Using Mach II Dashboard with Mod Rewrite

I had an issue where I was creating vanity URL's for an application.  The issue was that when we did this the Mach II Dashboard would no longer work.  Below is what we had in our Apache config file:

RewriteRule ^/([^/\.]+)$ /index.cfm?event=url&url_name=$1 [PT]

After a great deal of trial and error the solution (as usual) was very simple.  We just needed to create an exception ...

 
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Working with jQuery and jsonp

I was recently working on a project for a client and needed to use Jquery's getJson() function with Jsonp.  I had tried this in the past but kept getting 'parseerror' responses and could not really figure out what was going on.  I had pasted my json code into the json validator and it said that it was valid.  The documentation on Jquery's website was pretty sparse.   It took me a ...

 
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Coldfusion spinning after upgrading to Lion (osx 10.7)

So, being the habitual early adopter that I am, I decided to download the update to Lion yesterday morning. It was the first time since I switched to mac as my primary developer machine that I had tried to upgrade. Boy was it hard (not). I just downloaded the update from the app store and it did it's thing.

However, I noticed that there were some issues with some of ...

 
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