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Apr 11 2008

Now Mango Powered

Posted by Russell Brown at 7:15 AM
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- Categories: Development | General News | Mango Blog

Following in the footsteps and recomendation of Andrew Powell I've started to use Mango Blog (I even stole the title from his blog). Months ago I started having some odd issues with my HostMySite account and MachBlog. It worked fine until they upgraded my server and then all of a sudden nothing using ColdSpring would init correctly. I don't really have a good reason for not trying MachBlog again other than for the reason that I get bored and like to try new things a lot.

But now I'm back blogging and slowly [manually] migrating over old posts, but unfortunetly I've lost almost all my relevent ColdFusion/Flex/AJAX content.

I have run into multiple NULL Pointer errors with Mango Blog so far, and will in the future start to document them but usualy a reload of the page clears the problem right up. The interface is certainly nice and clean and looks more polished than my previous experiences with other CF blog packages; so KUDOS to the developer(s).

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Russell Brown

Russell Brown wrote on 04/15/08 11:46 AM

Turns out all of my java.lang.NullPointerException   errors were due to the MYSQL ColdFusion DSN. Due to an issue with the MySQL 4/5 driver you have to have turned off "maintain connections across client requests".

Apparently HostMySite.com did not have this setup correctly to begin with as I think they should have, but they were very quick to fix the issue.
Laura

Laura wrote on 04/24/08 6:07 PM

Hi Russell,
I am glad you found the solution, because I was clueless about what the problem was.

I hope you enjoy using Mango!

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