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 in the rewrite rule so that it would ignore the Mach II Dashboard.  So, all that we added to our config file was:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/MachIIDashboard$

…and voila.  Everything is now working.

Hopefully this can help someone and save them some time.

Will Google be forced to ban its own browser from its index?

“you have an error in some javascript somewhere in some file”

Wow…thanks!  That was very helpful.

Here was the problem.  We are accessing some code from another domain as we are in a transition from one version of the application to another.  Because we have changed everything from the ground up the migration required that we move slowly and not just flip the switch.  Therefore we are using jQuery and jsonp to access some code from our new system in the old system.  We have one function where you set a market and we use jQuery’s dialog() function to popup a window which then pulls in the jsonp file to populate the country, state and city dropdowns.  It worked great.  It was fast and did everything that we needed it to do (after I figured out how to make jQuery and jsonp play nice)…..in Firefox.  Once I pulled it up in IE it did nothing and threw a random error, script1002: syntax error, which did nothing for me.  It referenced some line number that was blank and didn’t really tell me anything about the error.  So, I jumped in and started commenting OUT code to figure out where the problem was.  After a couple of hours…here is what I found out.

Dont use ‘<!–    –>’ in your javascript

I guess that I missed a memo or something because I thought that properly formatted javascript looked like this:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
#CODE_HERE#
–>
</script>

well, if you have that opening and closing brackets…it breaks.  Oh well, at least it only took a couple of hours.

Hope this helps someone before they waste two hours like I did.

When you are using getJson() or ajax() all that you need to do is add the following:

callback=?

to the url and jQuery will automatically add a callback variable to the url in place of the ‘?’.  Then you need to use that function in your json declaration file to create the jsonp format.

For example, if you have a json file like:

[{"value":"1","label":"One"},{"value":"2","label":"Two"}]

You would want to create a function using the callback variable that was passed in the url.  In Coldfusion it would look like:

#callback#([{"value":"1","label":"One"},{"value":"2","label":"Two"}]);

jQuery will then read in the response and parse it as normal json.  Now you can access your json files across domains.

Easy huh?  Hopefully this helps someone.

<pre>Response was undefined</pre>

I initially tried to see if the variable was empty and that didn’t work.  I stumbled upon this gem the typeof operator and this was magic.  Now I can check to see if the response variable is an object and then run my callback function.  If it is not an object I do nothing.  Nice!

After a few trips I decided to give it a try on my Jeep. It works fantastic. If you are trying to find a rack for your Jeep…don’t bother. If you have a case for your board, toss it on top of the Jeep, run to straps across the top and then run one strap through the front handle and around the bumper. This is magic. It is solid and I have not looked back since. I spent quite a bit of time looking around the web for a Jeep roof rack and they ranged in price from moderate to ..what???

SAVE YOUR MONEY! Photos below. If you have any questions, let me know. I’ll see what I can do to help.

Have you seen this guy fight?

I haven’t yet but I will be watching this season for sure!

Well, a very wise man, Chuck Wade, found the solution and of course it was very easy.

1. Login to your account and click on the ‘Account settings’ link at the top right under your email (click on your email address to show the options).

2. Under Personal Settings you will see Multiple Sign-in. If it is Off click on ‘Edit’

3. Select the ‘On’ radio button and check the boxes next to the policies then ‘Save’

Done! Thanks Chuck.

For some reason when I upgraded to Lion my permissions really got fouled up. It wreaked havoc on Tower and has been a real pain in the arse.

So, what happened? Well, if you look at the permissions for just about any file it has the following:

kwfricke (me) : read & write
everyone: read

That is all good. The problem is that there is an additional ‘everyone’ with the permissions of custom. So my permissions in >info look like this:

everyone: custom
kwfricke: read & write
everyone: read

Because the everyone=custom comes before kwfricke it take precendence. So, WTF?

After looking around the web I found that Lion (actually it was sooner but Lion is really using it now) introduced a new type of permission called Active Control Lists (ACL). These are in additional to the standard Owner/Group/User roles that unix gives us. I’m sure there is a lot to learn about these and that they are great but for now I just want them removed so that I don’t have to manually update the permissions on a file whenever I want to save it.

You can remove these ACL permissions from a directory by running the following in terminal:

How to get rid of the custom permissions for everyone:
sudo chmod -R -N [directory] where [directory] is the full path. This will fix you up and get you back in business.

First, launch Terminal.

To login to your server, type the following:

ssh [address] -l [login name]

You will then be prompted for your password and your in.