http://www.bostoncfug.org/index.cfm?event=showMeeting&meetingID=CA04FA80-D61B-FA8C-8A343B03A53B5745

For those of you in the Boston area, we'd love to see you at the meetings. We've got some great ones lined up in the near future!

After noticing a little animation in the very-grayed-out background, I clicked to see if anything would happen. It turns out that there are three adjacent mini-worlds, each with its own short puzzle for you to solve, which lead to one easter egg apiece. They're pretty fun. Follow the link above to MAX if you want to see for yourself, or read more if you want to know the easter eggs that I found.

Now if you click-and-drag those icons from the right side of the Dock to the left side, they'll stay there permanently (note the Internet Explorer and Homesite+ icons):

And whenever you click on these icons, VMWare will start up and bring up the application for you-- in Unity mode! It's just like... no, it really is having your favorite Windows apps available to you just like any other MacOS app. Awesomeness, no extra charge.

In your speech after the South Dakota primary tonight you asked for suggestions from the public on what to do about your campaign. Here is my response to your call for advice.

You insulted the American public by not acknowledging his historic victory when he became the first minority nominee. You chose to sacrifice the strength of the Democratic Party in order to guard your pride and your political leverage. If you continue to do so, you will only damage and diminish your own reputation.

Suspend your campaign.

But someone from the end of my row in the audience told me to speak to him after the session was over, and he told me about Syncro SVN. It has everything you could want in a client-- an integrated view of your repositories, working directories, a great diff viewer, and session log. Plus, it has all of the features you might want, such as the ability to relocate working directories between repositories. If you're not satisfied with other Subversion clients on the Macintosh, I'd suggest you give Syncro SVN a look.

On HGTV's web site, a Flash ad showed up for Sears showing a static picture of some guy dressed up as a dandelion. Beneath him there's a button requesting that you "Roll over the weed". If you do, that's when the commercial gets hilarious.

Be sure to make it to the next meeting, when yours truly will be presenting on version-tracking your code with Subversion. I'll be raffling off a free copy of Subversion. ;)

P.S. So that no one misses the joke, then shows up expecting a chance at free software and gets angry at me: I'm kidding. Subversion is already a free download.

• The quoted-printable parsing for text and html body parts has been corrected. When you use EmailParse.CFC to forward an email, you can't tell CF that a mailpart is encoded with quoted-printable or Base-64. So, these mailparts need to be converted back to text in order to forward them correctly.
  
  
• The parsing mechanism has been updated so that the values of the "Received" header, which often is often repeated several times in one email head, are aggregated in one property of the component. Previously, each instance of the Received header would overwrite the previous one, leaving only the last one for you to work with once the parsing was done.

You can read more about my email-parsing code for ColdFusion in the EmailParse.CFC Project area.

Because the Updater has a .zip extension, I took it for a zip file. Without any other direction from Adobe, that seems like a reasonable course of action to me. But when you try to unzip the updater, you get errors. The solution is pretty simple: just download the updater file, change its extension from .sh to .bin, make it executable, and then call it directly:

# wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/coldfusion/updates/801/coldfusion-801-lin_updater.zip
# mv coldfusion-801-lin_updater.zip coldfusion-801-lin_updater.bin
# chmod 755 coldfusion-801-lin_updater.bin
# ./coldfusion-801-lin_updater.bin

That will start the Updater quite nicely. Oh, and one other thing-- when the Updater finished and I went to view my site, I got a 500 error from the webserver. A simple stop-and-start of the coldfusion_8 service did the trick:

# service coldfusion_8 stop
Stopping ColdFusion 8, please wait
Stopping coldfusion server..stopped
ColdFusion 8 has been stopped
# service coldfusion_8 start
Starting ColdFusion 8...
The ColdFusion 8 server is starting up and will be available shortly.
======================================================================
ColdFusion 8 has been started.
ColdFusion 8 will write logs to /opt/coldfusion8/logs/cfserver.log
======================================================================
#

[root@elmcedar src]# unzip coldfusion-801-lin_updater.zip
Archive:  coldfusion-801-lin_updater.zip
warning [coldfusion-801-lin_updater.zip]:  69730304 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
 extracting: Z_/installers/LiveCycleDataservice/flex-for-cf.zip  
 extracting: Z_/installers/JNBridge/JNBridge.jar  
   ...

When I download the same file to a Windows machine, I'm told that the archive is corrupt and I don't see any files. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem, or has anyone else successfully unzipped and installed the Updater for Linux?