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I've been using ColdFusion since umm... 1996?, a long time anyway, so you'd think I'd know everything that there is to know about CF, its tags and functions. ;)

I jest, of course. There is always something new to learn that's exactly what I found out the other day.

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Its been a while since I posted anything to my blog.  I've been busy at work with a large site that's now launched, busy at home with the ever growing/changing son and I've not long been back from a 2 week break in Spain.

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Just trying to get sorted with posting to my MangoBlog with an external editor.
Tried ScribeFire, I could connect ok, but posting didn't want to work and there didn't seem to be an error.

Update: Ok, so that works.  Its nothing like as flexible as ScribeFire would be.  Time to do a little asking around I think.  If at first you don't succeed, cheat!  ;o)

Update 2 :  Trying out Deepest Sender....  Cool! That works too.

Update 3 : Looks like something has changed in ScribeFire to do with date formats.  Laura at ASFusion is aware of the problem and I haven't had a chance to look at it myself, so I'm currently using Deepest Sender. One thing to note with Deepest Sender; The category list is populated using the description rather than the category title, so make sure you've got something in the category description in Mango Blog admin.

I mentioned previously in my Scotch on the Rocks Reviews post that two of my colleagues did write-ups of their days and sessions at Scotch.

Well, here are those write-ups.

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I've been running Minefield (Firefox 3 beta) for a long time now with very little or no problems, so its not often that I switch back to Firefox 2, but its always handy to have that fall back.

I've heard people say and I've been asked a few times recently that they don't want to try FF3beta because they rely on Firefox 2 and don't want to break it or they are using the portable version because FF2 and FF3 won't run at the same time.

Well actually, neither of those are true. You can run FF2 and FF3 at the same time and you can stop them from breaking one another. What you have to do is use the command line arguments when starting Firefox or Minefield.  There's a small bit of jiggery-pokerery to start with but once thats done it runs without a problem.

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