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Most know by now there are all kinds of great new features included in ASP.NET 2.0. Some of my favorites are: Intellisense everywhere, Master Pages, html code preservation, IIS-less development. Another one is this new security model. There’s a built in admin feature that lets you manage a lot of the stuff [...]

I found a very nice way to use CFMX’s asynchronous event gateways. I’m working on an import tool of sorts that spiders a site and generates a Google sitemap XML document. Once the sitemap is generated, all the URLs are requested one by one and then parsed for the various content we need. [...]

This was just announced on the Spring Framework home page:

ANNOUNCEMENT: A preview of the Spring.Web functionality is now available for easy download as a Spring 1.1 Preview Release.
This release contains the following Spring.Web functionality
* Dependency Injection for ASP.NET web pages and controls
* Bi-directional data binding between [...]

For some reason CF doesn’t like the xmlns attribute in the root node of an XML document. If you attempt to use a valid XPath statement in the xmlSearch function the array that’s returned will be empty. Strip it out like so:

<cfset myXMLDoc = xmlParse(myXMLDoc)/>
<cfset myXMLDoc = reReplaceNoCase(myXMLDoc,'xmlns=".*?"',"","all")/>

Just another one of those, “who’s [...]