Upon migrating from ColdBox 2.52 over to ColdBox 2.6 I was caught out by a subtle but show stopping issue. Unfortunately the error thrown is not very precise as to the details of the error is or what exactly has triggered it.
I have recently re-programmed one of my sites to use the ColdFusion ColdBox framework combined with Transfer ORM, Object Relational Mapping. While these two tools are tremendous for creating code in, making repetitive and time consuming tasks a breeze.
The other week I was reading Ben’s Kinky Solution for removing high characters in ColdFusion strings. It’s an unfortunate fact that ColdFusion’s own tags do not work very well with the conversion of ASCII high characters. So with this in mind and inspired by the conversation in Ben’s post I decided to create a simple solution that was not dependent on external Java objects.
In my last post I spoke about the benefits of using a Microsoft tool known as Robocopy for large file transfers, backing up and synchronisation. Well for those who are not comfortable with using a command line interface program or those that simply prefer the convenience of using a GUI. Well Microsoft has released an alternative, though less feature rich, free PowerToy known as SyncToy.
When it comes to copying large amounts or large in size files and directories many people don’t realise there are better tools for the job then the built in File Explorer used by Windows. Robocopy is a free command line application created by Microsoft that is perfect for copying large or even huge amounts of data between hard drives or over networks.
Today for some particular reason my version of Microsoft Vista had forgotten what to do with .msu files. MSU is a file extension used by Microsoft to package operating system updates that are not tied in with Windows Update.
