Thoughts from the mountains

Today, I was trying to use the cfmap tag in a site with a table based layout. The table that contains the content uses the cellspacing atttribute to create margins around the content. After placing the cfmap tag inside of a table cell, all subsequent data cells no longer contained the cellpading. I created a very simple example that recreates the issue.

I had been waiting for the update to Android 2.1 on my Motorola Droid since the rumors started to fly. Maybe a week ago I found my phone in the morning with the OTA (over the air) message announcing my upgrade to Anroid 2.1. I quickly read the screen and then pressed the update button. Nothing, hmmm, another press of the update button, ... nothing. I frantically pressed the update button and then realized it was not going to work. I then pressed the more info button and POOF, the ota message disappeared and left me looking at the home screen.

I've wanted to setup a blog to store recipes to share with friends and family for a long time and recently found the motivation to get it done. I wanted a light color theme for this blog, so I ported the Fresh Pick theme from styleshout.com over to Mango. If anyone wants to use the theme with their Mango Blog it can be downloaded from my projects page or here.

While reading the article titled, "Lessons from a lost decade: Developing for a disposable Web", I noticed the mention of ColdFusion at the end of the second paragraph. I found the article to be interesting and made valid points, but again I'm sad to see ColdFusion portrayed as a defunct language in the main stream tech media. Am I defensive or do others feel the same way?

For the last year or so, I had been using cfhttp and rssatom.cfc to read and parse rss feeds so that I could display the content on a site running on ColdFusion 7. I recently upgraded the server to ColdFusion 9, but shortly afterward started to receive the error, "An error occurred while Parsing an XML document. Content is not allowed in prolog". The error was not consistent, but occurred twenty to thirty times a day. I figured it was a good time to move to the more current cffeed tag that became available in ColdFusion 8 and see if it would resolve the issue.