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ColdFusion-UI-the-Right-Way:
G'day:I've just finished another "chapter" on ColdFusion UI the Right Way, this time a quick treatment of <cfajaxproxy>. Once again, I'll repeat it here for the sake of a) promoting CFUItRW; b)...
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TestBox, BDD-style tests, Railo member functions and bugs therein
G'day:One of the promised features of ColdFusion 11 is to bring "member functions" to ColdFusion's inbuilt data types. Railo's already had a good go at doing this, and has reasonably good coverage. See...
View ArticleColdFusion 11 has gone public beta...
G'day:Just quickly... I have nothing really to report on this yet, but this is just a heads-up: ColdFusion 11 has just gone beta, and is available to download from Adobe: "Download Adobe ColdFusion...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: "Getting Started Server"
G'day:The first seemingly good thing that ColdFusion 11 offers is a "Getting Started Server", which is an installation-free version of ColdFusion server. It's just a zip file.I'm downloading it now...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: first bug. Bad bug.
G'day:Well that didn't take long.One can no longer <cfinclude> any sort of file except a CFML file. EG:<cfinclude template="junk.js">This yields:Invalid template junk.js provided for...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: @cfmlnotifier feeds updated
G'day:(yeah, you're going to get a battering from me today). I've updated the @cfmlnotifier feed to report the following on ColdFusion 11 bugs:Daily tally, eg:2014-02-19 20:21 Untriaged ColdFusion 11...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: preventing files from being included? WTF, Adobe?
G'day:This is a follow-on from my earlier article "ColdFusion 11: first bug. Bad bug.". I'm writing it up separately here as it's a slightly different issue, worth discussion.That previous issue...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: good stuff
G'day (again!):But it's not all bad. Some of the things I've looked at so far have worked well.Member functions Once I got TestBox working (see "ColdFusion 11: first bug. Bad bug."), I was able to run...
View ArticleCompletely off topic: this is the state of spam
G'dayA slightly lighter moment. I just had this land in the "is this legit?" box in my blog's moderation queue:What i don't understood is in reality how you are no longer actually much more...
View ArticleCan we please agree that Adobe is not the arbitor of what constitutes an...
G'day:My... what a lot of ColdFusion chatter this is at the moment. It's bloody good I'm on holiday at the moment so I can keep up with it (and... erm... instigate some of it... ;-).But for this...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: queryExecute()
G'day:No ifs or buts this time... Adobe dun good with a new feature in ColdFusion 11: queryExecute().For years (up to and including ColdFusion 8), the biggest thing missing from CFScript, IMO, was the...
View ArticleExpressions and operators and doing weird shit
G'day:I want to just return to the topic I touched on here briefly the other day in the article "ColdFusion 11: good stuff", and discussed more thoroughly on the Railo Google Group as "Probable bug in...
View ArticleFeature toggling for both Railo and ColdFusion
G'day:I'm just drawing attention to part of the bottom line of my previous article ("Expressions and operators and doing weird shit"), as I think it's a significant feature request for both Railo and...
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Fixing any bug has backwards compatibility concerns
G'day:I'm going to bang on about isValid() and integers some more. You've been warned.Right, so I was horrified to see that this is the case in ColdFusion:isValid("integer", "$,1,2,$,2352345,$"):...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: member functions implementations and suggestions
G'day:Enough of the rhetoric, here's some code. I'm having a look at the new member functions in ColdFusion 11 today. And have some samples, observations and suggestions.Here's a quick (and terribly...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: preserveCaseForStructKey
G'day:There's a new feature in ColdFusion 11:Case preservation of struct keysCurrently, the cases for struct keys are not preserved in ColdFusion. The struct keys get converted to upper case...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: a lot of string member functions have not been implemented
G'day:I was writing some scratch code today to parse some strings, and I tried to do this:matches = myString.reMatch(regex);And this didn't work. For some reason, Adobe have not implemented it.So I've...
View ArticleBreaking out of an each() loop
G'day:I'm just soliciting opinions here. I'll raise a ticket for it anyhow, but let's see what people think.In Ruby, one can do this:["Rāhina", "Rātū", "Rāapa", "Rāpare", "Rāmere", "Rāhoroi",...
View ArticleFive-tagger? what n-tagger am I?
G'day:Kev wrote an interesting article today: "Software Craftsmanship – for CFML Developers Part Six – Interlude – Passion", and I extracted a pleasing quote from it:If you’re just a 9-5er and/or a 5...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: query column types preserved when serialising to JSON, eh?
G'day:I'm playing catch-up with the comments on the blog, and one of said comments from Roberto Marzialetti got me looking at an old article: "ColdFusion vs JSON. How to make a developer cry". In this...
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