Now that we have finished with the crazy method of obtaining all the various tokens for accessing the Google API, let’s jump into our first Google Calendar API method. We will start by using the Google Calendar API to create a new calendar. This method is very straight forward. It’s just a matter of correctly [...]

SeeFusion 4.0.7 is now available for download at http://www.seefusion.com. Primarily, this update removes the need for the JDI debug settings that were required to produce stack traces with version of ColdFusion before 8, which ran on Java 1.4. (There is no change for ColdFusion 6/7, which still require JDI to gather stack traces under Java [...]

I swear this is a bug. It has to be a bug because it’s so ridiculous. If it’s not a bug, I hope someone can explain it. After you finish part 1 and part 2 of logging in using Google’s AuthSub. You’ll find it’s just not enough. Something really weird happens if you attempt to get [...]

Remember that “next” variable that we passed to google in my previous post? That’s the URL that google will send our users to after they go through the approval process on Google.com. They have to do two things, first login to Google.com, then either grant or deny your request to access their google data. If [...]

ColdFusion 8.0 added the ability to specify a “validation query” that will be run every time a connection is reused in a connection pool. This is useful in cases where database servers or firewalls sometimes drop connections without warning, as it causes a new connection to be made to the database server for the [...]

If you’re using ColdFusion to access BLOBs stored in a Sybase server, you may have a problem.  Apparently, Sybase severely limits the timeframe wherein you’re allowed to retrieve the actual binary data, which is supposed to be available until the end of the current transaction.  ColdFusion doesn’t pull the backing binary data immediately, and when [...]

The first step of the AuthSub proxy process is very simple. Which is good. It’ll ease you into using the Google API. Below is the first function in my GoogleAuthenticate.cfc file. I’ll publish the full file after I cover the individual functions. Feel free to build the CFC and follow along. Basically all you [...]

I just downloaded the latest extJS 2.0.1 zip file and unzipped it into a web folder. When I went to go look at the examples I got a “403 Forbidden” error from Apache. I figured it must have been some odd security setting on the files. So I compared the security settings on the files that [...]

I’ve become addicted to Google. The company does some truly wonderful things. Not perfect by any means, but wonderful. Lately I have been playing around quite a bit with the Google calendar API and the Google spreadsheet API. Also…logging into the API, which is important to understand. I’ve written a few CFCs to access all [...]

I’ve decided since I attempt to help people in #flex (on EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet) on a daily basis, that I’ll pick one simple question and try to whip up an example for everyone to see. Today, someone asked how to scale all children of a container. The basic answer is to just [...]