Category Archives: Programming
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Ping Using XML-RPC In ASP.NET
Many blogs have the ability to ping different ping-services, such as Ping-o-Matic, Feedburner and Technorati, whenever some content is created or updated.
By Mads Kristensen
March 16, 2010
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Clearing Your SnipEx Cache & CFLib SnipEx Update
While working on some bugs in the CFLib SnipEx server, Mark Drew sent me a great tip on how to clear the cache in CFEclipse. Right now it is a manual process, but Mark will be adding a refresh option to the UI soon. So to clear your SnipEx cache, …
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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CFFEED Bug To Watch Out For
I’ve blogged before about how xmlFormat() is a bit buggy. While it will remove most characters, including “high ascii” characters in the range of 128-255, it will gleefully ignore other high ascii characters, for example, character 8220 which is the funky Microsoft Word quote. Unfortunately it looks like the same …
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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Have You Validated Your Feed Recently?
When is the last time you stopped to think about the health of your feed? Maybe it’s time to head over to the Feed Validator and ensure it’s in peek performance.
By Thomas McMahon
March 16, 2010
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Using Sitemaps And Verity
Not many people know that ColdFusion ships with a HTTP spider that integrates with Verity. Unfortunately, this spider will only work with localhost as a server. This means if you want to spider multiple sites, you can’t. Well, not without playing with your host headers. (More information on the Verity …
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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Caching CFCONTENT
A few days ago I blogged about a code review I was doing for another client. Yesterday I found another interesting bug in their code. (It is always easier to find bugs in other people’s code.)
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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When Is XML Not XML?
Here is a mystery for folks. I’ve updated my parsing engine for coldfusionbloggers.org. I’m using CFHTTP now so I can check Etag type stuff. I take the result text and save it to a file to be parsed by CFFEED. But before I do that I check to ensure it’s …
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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Google Sitemaps and Competitive Intelligence
I’m a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or …
By Michael Gray
March 16, 2010
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XmlException: Data At The Root Level Is Invalid
A few days ago I needed to write some functionality to fetch an XML document from a URL and load it into an XmlDocument. As always I use the WebClient to retrieve simple documents over HTTP and it looked like this: using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) { string xml …
By Mads Kristensen
March 16, 2010
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Trusting Hacking crossdomain.xml Files
What other sites do flash and other web 2.0 components trust, by Google search or Google hacking the crossdomain xml file, you can find out some very interesting things about what sites are trusted by another site, and where API’s or other trusted widgets can come from, including advertising. The …
By Dan Morrill
March 16, 2010
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