Warning: don't de-install patches from ColdFusion 10
G'day:Here's a warning... it's a bit of an edge-case, but worth knowing. I just tried to de-install some patches from two of my ColdFusion 10 servers, and in both cases it has rendered CF Administrator...
View ArticleOh dear: tags vs script
G'day:I'm surprised this one didn't come up earlier (like back when I did this one: "/>"). But Marcus Fernstrom and I started talking about this last night on Twitter, and - despite "best" efforts -...
View ArticleDifferent bugs in each() function in each of Railo and ColdFusion
G'day:A quick one. I was investigating a bug in Railo, detailed in "Arguments - Struct or Array", and as well as verifying the bug in Railo, I found a different one in ColdFusion.Here's the repro...
View ArticleI'm sick of vendors screwing up CFML
G'day:AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!How hard does any of this need to be? I'm posting this here and against the Railo bug report I started typing it into "CFHTTP accept callback UDF to report progress"...
View ArticleFinally had a chance to look at Sean's version of case()
G'day:This took way longer to revisit than I intended. Apologies to Sean, as it might have seemed like I solicited some code from him and then ignored it. And, indeed, that was mostly the case other...
View ArticleSurvey: to scope or not to scope
G'day:And, indeed as the old trope goes: "that's the question". I have been looking at some code that follows one coding standard, which says "thou shalt scope all variables". And I look at my code, in...
View ArticleG'day:I was thinking about this independently the other day, but then the same question came up on Stack Overflow today: "Is there a shorthand for <cfoutput>", in which the punter asks if this...
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7Li7W: Ruby Day 1
G'day:That's short of "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks", btw: some ppl get arsey when I write about non-CFML stuff on a blog claiming to be about CFML, so it's an enabler for them to know to piss off...
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Survey results: scoping of variables-scope variables
G'day:So I'll close off the survey "Survey: to scope or not to scope" now. I got a good level of response: 79 responses. Here's the aggregation of said responses. Including some charts just for you,...
View ArticleEmbryonic ideas
G'day:This is gonna have to be quick, as I've spent my "before work" blogging window chatting on Twitter / Skype with various people. So I need to get this out the door in the next 30min.Over the last...
View ArticleCool (I think?) Railo can have dynamic case values
G'day:Thanks to NicholasC from IRC for putting me onto this. Apparently in Railo, one can have dynamic values for case values in a switch/case!Here's an example:<!---...
View ArticleCFML switches: how they're implemented in the underlying Java
G'day:This is just a quick follow-up tot he earlier article "Cool (I think?) Railo can have dynamic case values". Michael was wondering out loud what the CFML gets compiled down to in Java (well: he...
View ArticleDon't advertise yourself as a CFML website
G'day:Do you know what the first thing I do when I see a website which uses .cfm file extensions is?I browse to /Application.cfc, then /Application.cfm. Often this will error - if you don't do a proper...
View ArticleAre the docs for wrong, or am I misunderstanding?
G'day:Just before I update the ColdFusion docs and file a bug with Railo, can someone please santiy check this.The docs for <cfexit> say...
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Railo: CFC-based custom tags
G'day:As a baseline for some more research I am about to do, I wanted to get up to speed with how Railo implements CFC-based custom tags. I had read their blog articles about them:CFC-based Custom Tags...
View ArticleThat bug I thought I had spotted: solved
G'day:Yesterday I asked for some help understanding a mismatch between some code and some docs: "Are the docs for <cfexit> wrong, or am I misunderstanding?".I just looked at this some more, and...
View ArticleQuick quiz: checking your expectations
G'day:This is a super quick one. What would you expect this code to output://each.cfma = ["a"];a[3] = "c";a.each(function(v,i,a){ writeOutput("value: #v#<br>");});This is not a trick question,...
View ArticleWhat was that array.each() quiz all about?
G'day:Yesterday I posed a quiz question to you: "Quick quiz: checking your expectations", which was asking how you'd expect this code to behave://each.cfma = ["a"];a[3] = "c";a.each(function(v,i,a){...
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/ bug details for Adobe & Railo
G'day:I need a place to put some pictures for a coupla bugs I need to raise, so I'll slap 'em in here and point Adobe & Railo at them. There's not much of interest going on below the fold, so don't...
View ArticleLooking at PHP's OOP from a CFMLer's perspective (part 1/?)
G'day:Once again I find myself looking at PHP. As an exercise, I'm gonna get up to speed with how OO is effected in PHP, and as a learning aid I'm gonna document it as I go. I hasten to add I am very...
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