Help Indy
G'day:I probably should have got onto this earlier, as it's the last day this funding campaign is running, but... err... didn't think about it.Indy is a fella I follow on Twitter... he's part of our...
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G'day:I'm getting to this earlier than expected (see my observation in yesterday's article: "PHP: Service Providers with Silex")... I was able to write the code last night whilst watching telly, and...
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CFML: just cos something looks like an array doesn't mean it is an array
G'day:One of my Aussie chums hit me up the other day, asking me for some help with some quirky code he was seeing. We worked out what the issue was, but it stands repeating because it was non-obvious...
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CFML: and, for that matter: not everything that looks like a struct actually...
G'day:Coincidentally very similar issue (to "CFML: just cos something looks like an array doesn't mean it is an array") came up on Friday.I'll not bang on about it too much, but an Exception object is...
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Lucee has a new forum expressly for discussing language features
G'dayThis is potentially promising from the Lucee mob:Lucee Language ForumWe've set up a new forum to better manage ongoing discussion about Lucee internals; hacking on the server itself, language...
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Lucee: issue tracker has moved to Jira
G'day:Well here's some good news - which happened to catch me out last night - Lucee have completed the switch from BitBucket to Jira for their issue tracking.They've mentioned it on the Lucee Google...
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"M"? M!
G'day:OK, enough fo the single letter blog titles with no bodies (ref: "M"). What was that all about? Well AndyK correctly guessed this morning:My colleague Brian got the literal meaning,but not the...
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Clarification / retraction re Lucee community participation
G'day:I mean to post this y/day, but forgot.Brad pointed out I've been talking porkies about Lucee's popularity / community size:Also, you and Sean are spreading what I believe are misleading "facts"...
View ArticleChange of persona
G'day:Just a note... if you have my dac.cfml GMail address on file... get rid. I'm discontinuing it.The only thing I was seriously using it for was for administrating this blog, and participating in a...
View ArticleRailo speaks at long last
G'day:I'm going to get this out quickly without any analysis (I've not even finished reading it!), but Railo - yeah Railo, not Lucee - have just posted this on their blog ("A message from the majority...
View ArticlePlease post a comment on this article
G'day:I'm having some issues with Disqus, perhaps linked to me changing some email addresses.Could you pls post a comment on this article? I just wanna see how / when / to where I get the...
View ArticleQuestions for Railo
G'day:Well: what a flurry of hysteria we had yesterday, eh? (if you missed it: "Railo speaks at long last", then go to the Lucee Google Group or Twitter for more reaction). I can't say I was...
View ArticleThis Railo v Lucee thing: a well-balanced reaction (from someone else)
G'day:I had a response to make to a comment this evening, but Ron Stewart beat me to it, saying pretty much what I'd've said, except better. And more politely. I wasn't going to bother being...
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PHP: inadvertently looking at a coupla refactoring tactics with Twig
G'day:Here we have details of me unsuccessfully trying to replicate an issue we are having with one of our Twig files... it's not seeing some data being passed to it. However along the way I got myself...
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Railo doesn't speak
G'day:Last week Railo contacted me and asked me to raise awareness of a new blog article they had published (their article: "A message from the majority shareholder of The Railo Company"; my initial...
View ArticleLucee 5: using a Java class file
G'day:Here's one that bit me on the bum with Lucee, and took me a while to sort out. Not least of all because of some... err... communication challenges I had along the way trying to get help on the...
View ArticleCFML: what manner of object should an Exception be?
G'day:Just before I commence a discussion on the Lucee Language Forum, I thought I'd do a code sample and ask what people think.The question is stated in the subject line: "what manner of object should...
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Getting PHP 5.x & 7-dev running on Windows/Apache
G'day:Yesterday evening I discovered there are runnable versions of PHP 7-dev for Windows. I'd looked around for them before, but didn't spot them. Maybe they're new. I'm really struggling to get...
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