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Waitangi Day 2015
Tēnā koutou:It's Waitangi Day again (see "Completely and utterly off-topic: Waitangi Day"& "Waitangi Day again"), and I'm about to go back to NZ for a few weeks, during which time I'm gonna be...
View ArticlePHP: objects as arrays, and can CFML benefit from the concept?
G'day:We had a situation at work the other day in which we needed a collection class, I think it was Properties (that's in the real estate sense of "property", not the OO one: I work for an online...
View ArticleRay Camden says "CFML is dead"! Kinda. Not really
G'day:I can't believe it! Ray Camden just said CFML IS DEAD!!!!@DAC_dev as long as they blame you, not me. ;)— Raymond Camden (@raymondcamden) February 7, 2015@DAC_dev i dare you (and id be ok with it...
View ArticleLucee: does its future include CFML?
G'day:There's a lively thread on the Lucee Google Group at the moment: "Outsider Perspective". There's a fair bit of cruft in there... OK, it's mostly cruft... but there was one very interesting...
View ArticleUsing small words (for the Lucee Google Group followers)
fortheloveoffuckinggodnooneistakingyourpreciouscfmltagsawayfromyoutherehasbeennosuggestionofthishappeningatallallthesuggestedchangesthatareatoddswithexistingcfmlarenotgoingtoimpactCFMorCFCfilesjustLUCE...
View ArticleTrying to get clarification about the status / future of Railo
G'day:I figured I had better try to find out the official word from The Railo Company as to the status of the Railo open source project, and what the future for it is likely to be. I have written this...
View ArticleSnooze
G'day:This is just a heads-up. I intend to put this blog on hiatus for the next few weeks. I'm on holiday at the moment, and I'm also trying to break the back of this CFML book I'm writing (slowly......
View ArticleCFML: Interface fulfilment via mixin
G'day:So a day after I say I'm gonna leave this blog be for a while, I'm back. It's like how I said I was ditching CFML and going to PHP on this blog. Basically I just lie, don't I?Well I'm sick of...
View Article"ColdFusion Interfaces": a question from a reader
G'day:One of my readers hit me up with a question about interfaces in CFML:[...] I would like to ask you a question please. I was unable to find a recent good article by you or anyone else about this...
View ArticleClean Code
G'day:Not something by me, but just a heads-up to go read one of Gav's blog articles: "CommandBox - Commands can be Clean Code Too". Don't worry about the fact it's about *Box stuff, that's irrelevant....
View ArticleI post a Lucee question on Stack Overflow
G'day:Maybe you can help with this: "Associating child tag data with grandparent tag using CFC-based custom tags"?The full repro case for this question is in my GitHub repository. I'll only reproduce...
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ColdFusion 11 update 4 released
G'day:This'll be quick as I'm sitting in some dodgy motel room in Wellington, in the dark, with internet that is hamster-wheel powered.I just noticed ColdFusion 11 update 4 has finally been released....
View ArticleAdobe ColdFusion Team getting their act together?
G'day:On the heels of ColdFusion update 4 coming out yesterday, I see that there is now ColdFusion 10 Update 16 prerelease build available (37 fixes), as well as ColdFusion 11 Update 5 prerelease build...
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Off topic: sorry, this needs repeating
G'day:I know this will mean nothing to my readers from the Americas.ICC Cricket World Cup, 9th Match, Pool A: New Zealand v England at Wellington, Feb 20, 2015England Innings R M B 4s 6s SRIR Bell b...
View ArticleColdFusion: testing the recent updates
G'day:As I'd raised a few of the issues Adobe claims to have fixed in these recent ColdFusion updaters, I figure I should probably do some testing for them.First up, ColdFusion 11 update 5Error in...
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Regarding codes of conduct and the nature of forum participation
G'day:There's been discussion about a Code of Conduct for the Lucee Google Group. Well without having the bottle to actually describe it as such... indeed going so far as to suggest that isn't what...
View ArticleDom posts interesting feedback
G'day:I was gonna just bury this as a response to a comment in the original article, but I've decided Dom's comment is really excellent, so I'm promoting his comment & my feedback to be an...
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CFML: trying to understand accessors
G'day:I've decided I'm the wrong person to be writing a book on CFML, given I clearly don't bloody understand even the fundamentals of it, in places. And this is after using it daily for over a dozen...
View ArticleDan Kraus - "more CF devs need to leave The Shire for a bit"
G'day:I'm going through my in box today, catching up with all the comments ppl have made that I've not replied to.Dan Kraus made a comment the other week on that article "Lucee: does its future include...
View ArticleGuerilla tactics to force Adobe's hands
G'day:It's Friday afternoon and I'm in a cheeky mood.I dunno if you spend much time voting on ColdFusion issues, but I do. And if you do, you have probably fallen foul of this message when you...
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