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Today I ran across the first instance in which I needed to pass a comma delimited list to a Data Access Object to use as query criteria. As these items were in a list, the DAO needed to convert the list to a quoted value list before passing it off to the query object. Usually in this case I would use QuotedValueList, which I use quite often, but since I was passing a string to the DAO and not a query object, this function would not work in this case. However, ListQualify() did the trick.
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IBM and Sun are slated to start talking about the merits of creating an official open source version of Java. Personally, I think if Sun plans to not be buried by .NET in the next few years, they really need to do this.

Finally! It’s reported that Qwest will soon be offering DSL service without requiring a normal phone line.
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Google has ranked my CU Rape Allegation rant or whatever you want to call it pretty highly, so suddenly my site is seeing about twice the amount of traffic per day as it normally sees. The day before yesterday, I had over 370 unique visitors in fact.

If you’re looking for more information about Gary Barnett, Katie Hnida, or Dr. Dave Hnida, perhaps I’ll add some information to that article since it seems like so many people are interested. Feel free to express your own opinions on the matter as well! It was just an observation of mine after hearing about it all day and night on various talk radio shows.

I finally find myself writing a decent amount of XHTML and CSS again for the first time at work in at least 2-3 years for a web application I’m working on. Hard to believe I’m actually away from writing webservices, XML Gateways, frameworks, DAO’s, and other such things for a couple of days. I was not looking forward to the age old problem of having to enter in data each time I want to test a form, messing with auto-complete, etc., and I came across this plug-in for Firefox and Mozilla to help me avoid repeating those pains again.
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Seems like this question comes-up quite a bit, and I can never seem to find the snippet of code which will do this in CF 5, so I thought I’d leave myself a post of this snippet of code, and perhaps someone else out there in the future trying to find information on how to reset their administrator password. That said, here are a few ways to get back into the CF Administrator if you’ve somehow been inadvertently locked-out for both ColdFusion 5 and previous versions, as well as ColdFusion MX:
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The first exploit has been released based on the bit of code which was leaked onto the internet.

It is reported that a remote user can create a specially crafted bitmap file that, when loaded by IE, will trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code.

The author states that this flaw was found by reviewing the recently leaked Microsoft Windows source code. The flaw reportedly resides in ‘win2k/private/inet/mshtml/src/site/download/imgbmp.cxx’.

The report indicates that IE 5 is affected but that IE 6 is not affected.

That didn’t take long! I’m sure this is just the first of a series of exploits which will be released in the weeks to come.

Jake pointed me towards a blog post about Python coming to Nokia Phones as I’ve been “riding the snake” for a few months now.

Yesterday’s keynote by Nokia CTO Pertti Korhonen at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference confirmed that we would be seeing Python rolling on Series 60 handsets (specifically the 6600 and family) via Forum Nokia.

It doesn’t even appear be vaporware as there are screen shots of the Python interpreter running on the phone. I can’t say I’ve really done any programming on embedded devices such as smart phones, but nonetheless, that’s pretty exciting.

Christian Cantrell pointed-out that my site was coming up blank in Apple Safari, and unfortunately I do not have an OSX box of my own, so how was I to figure out what was happening? After a bit of digging, I came across iCapture, which essentially accept’s URL’s, opens them in a Safari browser, does a screen capture of your site within Safari, and posts it back to the iCapture site so that you can view/download the screen shot. Very, very cool, and certainly handy.

I’m pretty sure the pages which my site came-up blank in were limited to the pages which I added over the weekend. Anyhow, if you come across any other major browser errata, please let me know!

Well, I’ve decided that Viva Burrito is definitely the goods. I’ve had quite a few different entrees from there now, and they are all pretty good, especially for the money.
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