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I love being wrong
G'day:That's not sarcasm, I actually do rather like being wrong about stuff: it's a great vector for learning new things and improving one's knowledge. Provided one doesn't get defensive about being...
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Forgot to say
G'day:OK, I often say "this'll be a quick one", and then waffle on for a coupla thousand words. Not this time: it'll be quick.One thing I forgot to mention in the "I love being wrong" article I posted...
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Constants for CFML
G'day:This one is just an idea I had for ColdFusion 11 (or Railo... just "for CFML" really). Well it's not an idea that's particular to me, nor is it a new one. Or an earth-shattering one. Or one that...
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Wanting script to work like tags (#1 in a series of "fool's errands")
G'day:Ever since ColdFusion 9 implemented a jerry-built1 way of making DB calls in CFScript via Query.cfc, people have been observing/complaining/hand-wringing that the way one passes the SQL string...
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Am I right to think this is stupid?
G'day:This was brought to my attention via a thread on the Adobe forums in which someone was messing around with closure functions being used as callbacks. One of the statements they made was:The only...
View ArticlePositive Communication from Adobe regarding ColdFusion
G'day:In a break from the perceived doom & gloom I have been seeing recently regarding CFML - this blog, Sean's blog, Andy's blog (Andy's gripe is specifically about the ColdFusion installers not...
View ArticleRegular expressions in ColdFusion (part 1: overview)
G'day:Before I startThis started off being a single article, but it ended up way too long. And by the time I've come to be divvying it up, I'm thoroughly fed-up with it, so I'm not going to do the...
View ArticleWhen functions do too much, and how to get them to do more
G'day:After soliciting more UDFs for CFLib a while ago, I've been dead slack at processing the inbound queue, and fixing some bugs people have found. Sorry about that. I started playing catch-up at...
View ArticleRegular expressions in ColdFusion (part 2: concepts)
G'day:This is part two of the series I started with the introduction article: "Regular Expressions in ColdFusion (part 1: overview)". Initially I set out to only write one article, but by the time it...
View ArticlePositive Communication from Adobe regarding ColdFusion: more thoughts
G'day (again): I'm following the comment thread on the "ColdFusion: News, Initiatives and Updates from Adobe" blog post on the Adobe blog that got posted a few days ago. I offered my first tranche of...
View ArticleNeed help? Know how to ask for it
G'day:This article is borne out of exasperation rising from feeling with people on StackOverflow. But this time not the nazi muppets who like to think they are in a position of authority (and they're...
View ArticleRegular expressions in ColdFusion (part 3: syntax - single characters)
G'day:This is part three of the series I started with the introduction article: "Regular Expressions in ColdFusion (part 1: overview)", and followed with a discussion entitled "Regular expressions in...
View ArticleRegular expressions in ColdFusion (part 4: syntax - repetition,...
G'day:This is part four of the series I started with the introduction article: "Regular Expressions in ColdFusion (part 1: overview)", and followed with a discussion entitled "Regular expressions in...
View ArticleChristmas Spirit, StackOverflow style (#2 in a list of why StackOverflow is...
G'day:Is it the season for "Peace on Earth and goodwill to all men"? No, on StackOverflow it's more like "Screw you, newbie @rsehole: I have power over you, die die die" for some people. And, again,...
View ArticleRegular expressions in ColdFusion (part 5: syntax - look-arounds, and how the...
G'day:This is part five of the series I started with the introduction article: "Regular Expressions in ColdFusion (part 1: overview)", and followed with a discussion entitled "Regular expressions in...
View ArticleMore balance, fewer @rseholes
G'day:There's been a bit of back-and-forth on Twitter (nothing of any merit, sadly) regarding my posting from the other day regarding some "shortcomings" in the attitude of some of the users on Stack...
View ArticleCallbacks and built-in functions as first-class functions
G'day:This will be my most unplanned blog article to date. I saw a thread on the Railo newsgroup over Xmas, and whilst catching up with my responses just now, decided "oh, I'll be able to come up with...
View ArticleDon't optimise your code
G'day:Well that headline is a gross over-simplification of what I'm going to say here. Obviously one should write code that's optimal for the task at hand, but there's a time and place for doing this...
View ArticleDon't optimise your code (annexe)
G'day (again):In the previous article I alluded to the fact I had more to say on the approach I had to creating my test strings for those experiments. This'll just be short, as it's a variation on the...
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G'day:Blimey; three articles today. Once again, this stems from a thread on the Railo Google Group, this time regarding a bug I found in Railo (or that I think is a bug), which resulted in some...
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