Thoughts from the mountains

When the ColdFusion 9.0.1 upgrade was released, I noticed a few blog and forum posts mentioning issues. I also noticed many people reporting no problems at all, so I decided to wait for a little while. It seems that the comments and talked died down over the last week so I decided to take the plunge today. The new feature of setting cfid, cftoken, and jsessionid as httponly is something I need so, that pushed me to take a chance.

InfoWorld published an article today titled, "Top five scripting languages on the JVM" and I thought some might be interested in taking a look. They mention ColdFusion near the beginning, though they call it Cold Fusion, but state that the article only is going to discuss free, open source languages. It would have been nice if they would have included Railo in their comparison. Oh well...

Taking a look at the Google Font Api and the Google Font Directory has been on my to do list for some time now. I took the time the other night to play around with the fonts a little on one of my projects. The font directory is an interesting idea and I'm curious to see if the project grows quickly. I liked a several of the current fonts in the directory though found them to look a little aliased in certain browsers.

For times when you would like to remove select options based on the selected option in a different select, jQuery allows a simple option. In my example, I have a select control that the user uses to select their country and then an additional select control for selecting membership types. The membership types are based on on different groups of countries, so it is situation where you will want to remove the options that do not apply to the selected country value.

While upgrading my Mango blog installations this evening to the new 1.5 version I ran into a minor stumbling block. The first installation ran perfectly from the administrator, but the other instance would not show me the option to upgrade to the 1.5 version. After scratching my chin for a few minutes, I remembered that the default administrator role does not have "manage system" permissions by default. After adding enabling the missing permission I was able to install the updates, which I had a few to do.