Application.cfc-set mappings don't work in onApplicationEnd()
G'day:Well this was not what I was intending to be looking at this evening, but I made the mistake of looking at StackOverflow and didn't understand what I was reading about mappings and onSessionEnd...
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G'day:It's been a quiet week on the blog front this week sorry... this is down to it being a pretty busy week in general for me. Nothing exciting... just too much work, so little motivation to spend...
View ArticleDo we know if ColdFusion 10 update 4 actually does fix these...
G'dayI'm still too busy with other stuff to write an article with any meat on it, I'm afraid. Although that one about rationalising the useage of trailing slashes kept at least me amused for a coupla...
View ArticlePlug: Learn ColdFusion in a Week
G'day:Every man and his dog have mentioned the new resource that was launched within the last week: learncfinaweek.com. Except me. Well I'm remedying that now.First things first: right from when I...
View ArticleNudge: CFScript enhancements in ColdFusion 11 survey
G'day:This is just a brief nudge. A coupla weeks back I wrote an article asking where any focus on improving CFScript's coverage of CFML tags should be applied for ColdFusion 11, and this contained a...
View ArticleCustom tags: nesting
G'day:I meant to write this one ages and ages ago, back when I did the previous article on looping with custom tags. As I said in that one, I think custom tags are a great concept, but have been a bit...
View Article"Too-hard basket"
G'day:Update:This survey is now complete. The results can be found here.Yesterday I nudged my readers about the survey I'm doing about CFScript improvements in CF11. I had some feedback overnight from...
View ArticleSlashes are not more important than people
First things firstCFHour is asking people to donate money for the relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy.To encourage people to donate, they are running a competition to win a copy of ColdFusion Builder....
View ArticleSean said that Nick said that Fusion Authority said...
G'daySean Corfield's written an interesting article entitled "CFML - Too Little, Too late?". I recommend you read it. It's not earthshattering and not saying anything that hasn't been said before, but...
View ArticleColdFusion 10 Update 5: mostly smooth
G'day:Here's my experience with the new ColdFusion 10 update 5 which was released half an hour or so ago.I've got four CF10 instances running:The baseline CFUSION one that is the default-installed one....
View ArticleProposal for a ColdFusion "express installer"
G'day:Yesterday I commented on a coupla blog articles about "how to fix ColdFusion", or more to the point, how to apply CPR to it, get it back up and running, and winning races.Digression:Look, I'm not...
View ArticleUpdate to this blog's communication policy
G'day:This blog has a communications policy, a link to which is always over on the right-hand-side there.I've just added this to it:Update: I'm fed-up with inane "my favourite platform is better than...
View ArticleCFLib.org needs your UDFs
G'day: I assume you all now what CFlib.org is, but in case not, it summarises itself thus:The purpose of the Common Function Library Project (CFLib.org) is to create a set of user-defined function...
View ArticleThoughts on "Coldfusion and the law of dialectics of progress" by Stofke on...
G'day:This is another article that started as a comment on someone else's blog, but it got too long, so I figured I'd clutter up my own blog rather than theirs."Stofke on wheels" has written an...
View ArticleColdFusion 10 hosting, anyone?
G'day:In the course of doing this blog and writing example code for it, or knocking together small applications to help myself and possibly other people, I need a small amount of code to be hosted in a...
View ArticleFinal Call for survey participation
G'day:Hey, I've decided to start collating the results of the survey I've been running on where the priority ought to go in porting the remaining non-CFScript-ready CFML functionality to...
View ArticleStack Overflow is populated by @rseholes (#1 of what could end up being a...
G'dayRANT ALERT! (and language some people will find unpleasant). Since I started this blog, I've had a link over on the right-hand side of the page encouraging people to help out other ColdFusion...
View ArticleWhat you see is not necessarily what you get
G'dayThis is another case of me not having enough space on Stack Overflow to articulate myself properly, so I'm creating a blog article and will cross reference my answer to here. With enough of a...
View ArticleWhat's up with OpenBD?
G'dayThis is just a quick one.I found myself - yet again - typing into one of my articles (an update to yesterday's one which discussed CFML's date datatypes) something to this effect "but the code...
View ArticleSurvey Results: where to focus Adobe's efforts to improve CFML's CFScript...
G'day:Thanks to a coupla people fwding my Twitter status updates asking for participation, and I guess repeated nagging from myself; on Friday last week I finally hit my target of 50 responses. I've...
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