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Lucee CFML: import and application-set mappings (kinda redux)
G'day:This is a like a sequel to "Railo bug? Or ColdFusion bug...". That article details how ColdFusion will kind of allow import to use mappings set in Application.cfc, provided an include uses said...
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Random PHP bits: __debugInfo()
G'day:This is not a very insightful article, but I just happened to stumble across this functionality, and found it moderately interesting. This is another one of these "PHP n00b" articles, so if...
View ArticleRandom PHP (7) bits: improvements to generators
G'day:I was gonna have a look at output buffering in PHP today, but my attention has been hijacked by PHP 7. So instead I'm gonna have a look at some enhancements they've made to generators in 7. I'm...
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CFML / Lucee: beware of "optional" semi-colons
G'day:Not what I had in mind writing up today, but as often is the way... the easiest way to find bugs in CFML is it try to use it.Railo (all the way back in 3.1! "RAILO-186", "What's new in Railo...
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Lucee seems to mess up boolean expressions (kinda)
G'day:Another bloody stumbling block writing this code (see CFML / Lucee: beware of "optional" semi-colons for the first one). This time Lucee's not getting the result of a OR expression right....
View ArticleSome CFML code that doesn't work
G'day:I was sitting at Lord's yesterday watching England v NZ (and, um, we'll have no comments about that, thank-you very much), and a sudden thought popped into my head "Adam Presley might've been...
View ArticlePHP: trying (but not succeeding) to create my own Github-based Composer Package
G'day:So here's one of those articles in which I document trying to do something, but failing miserably. Enjoy.Update:This has been sorted out. See the follow-up article: "PHP: Fixed! My colleague...
View ArticlePHP: Fixed! My colleague sorts that Composer issue out for me
G'day: This relates back to yesterday's article: "PHP: trying (but not succeeding) to create my own Github-based Composer Package". I circulated the URL to the other bods on the team, and our latest...
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PHP: I find the PHP equivalent of on GitHub shortly after I package it myself
G'day:Sometimes I don't know why I bother. Oh well: at least I know more about Composer now. That's useful.Forever, there's been a PHP implementation of <cfdump>, over at...
View ArticleRailo: one month later and...?
G'day:Just a quick and vapid observation that all this - "Railo speaks at long last" / "A message from the majority shareholder of The Railo Company" - happened a month ago today. The following day I...
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CFML: learning something new about directoryList()
G'day:I need to shuffle some files around in my GitHub repos, as they're getting a bit of a mess. I decided to knock together a script to separate files out by file type, so I can rearrange my...
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Not a Lucee bug, but a ColdFusion one. And I learn more about Java
G'day:OK so remember that glitch I had in my earlier blog article: "CFML: learning something new about directoryList()":I finally managed to work out WTF is going on. And despite appearances it...
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PHP: more dumping in PHP... via Twig this time
G'day:A week or so ago I was messing around with the dBug class that Kwaku Otchere (according to the author info in the class) came up with a coupla years ago: "PHP: I find the PHP equivalent of...
View ArticleCFML: does it have a USP any more?
G'day:I initially wrote this on the Lucee Google Group, but it probably better belongs here. There has been discussion about the number of CFML devs (and by extension, Railo/Lucee devs), and what can...
View ArticleCFML/Lucee/Railo: Geoff Bowers does a good job of presenting Lucee's position...
G'day:Kai and Mark (with guest Geoff Bowers) have released a fascinating 2DDU today (depending on which timezone you're in). 'ere 'tis: "Episode 38 - Lucee, the fork and open-source licenses".If you're...
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PHP: getting PHP7 alpha running on Windows 8.1
G'day:I'm mostly writing this in case anyone else has the issues I had with this. Getting PHP 7 alpha (released yesterday: "PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 Released") was not as straight forward as getting the dev...
View ArticleLucee (/CFML?): approach Lucee language decisions "properly"
G'day:I'm having a PHP day today... testing PHP 7 alpha. This has lead me to be reviewing some of the RFCs (well: just one) for PHP 7 to clarify some behaviour I'm seeing.For language features, PHP has...
View ArticleCFML: spending pointless time looking and exceptions and errors and throwables
G'day:This kinda got out of control. I was meaning to be writing an article about PHP7's improvements to PHP's error handling, but whilst writing some comparative CFML code I got bogged-down looking at...
View ArticleCFML expectation management: when are empty elements respected?
G'day:Couldn't fit this into 140 chars, so it's not gonna be a Twitter message, but instead a short article here. It turns out I don't quite get "lists" in CFML. Or... I'm just being daft. You decide....
View ArticleLucee: Kai raises some very good points re .lucee and LAS's approach to it
G'day:[takes a deep breath]. OK, I'm going to try to not be all feisty in at least this article.Kai Koenig has put a lot of effort into seeking clarification about the .lucee thing, how it should be...
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