CFCamp: what am I gonna go check out (on Sunday/Monday)
G'day:So I'm off to CFCamp, thanks to Mike Hnat and the other sponsors who pitched in to get me over there (I've said it already, but I'll say it again, and I'm gonna keep saying it: you guys rock)....
View ArticleAdobe have only gone and done it again! (but in a good way)
G'day:A great tract of "status update" messages came through @cfBugNotifier this afternoon, and Adobe are now down to 138 untriaged CF10 bugs. That's down another 20-odd from a coupla weeks back when...
View ArticleFollow up to "Preventing Adobe from messing with ColdFusion community...
G'dayJust a quick copy and paste job today. I put this on the comments @ CFHour because it was in direct relation to their coverage of my earlier article "Preventing Adobe from messing with ColdFusion...
View ArticleCFML Suggestion: being able to stipulate passing data by reference
G'day:I'm just soliciting opinions about a potential feature request here. I'd like to be able to force ColdFusion to pass arguments / parameters by reference rather than by value.I wrote an article a...
View ArticleExpectations management: date casting in QoQ
G'day:Just a quick one today. I camne across some unexpected (to me) and pretty unhelpful behaviour in QoQ yesterday, with thecast() function.Here's some code:someDates =...
View ArticleNull coalescing operator for ColdFusion 11
G'day:I just noticed the ticket I raised with Adobe for adding a null-coalescing operator to ColdFusion has been marked "to fix". Nice one!I suggested two possible syntaxes: either be like C#Â and use...
View ArticleGood communications from Adobe
G'day:I'm always quick to berate Adobe for poor communications, so - fair's fair - here's a "hey nice one!" at them - Rupesh in particular - for some feedback he's given on one of the tickets I had...
View ArticleCFCamp: what am I seeing on Day 2?
G'day:I'm sitting in the pub in Portumna, having completely my paternal input for the day, and just killing time until it occurs to me what else to do. And drinking Guinness (end of pint one). It will...
View ArticleBad Request
G'day:Miscellany about 400 (the first two courtesy of Wikipedia's page on the subject):"The Sun is approximately 400 times the size of the Moon but also is approximately 400 times further away,...
View ArticleThank F*** that fell foul of the Adobe Forums moderators
G'day:I got this in the email this morning:You have received this email because the content you posted below has been rejected by our moderators.And what was it that I said to warrant this?(NSFW...
View ArticleThings I dislike: jobsworths
G'day:Update:For non-UK-English-speakers, from Wikipedia:A jobsworth is a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an...
View ArticleDecompiling ColdFusion's code: from the EULA
G'day:This is just to save me typing on Twitter.These are extracts from the software licence in the root directory of my ColdFusion 10 install (C:\apps\adobe\ColdFusion\10\license.html):[...] 2.6...
View ArticleThings I do like: contrasts
G'day:This is a follow-up from yesterday's article "Things I dislike: jobsworths". In this article we see the constrast between how Adobe conduct themselves, and how Railo do in a similar (well, hey,...
View ArticleLatest from Adobe on the getParameter() thing
G'day:Just noticed this new comment on 3222889:Of course the method is there since it is part of the interface. It is just that the call for getParameter('param') is returning null and we will have to...
View ArticleWow: ColdFusion's built-in functions will now be first class in ColdFusion 11
G'day:Gotta be quick: at work. A while back I wrote an article "Callbacks and built-in functions as first-class functions", and floated the idea of promoting built-in functions to be first class:...
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G'day:That heading works better if one is aware of how non-rhotic the Kiwi accent is.Anyway, I was wittering away "helping" someone (Kyle Macey) with a CFML problem last night, when someone suugested...
View ArticleUnit Testing / TDD - initial rhetoric
G'day:I was talking to a mate/colleague the other day @ CFCamp, and the topic of unit tests came around, and that they... well... didn't do any. They were aware this was not good, but had a sorta...
View ArticleDocumentation for older versions of ColdFusion
G'day:Gavin was asking about docs for older versions of ColdFusion today. In my searchings, I've located the docs for a number of older versions of ColdFusion. I'm gonna list 'em here so they're easier...
View ArticleSo there won't be support for OSX 10.9 "Mavericks" on ColdFusion 10
G'day:There's been a huge flurry of activity on the ColdFusion Bug tracker around ticket 3653076, entitled "Bad apache / tomcat connector for Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9". It was raised two days ago and has...
View ArticleG'day:CFSummit 2013 started today - I'm quite jealous of everyone who's there btw - and Adobe opened with a variation on their keynote they used at cf.Objective(), SotR and CFCamp, which covers some of...
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