ClickCulture is looking for ColdFusion / .NET web developers!

We are looking for bright, energetic, hard working individuals who enjoy working in fast paced environments and who are willing to assume increasing responsibilities.

Position Description:

Perform web-based software development tasks including gathering requirements, coding, testing, and documentation. Work could include modifications of existing applications as well as development of new applications.

Must have solid working knowledge of:
HTML, CSS, ColdFusion MX and/or .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, and JavaScript.

Working knowledge of Fusebox or other frameworks, XML, Subversion a plus!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design and development of new web applications based upon best practices.
• Resolve technical issues, and ensure proper operation of existing web-based products and services.
• Ensure development consistency and strive for continued development innovation.

Candidate should possess:

• 3+ years developing ColdFusion and/or .NET applications.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of complex database-driven projects.

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

If you meet these qualifications, we invite you to submit a resume and cover letter:

e-mail: jobs @ clickculture.com
fax: (919) 420-7758

Please no phone calls or postal mail.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

I've been tearing my hair out for the last two days trying to debug Verity/vspider since we've upgraded to CFMX 7. I have been using vspider to index two sites successfully on 6 and after the upgrade they were no longer working.

The spider was running and the collection was getting populated but cfsearch would fail complaining it could not find the collection even though I could see it in the CF admin.

Previously I had used the full path to the collection in my cfsearch (worked in CF6): cfsearch collection="C:\wwwroot\projectname\collectionname"

This fails in CF7. It appears you no longer need the full path - this works in CF7:

cfsearch collection="collectionname"

Verity and especially vspider don't appear to be used much in the CF Community. A post to cf-talk and to the Adobe forums several hours ago have only resulted in one response.

Busy! Here is a quick link dump:

Ray Camden's ColdFusion Security Checklist

Spell Checking (like Gmail)

Why We Like Flex

DHTML Timelines

Form Gallery - Builder

Speaking of forms - put the label on top of field

Nice review of Apollo - Macro... I mean Adobe's next big thing - think - Flash everywhere!

UML Tutorials - getting started with UML

Rob Rohan releases his Afae Eclipse Plugin for free!

This is interesting - Adobe is putting links on del.icio.us. Right now it appears to be centered around the design tools - Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash - hopefully Flex and ColdFusion will get added.

Some GREAT Subclipse tips here - the Team -> Synchronize view and the ability to show incoming/outgoing changes rocks!

Fascinating article about Walmart data mining... I was in Walmart yesterday and was standing near the front and it's amazing to actually listen to the cash registers beep - every beep = transaction.

Two articles regarding using HTML/CSS in email.

CF + Flex = RAD

Nice Online CSS Reference tool

Google, Microsoft and Adobe - The battle for the new operating system
More on the same topic but a bit more in depth

Picture cloud

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.