ColdFusion 11: it should go without saying...
G'day:I don't believe ColdFusion 11 is production-ready yet: the beta was too short, and - speaking for myself - I'm still finding bugs every time I decide to try something (not "every time I look for...
View ArticleColdFusion 10: be prepared, Adobe is removing the downloads
G'day:Amongst the (fairly muted) hubbub around ColdFusion 11 shipping today ("Announcing the launch of ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion Builder 3"), Adobe slipped some bad news into the mix as well. In a...
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ColdFusion 11: "Select ColdFusion Server Profile"
G'day:I'm just getting rid of the ColdFusion 11 beta on my machine, and installing the release version. Straight away there's an intriguing new feature that wasn't in the beta: "Select ColdFusion...
View ArticleI know you are, you said you are, but what am I?
G'day:This is for Brad and Christopher and Mark.<cfscript>st = {};o = new C();cfcInstance = createObject("java", "coldfusion.runtime.TemplateProxy");structInstance = createObject("java",...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: if Adobe haven't quite sapped yer will to live yet...
... could you do me a quick favour?G'day:A while back I raised this ticket with Adobe: 'List member functions should all be prefixed with "list"'; it's kinda self explanatory, but the gist is they'd...
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ColdFusion 11: allowedextforinclude functionality has changed. But the docs...
G'day:Remember this one: "ColdFusion 11: preventing files from being included? WTF, Adobe?". I can confirm this verymoderatelyslightly contentious feature has been changed in ColdFusion 11, but the...
View ArticleCredit where it's due: cheers Rupesh
G'day:I'm pretty hard on Rupesh at times (where those times are "most of them"), but I've just being doing some back-and-forth with him on the bug tracker regarding some bugs / enhancements I'd raised...
View ArticleList of articles on Adobe ColdFusion Forums for Anit
G'day:This is not an article, per-se, but just a list of links for Anit, I'll then be posting the link to this on Twitter. The links below are simply reproductions of my existing blog articles on the...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: what compiles down to
G'day:One of Sean's comments on another article ("ColdFusion 11: <cfclient>... how does normal CFML code and <cfclient> code interact?") got me thinking:This doesn't surprise me at all:...
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Defining datasources in Application.cfc
G'day:This feature of both Railo and now ColdFusion hasn't been talked about as much as I think it should have been. Both CFML platforms - as of 4.1 in the case of Railo, and 11 in the case of...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: cfloop in CFScript very broken
G'day:I started having a further look at what Adobe have done for CFScript in ColdFusion 11. According to their docs ("CFScript: Script support for tags") "ColdFusion 11 allows you to write all the...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: Adobe goes some way to correctly identifying what constitutes...
G'day:This is a follow-up to all the shenangians around isValid() and integers and what not: "Can we please agree that Adobe is not the arbitor of what constitutes an integer?". Adobe have done some...
View ArticleLooping in CFML: community input solicited
G'day:Yesterday I wrote-up my experiences with the new cfloop() construct in ColdFusion 11: "ColdFusion 11: cfloop in CFScript very broken". The same construct exists in Railo, btw (it's nowhere near...
View ArticleAdobe agree to revise their stand on prefixing of list-oriented member functions
G'day:Just very quickly... you know I wrote an article the other day, "ColdFusion 11: if Adobe haven't quite sapped yer will to live yet..."? Well we got some input from community members other than...
View ArticleSotR14: my schedule
G'day:A while ago I did an article on what I would like to go see, based on the likely sessions, but giving no thought to the schedule (which was not out at the time): Scotch on the Rocks: which...
View ArticleFor the record: Cameron vs
G'day:This is just cos I need some typing space.Isaac Sunkes posted on another article:If you try to google anything CF11 or CFCLIENT or similar looking for some useful information to help you learn...
View ArticleWe learn something every day...
G'day:This was brought to my attention via one of my colleagues. I guess it's predictable behaviour, but it's less than ideal, I think.Here's some code:// Parent.cfccomponent { function f(){}}//...
View ArticleAdvice for Adobe re Railo
G'day:I was a bit surprised to read this this morning:The sole reason for adding this functionality was to make it easy for the frameworks to define the datasources from within the framework without...
View ArticleReflection
G'day:No I'm not being philosophically introspective; I mean the Java kind of reflection. Recently there's been some yipyap about the place regarding both Railo (RAILO-3001) and ColdFusion (3753710)...
View ArticleWell that was unexpected
G'day:Well... once again I am gobsmacked by the community, and in a good way.In short, yesterday Gert from Railo hit me up on Skype and said Railo had a spare CF.Objective() ticket, and asked if I...
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