I've been playing around with CFMX 7's CFCHART tag quite a bit lately. I've been trying to decide if I can get it to do all the things I want it to do. While it's certainly a nice tag, there are certain aspects of the tag I don't like. Fortunately, with some work you can customize the CFCHART functionality quite a bit. You can even design your own style sheets for use with the WebCharts3D engine that Macromedia licensed for use with CFXM 7.
The biggest obstacle is that Macromedia hasn't done a great job describing how to use the WebCharts3D designer and how those features map up to the internal CFMX syntax. There are a lot of differences in nomenclature between the two, and this makes it a bit of a pain to try to map what attributes of the CFCHART series of tags map up to the internal WebCharts3D XML style sheet.
After playing around with CFCHART for a few days, I found the best way to really learn the capabilities of what you can do w/CFCHART was to use the WebCharts3D v5.0 Enterprise Edition designer. In your CFusionMX7\charting folder you'll find a batch file called "webcharts.bat" Run this file to load the WebCharts3D designer.
Looking for help building Regular Expressions? The Regex Coach looks like a very promising tool for doing just that. The program is designed to specifically mimic the Perl RegEx Engine, but it should be helpful for other languages as well (like Java, Python, PHP, etc) that use Perl-like syntax. I came across this useful looking tool in a message that came across CF-Talk recently.
For all of you running Firefox, you really should upgrade your version immediately. The Washington Post has reported a severe security hole that can allow a malicious hacker to take control of your PC.
Upgrade to Firefox v1.07 now by downloading it from the Firefox Product page.
My boss wanted to make sure that on one of our servers we were updating our Symantec Anti-Virus definitions on an hourly basis. By default the Symantec Anti-Virus Client will only allow you to do a LiveUpdate once per day. Fortunately, there's a command line tool called VPDN_LU.exe which you can run to do silent updates.
Here are the command line options for the VPDN_LU.exe tool: