Well done Adobe ColdFusion Team
G'day:Hopefully you've heard there's a patch out for ColdFusion 10 (now version 10.0.11) for the web sockets security hole that Henry Ho noticed a week or so ago. I did some investigation on the issue,...
View ArticleWeird issue with Mockbox and interfaces: issue identified
G'day:A coupla days back I wrote a vague article "Weird issue with Mockbox and interfaces", which detailed some weirdness I was seeing with using Mockbox to mock methods in CFCs which implement an...
View ArticleStand-alone repro case for that weird interface bug
G'day:This is a follow-up to the article from yesterday detailing some weirdness I was getting when using Mockbox to mock methods in CFCs which implemented interfaces.I have no factored-out Mockbox as...
View ArticleTrying to be sneaky and failing
G'day:As I said in my previous article, it's a bit of a slow day in the office today, so I'm just sitting here hitting ColdFusion interfaces with a sledgehammer to see what happens. I was trying to be...
View ArticleYeah, so it wouldn't be my working week without another CF vs JSON issue
G'day:Poor old me, and poor old Mockbox.I just found this one when testing Mockbox 2.1. Testing it to see if we could upgrade to it (no, not until this is fixed). We already could not upgrade to 2.0...
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G'day:Three minutes to pub time.Here's what happens when I raise a bug with Adobe, generally:ie: nothing, for a long time.Here's what happens when I raise a bug with Ortus Solutions, 16min after I...
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G'day:This is a strange article, this one. It started off just being a feature request which I was typing into the Adobe bug tracker, but decided to write my thoughts up here, by way of soliciting...
View Articleπ and strings
G'dayOK, an upfront warning: the degree of usefulness of the information herein is perhaps the most limited of all the articles I have written. So that's saying something.I was investigating some...
View ArticleMy CFLib approval process
G'day:A week or so ago there was some derision expressed that when approving UDFs submitted to CFLib we might change the code (for whatever reason). There was also derision expressed at how long it had...
View ArticleAnother day, another ColdFusion JSON bug (and a Railo bug too, just not with...
G'day:Well at least this time it wasn't something that caught me out. This one wasted someone else's time.I keep an eye on @CFBugNotifier on Twitter (yes: that was a gratuitous plug for my own work),...
View ArticlereplaceWithCallback() UDF for CFLib and suggested ER for ColdFusion
G'day:I was looking up the docs for Javascript's String replace() function the other day (because, no, I could not remember the vagaries of its syntax!). And whilst being relieved I had remembered it...
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G'day:I'm a bit late with this as it happened a week or so ago, but I just noticed I've been prattling away on this blog for a year now.Apropos of nothing, here's some mostly useless information about...
View ArticleReaction to / plug for recent 2DDU podcast
G'day:This isn't some attempt at a controversial reaction to something someone else in the community has said, it's just that the 2DDU podcast blog is a bit exclusive in that it requires a Facebook...
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Two things: I'm thick; and one cannot use a Mockbox mocked method as a callback
G'day:And to think someone said on Twitter the other day that I'm one of those people who are never wrong (the subtext being "actually you are, but just will never admit it"). Well here's an example of...
View ArticleI've come to a conclusion
G'day:This is something that I've been mulling over / worrying about / contemplating for a coupla months now. I find myself poised over the keyboard frequently about to write this increasingly often....
View ArticleThings I dislike: rules for the sake of rules
G'day:Rules are great things to have if there's a point to them. However rules just for the sake of it are just dumb. Here's a dumb rule ColdFusion has.Consider this code:function f(x){var x =...
View ArticleStupid (but trivial) bug with htmlEditFormat()
G'day:I was putting Adam Tuttle's htmlDecode() UDF through the approval process just before, and found a daft (and admittedly pretty inconsequential) bug with htmlEditFormat() whilst I was about...
View ArticleWhilst on the subject of things in ColdFusion that don't work
G'day:I also found this one whilst testing Adam's code (as per previous article).This doesn't work in ColdFusion (9.0.1):a = 1;b = 2;writeOutput("Result: #a == b#");I get:Error Occurred While...
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Two incidents of Adobe support that I noticed today
G'day:Here's a dichotomy.Adam Tuttle (inadvertently a double-mention today) raised a query today with Adobe, via Twitter. Here's how it panned out:There you go. He'd had an issue with Creative Cloud,...
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G'day:Just so you know... I never sit on any of the stuff I blather on about, or save it to make a particular point.There's a few general topics I've got lined up to investigate at some stage (eg:"PHP:...
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