Quickly detecting if a Verity collection exists in CFMX
I ran into some problems with some code recently that had been written for pre-ColdFusion MX 7. The code in question was designed to create a Verity collection if it didn't already exist.
In past versions of ColdFusion, if you invoked the <cfcollection action="create" /> tag on a collection that already existed, you simply use a cftry/cfcatch to skip doing an error. So, the developer before me had been writing lines of code like this:
<cfcollection action="create" collection="MyCatalog" path="#someDirectory#" />
<cfcatch type="any"></cfcatch>
</cftry>
Phillips MiraVision TV - Part TV, Part Mirror
Phillips has a new line of televisions they call MiraVision TVs. The basically idea is that, when turned off, the televisions act like a mirror. This is actually a really cool idea. It allows you to completely disguise your television when it's turned off. Would look real nice in a living room.
Could "Mystic" be CFMX 7.5?
This has hit some blogs, but I haven't seen it widely mentioned. Damon Cooper posted a vague entry about "Mystic"—which appears to be a version of ColdFusion targetted to be released. before "Scorpio" (which was thought to be the next version of CF—potentially v8.)
There hasn't been a whole lot of gossip about the new version of ColdFusion in the last few months—mostly I suspect because of the Adobe/Macromedia merger. Anyway, hopefully we'll start hearing more news now that the merger is complete.
Thunderbird-Tray v1.2 - Systray Launcher for Thunderbird
With the release of Thunderbird v1.5, I also found that I needed to update my version of Thunderbird-Tray from v1.1 to v1.2.
TB-Tray is a launcher for Thunderbird, which stays in memory and will "hide" Thunderbird to the systray instead of the taskbar. It actually has a lot of configurable options for a launcher. I've been using it in one form or another for almost a year. I really hate having my E-mail client show up in the taskbar. It's one of those applications that I almost always leave running and just don't see a need for it eating up a spot on my taskbar.
If you use Thunderbird, I'd highly recommend this application.
Thunderbird v1.5 Released!
Thunderbird v1.5 was released today. I use Thunderbird for my day job and have been anxiously awaiting the next release. Here's a break down of some of the new features from the Mozilla website:
Here's what's new in Thunderbird 1.5:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
- Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient.
- Spell check as you type.
- Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts.
- Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
- Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
- Deleting attachments from messages.
- Integration with server side spam filtering.
- Reply and forward actions for message filters.
- Kerberos Authentication.
- Auto save as draft for mail composition.
- Message aging.
- Filters for Global Inbox.
- Improvements to product usability including redesigned options interface, and SMTP server management.
- Many security enhancements.
The Rumbling Edge has more detailed lists of new features and notable bug fixes.