Web Trenches

Story done by Hamilton College on our latest mobile Web project using both jQuery Mobile and CSS media queries:

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/hamilton-offers-fast-access-with-new-mobile-friendly-app

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I recently had to come up with a solution for Word-to-PDF file conversions on a server that was running Railo.  After much searching and combining of various articles that I read, I decided to put together a simple CFC to make this easier for others (and reusable for me).  This CFC will convert any document format that can be opened with OpenOffice (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint) to PDF format.

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After applying the 1.6 update to Mango Blog, my blog immediately stopped working.  Even after modifying some code to get around the error, all extensions were broken and the captcha disappeared - allowing spammers to take over.  The answer was out there in the Mango forum, but it took me a while to find it.  I thought I'd spread the word for other Mango users.

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By default, ColdFusion does not store data as UTF-8 into SQL Server.  This is a problem for Chinese characters sets, as well as many others.

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All of the programming that comes with the Uploadify plug-in for jQuery is done in PHP.  I've converted the new checkScript feature to use ColdFusion instead. 

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