Remove hidden data in Microft Office documents

Railo - another CFMX engine - good stuff!

Virtual Software Installs - if you install a lot of software to try out - this looks useful - allowing you to install on a 'layer'

Pete Freitag's SQL Reserved Word Checker

RDS support in CFEclipse!  The wiki instructions were a bit lacking but I found this post on Ray Camden's site which was helpful in finding the right download - it would be nice if this could be linked from the CFEclipse site.

New on Slashdot and elsewhere about the latest McAfee's virus definitions wiping out a bunch of applications include Office, and according to the Slashdot post - ColdFusion.

I dug around a bit and found this list of affected files and indeed several Java related files are mentioned so it's possible this might trash ColdFusion. More at Sans.org.

Bobby just ran into this and I have as well so I figured I'd blog this to remember it...

If you try to install ColdFusion 6.1 on Win2003 with SP1 it will fail with no errors.  The installer will run but then nothing else will happen. 

It's mentioned here on the Macromedia/Adobe site - see note #60086.

From the note:

On Windows 2003 systems with Service Pack 1 (SP1), the installer immediately exits in the "preparing to install" dialog before extracting files.  This worked previously on Windows 2003 without SP1.

A feature of Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 is "Data Execution Prevention".   This security feature blocks the InstallAnywhere self-extractor for CF 6.1 and all JRun4 Updaters.  (CF 7.0 is not affected).  To fix this problem, do the following:

1. Click Start, right click My Computer, and select Properties.
   
2. On the Advanced tab, click the [Settings] button under the Performance section.
   
3. Select the Data Execution Prevention Tab in the Performance Options dialog
4. Select the radio button for "Turn on DEP ... except those I select:"
   
5. Select "Add" and select the Coldfusion or JRun installer.  (the entry shows up as "InstallAnywhere Self-Extractor" in the dialog)
   
6. Select "Apply" on the "performance options" and "OK" on the "System Properties" page
   
7. Now run the installer

Here is an interesting tech note - our development server (IIS 6) has always been slow since I upgraded to Win2003.  I will investigate to see if this speeds things up?

Saw this interesting article about ColdFusion and  Symantec Norton Internet Security bungling compressed content from web servers.

"Something about how CF reassembles its own responses (those it is responsible for serving) seems, in conjunction with compression, to create response entity that the Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006 (NIS 2006) decompression engine on the client side cannot properly handle."

Something to be aware of if you are seeing unexpected output from CF.