks promising.
Anyone interested in RegExp should check it out. I’ll post again here when it’s released. For now, they’re still looking for a few more sponsors. If you can help, contact document.write(‘‘);Michael Dinowitz
[picked up from Todd Rafferty's blog]
Many of us don’t have the luxury of dedicated servers and have to live with a shared host. Since hosts often limit some CF tags for security reasons, this appears to limit what we can do in CF. This question has come up a number of times in the forums so I put together an example of how to handle file uploads without CFFILE.
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