Most popular unhandled ColdFusion bugs
G'day:Apropos of not much, I grabbed a list of all the ColdFusion bugs in the bugbase that:have ten or more votes;do not have a status of "fixed".Here's a table of them, and my thoughts.Key:Handled...
View ArticleBug watch: 212206 untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs
G'day:The code & testing for the article I'm writing is going to take a few hours, and Mon-Fri I only have a coupla hours available each day to write said code, so I'll not get to the actual...
View ArticleCFSQLTYPE issue Status => "To fix"
G'day:Yeah, I've been slack recently. I've got something in the pipeline (or about four things in the pipeline), but they're all too labour intensive, and I've been sidetracked onto other things when I...
View ArticleRuby: third tutorial (part 1 of tbc)
G'day:I first encountered Code School a few months back when Ray pointed out that they were having a free weekend. Having taken advantage of the freeness and being satisfied with the quality of their...
View ArticleCFCONTENT in CFScript
G'day:As per my earlier article about a <cfqueryparam> enhancement I raised, which Adobe have put in the pipeline to be fixed, here's another one which could use some votes to get re-opened and...
View ArticleG'day:This is gonna be quick as I'm a) hungover (yeah... 10pm and I'm still hungover from y/day!); b) had a few medicinal beers to try to deal with (a); c) absolutely nackered, and want to just...
View ArticleGood work Adobe ColdFusion Team!
G'day:I've run a coupla articles about how many ColdFusion 10 issues there are outstanding in the Adobe ColdFusion bugbase, and how there seemed to be total inertia in dealing with them:212 untriaged...
View ArticleThings I don't like about CFScript
G'day:This is a lunch-time article so I gotta be quick.Now don't let the title put you off... I love CFScript and that's what most of my code is written in. I think tags only have a place in files in...
View ArticleWay to make me feel thick, Sean... by explaining to me
G'day:OK, it's not about <cfparam>, but relating to its CFScript-ready chum: param.Yesterday I wittered on about things I don't like in CFScript, and one example I used of "how not to do it" was...
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Prelude to a storm
G'dayI started doing some research for this evening's blog article just now. It's relating to that "What you didn't know about CFML" thing that did the rounds last week, and the Adobe ColdFusion...
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"What you didn't know about CFML", eh?
G'day:A few weeks back the existence of a document / flyer / thingey entitled "What you didn't know about CFML". A lot of people sent Twitter messages announcing its existence, other people (sometimes...
View ArticleCFCamp 2013
G'day:Yesterday Michael Hnat, organiser of CFCamp dropped me a line, and made me an offer I could not refuse...I'd spoken to him a while ago, and indicated whilst I'd like to go to CFCamp, the...
View ArticleShort, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example
G'day:This is a lazy post, as it's just linking to another article, but so be it.Maybe you read my article ages ago, "Need help? Know how to ask for it". Here's more advice along the same vein. Peter...
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ColdFusion Builder to Sublime Text 2
G'day:At work the powers that be have decided we are going to pilot using Sublime Text 2.I'm not sure what precipitated this, but I've heard a lot of people in the community bang on about it, so I've...
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Preventing Adobe from messing with ColdFusion community projects
G'day:I was chatting to me mate Andrew Myers on Twitter this morning, and he brought this Twitter exchange about - basically - the death of CFQuickDocs at Adobe's hands to my attention:Is CFQuickDocs...
View ArticleScraps, scrapes and soup
G'day:Yesterday I noted - fairly "emphatically" - that changes to Adobe's ColdFusion docs site (not the new flash-harry CF10 stuff, the old stuff that they never update) have allegedly broken some...
View ArticleWhen to use pound-signs
G'day:I'm writing this so I can link someone to it. It's just what it says on the wrapper, so won't be of any interest to anyone who already knows this.I still fairly frequently see people using...
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ColdFusion 10 docs are under Creative Commons licensing
G'day:This is just a follow-up to my weekend's article regarding the "archiving" of ColdFusion documentation. At the time I had a query regarding who the CF10 docs are licensed. The CF9 ones are...
View ArticleRuby: blocks (recap), proc(edures), lambdas and methods
G'day:This is a continuation of the article I knocked together a week or so ago, last time I did a Ruby course @ CodeSchool. I've beend ead slack at keeping up with those courses... I meant to do a...
View ArticleHow sausages are made
G'day:Today I pulled back the curtain on some of ColdFusion's inner workings... and hastily closed the curtain and declared "nothing to see here. Move along".For reasons I won't go into, I found myself...
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