Today we will start trying to work with the brand spanking new Coldfusion 7 Report Builder. In thinking about this I realized that there hasn't been much discussion (if any at all!) about the report builder on any of the lists or blogs that I frequent. Is anyone out there using the report builder? Does anyone know if you can create these reports and have them generated on the fly from coldfusion code? Does anyone know of any quirks or gotchas? Im sure if no one answers I will have some things to talk about with it soon, so stay tuned!

I have been using eclipse with great success for about a month now and im really loving it. Im starting to get used to the environment and where to find everything, even got it working with subversion which is great. I do have one gripe though, and im posting it here only because I know that someone out there probably knows how to fix it. Why is it, that if I create a workspace in a remote server, such as //myremoteserver/inetpub/, that another user using eclipse cannot create a workspace (or at least use that workspace) in the same place at the same time? Is there a workaround for this? This seems sort of rediculous, and I really hate to create a directory structure to allow this because it should be independant of file structure. If we dont get this fixed, then I can't figure a way to have multiple developers working on the same directory at the same time. Also, what exactly is the relationship between the workspace and the files you are currently working on? The documentation is pretty sparse as far as I can tell...

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For the past couple of days my computer has been slowed down quite a bit, to the point that it was lagging severly. I could type something in eclipse and it would take sometimes seconds to actually show up. This isnt a slow machine either, its a pentium M 1.6 (which runs as fast as a p4 3.0) and a gig of memory, and ive never had trouble before, so I knew something was up. I finally tracked it down to the new google desktop beta. It was hogging between 96% and 99% of CPU usage. A quick uninstall and the problem is gone. Whats strange is I didn't seem to have that problem when it was doing its first inital index. Only once that was done and a couple days had passed did the trouble start showing up. Its a shame, I really liked it. Guess Ill give them another shot on the next beta or real release.

I am looking for a directory or library of webservices. Google didnt turn up much so I was wondering what some of the common services that you guys use are. I am particularly interested in weather webservices (specifically that take a zip code and return current conditions and at least a three day forcast, but im really not all that picky ;)) Has anyone else had trouble with finding webservices?

or a better title may have been: Event Gateways, like an american kid in a japanese candy store. Well I started messing around with the event gateways today. With all the hype (and counter-hype) surrounding gTalk and all, I thought it was finally time to have try my hand at it. First epiphany (dont care if thats how you spell it or not ;P): Event gateways are services, not objects!! I am going to have to drill this into my thick head im sure. I was assuming since I was creating an "instance" of the gateway in the administrator, that it was a persistant object. But thats not true, it recreates the component object every time a message is sent (and I can only assume that it is destroyed as soon as it is done doing whatever you have had it do) Next step, figure out why my session scope isnt accessible. application scope is though... and since its not persistant, variables scope in a component wont work either....

I keep seeing this over and over again around the community, mostly the mxna community. People posting something personal, a thought, or an opinion that is not directly related to development or technologies. And then somebody (Im not going to use names here, because 90% of these people are cowards and don't use their real names anyway) decides to click on the link and then proceed to complain in the comments that it isn't development related. And unfortunately this seems to be happening more and more lately. So if you are one of these people, please listen. Anyone has the right to post anything they want. Just because some is aggregated by mxna does not mean that they are now forced or obligated in any way to post only development or technology related material. If they want to post their favorite porn site or link to their favorite spam sites that feature lots of popups, they are completely free too. But you do not have the right to complain about it. Dont click on the link. If you get duped into clicking something you didnt really mean to, make a note of it, remember the blog where it came from and dont visit them again. Get a rss reader and only get the rss feeds you want. Build your own aggregator and only select the feeds that only post development related topics. But realize, if you do that, youre not going to have very many feeds. If it is a blog on a development only site, not a personal site, then yeah, I could see maybe mentioning it. But definately dont come here and cry because I mention that I went on vacation, or I post about my new favorite song. And if you do continue to complain, at least be big enough to leave your real name. Dont be a coward.

Matt Woodward has been holding out on me! He posted this morning about using subversion with the subeclipse. He even gives the link to instructions for installing subversion on windows! Which so far has basically been my holy grail. I have not tried it yet, but you can rest assured, I will be trying it soon. I'll let you know how it goes...

If anyone has posted a comment to my blog in the past couple weeks and I haven't replied, please Let me know. The email address I have in my code for my subscriptions stopped working apparently and I cant change it at the moment. Also, if anyone knows of a free webmail that offers easy pop and smtp access that I can call from inside coldfusion please please please let me know of that too. (or, if any of you have a 1and1.com server and have gotten their email server working with coldfusion, that could help as well....)

Two things of interest to anyone who is going to be using cfforms here. I know I am definately going to be looking for this post again some time. You can not use any of the following actionscript commands in flashforms: import new delete createChild loadmovie duplicateMovieClip AttachMovie registerclass createTextField __proto__ (the capitalization is theirs from the error that is thrown) one thing of notice, and I cant prove this again at the moment, but I am almost certain that I was able to do an import the other day.... more on that later. Now for the second thing of interest. You cant use any of those words in a tooltip in a cfform as well... Now this sucks. So I cant put , at least I cant without cf complaining. So this begs the question, is this an oversight or overzealous code checker or can we use actionscript inside of the tooltips?? UPDATE: new actionscript restrictions in 7.0.1 * createchild * Createchildatdepth * Createchildren * Createclasschildatdepth * Createclassobject * Createemptyobject * createobject * httpservice * remoteobject * Uiobjectdescriptor * webservice

Posted on Tue. August 09, 2005 by Ryan Guill #

Google just released atom (0.3) and rss (2.0) feeds for google news. I can't wait to see what some people do with this.