Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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2011

What does the ANT message - 'Files was unexpected at this time' mean?

If you run an ANT installation and see the error message:

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1Files was unexpected at this time.

Or something similar you have probably installed ANT into a directory with a space in it. The default path when installing is "c:\program files\ant", but it's a lot more useful to install it into a more base directory, such as "c:\ant".

You cannot set your ANT_HOME to a directory with spaces or special characters in it, unless you use a windows compatibly format, such as:

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1ANT_HOME=c:\progra~1\ant

05
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2011

JQuery scrolling within a Div

Ever wanted to have your page content scroll based on user interaction? In this article I'll show you how to create a simple JQuery scrollable area that will allow users to click on 'next' style links to view more information. I put this together as most of the JQuery scrolling articles out there deal with scrolling the entire page, but I just want to scroll inside a defined div element.

There is a demo of this here: JQuery scrolling within a Div

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2011

QRcfc released on RIAforge.org

I've released the first version of a ColdFusion QR barcode generator on http://qrcfc.riaforge.org/.

It is a CFC based wrapper for the Google ZXing barcode Java library http://code.google.com/p/zxing/.

There is a demo here: ColdFusion QR barcode generator

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2011

Using ColdFusion to see Java server values

I've been dabbling in more and more Java recently as an accompaniment to my using ColdFusion development, and I've been finding more and more places where they support each other.

I rolled out a new Application to a live server (this one) and it failed to launch. This was all down to it running an incompatible JVM. So how do you tell what JVM version your server is running? I don't have direct access to this box, so I needed to do it in code.

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