Thoughts from the mountains

I made a few corrections to my Higher Ground Mango theme tonight. I forgot the pagination links to older and newer posts at the bottom of the index.cfm and also added the <mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" /> tag at the end of the post content to allow for the viewCount plugin by Paul klinkenberg to work correctly. If you are interested in trying out the theme go to my projects page to download it.

My post tonight is rather elementary, but it took me long enough to figure it out that I thought that making this post might save someone else some precious time. My ftp server on one of my servers requires an "active" connection opposed to a "passive" connection. When setting up the ftp connection in ColdFusion Builder I always seem to forget to change that option as it is under the advanced settings. Once you confirm your ftp settings, it was difficult for me at least, to find where in ColdFusion Builder to make changes to the existing settings.

Today I experienced the following error, "Unable to Load Library Null" from a custom tag that was in use on a site that I was moving from CF7 to CF9. The custom tag, CFX_Check_Email, was working fine on my CF7 server, but was producing errors on my new CF9 server running IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008. The custom tag did run fine on my development machine with Windows XP and CF9, so I was a little confused as to why I was getting the error on my new server.

I'm currently moving a site from MySQL 4 and ColdFusion 7 on IIS 6 to MySQL 5 and ColdFusion 9 on IIS 7. One of the first problems that I noticed was the following error on one of my database driven templates:

Cannot convert value ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00? from column X to TIMESTAMP.

When I went to upload photos to my photography website this afternoon I noticed that the FCKEditor that I use in my site was no longer displaying but instead a basic textarea was shown. For those not familiar with FCKEditor it is a rich text editor plugin that allows for a WYSIWYG html editor in websites. As I just installed Firefox 3.6 the day before, I determined that there must be some type of conflict so I headed off to google to see what the deal was.