I have created a new CFQuickDocs Firefox search plugin. If you were using the old one (that seems to be broken now), you should give the new one a try. For the record, I didn't make the old one. Anyway, head on over to CFQuickDocs and look for the installation link near the bottom of the page. Let me know if you run into any problems!

Update: When I made the search plugin, I kept reading about things that only worked in Firefox, and I avoided those things. So today I decided to try installing the search plugin with IE 7, and guess what? It works! I wonder if it works in any of the other browsers...

I posted a story to Digg about yesterday's release of Open BD. I think we should try to get this news in front of the general web programming community, because a lot of them turn their nose up at ColdFusion because it's not open source. Please go digg this story. That's all, folks.

I have been ignoring CFQuickDocs for a few months, but I finally got around to some requested updates. I fixed a bug in the CF 7 cffile, cfloop, and other doc pages that had multiple sub pages. Also, Charlie Arehart suggested a couple of changes that I implemented:

• CFQuickDocs now remembers the docs version (CF 7 or CF 8) that you were last viewing, and loads that version up the next time you visit the site
• When you are viewing a doc page, say cfqueryparam for example, if you click on the other doc version link (to switch to CF 7 from CF 8, for example), CFQD will now load up the last doc page you were looking at, or cfqueryparam in our example.

Thanks for using the site, and thanks for your patience if you had asked for updates and I hadn't gotten around to them yet.

A lot of my ColdFusion and PHP developer friends like to tell me that I should become a Flex developer. I have various reasons why I haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, but here's one of the biggest reasons:

Enough said.

So I just read an article at cnet that gives more evidence that Microsoft doesn't really care about end users. Apparently, Microsoft deliberatly wanted to annoy their users with User Account Control (UAC), according David Cross, the Microsoft manager that was in charge of UAC during Vista's development. "The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users--I'm serious," said Cross.

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I have watched the emergence of Microsoft Silverlight with mixed feelings. On one hand, I am not a Microsoft fan, so I typically like to see other companies succeed in markets where Microsoft is a player. Therefore, I like the fact that Flash is the dominant player in the RIA market that Microsoft is attempting to enter. On the other hand, I like competition, and since Adobe enjoys a virtual monopoly with Flash, I'm kind of glad to see Microsoft throwing their weight behind a potential competitor to Flash. Up to today, though, I have always been a bystander in this game as I have never done anything with Silverlight, not even install the plugin.

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I was setting up my dev environment again on my laptop (really, starting over and redoing things...long story). Anyway, I like to use Apache with ColdFusion locally, and then setup named virtual hosts for all of my projects, like this:

http://localhost/
http://cfquickdocs/
http://blog/

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I was very surprised to find out that ColdFusion's CFPOP tag does not support POP3 SSL. ColdFusion is over 10 years old now...you've got to add that in, Adobe!

Anyway, I did some digging around, and thanks to a comment on another blog by Darin Tyler, I found an easy fix. You can use some simple Java commands to "force" cfpop to use SSL. In my testing, I used Gmail, and the code is below:

I'm using ColdFusion 8's new WYSIWYG editor (based on FCKEditor) in a project, and I really wanted to remove the collapse button from the toolbar. Here's what I'm talking about (the thin bar with the up arrow):

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Say you want to have a "unselect all" button for a select list, how would the JavaScript work? I just spent too long trying to figure out how to do this in IE. As usual, I got it to work in Firefox right away, but IE doesn't work the same way.

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