ColdFusion 12 is coming...
G'day:Just repeating news I heard from elsewhere. The ColdFusion 12 pre-release is going to be opened up shortly. This is interesting stuff! There's a blog article soliciting participation:...
View ArticleGitHub reorganisation
G'day:This is just a note to advise I've moved all my files about in GitHub, so none of the links to the source code examples on the blog will be working any more.Lemme know if there's one you need...
View ArticleWhat I'd like to see in ColdFusion 12 (redux, as is happens)
G'day:After the news of ColdFuson 12's pre release getting underway soon presented itself ("ColdFusion 12 is coming..."), I decided I'd work out what I'd like to see in CF12, and knock together an...
View ArticlePHP 7: PHP starts to play catch-up with error- / exception-handling
G'day:I'm not doing so well on the PHP 7 testing so far. CFML stuff keeps getting in the way.I did start having a lot at one of the better improvements to PHP 7 the other day: improvements to exception...
View ArticleEpicaricacy
G'day:This is a lazy-arse article - not least of all because I just point you back to one of my other articles from a few days ago - but in case you missed all this due to not following the comments on...
View ArticlePHP 7: Three-way comparison operator ()
G'day:Here's another new feature of PHP 7, there's not much to it, but it seems to work, and is almost sensibly implemented.The three-way comparison operation (you can piss off if you think I'm going...
View ArticlePHP 7: IIFEs supported
G'day:I was unaware of this feature of PHP 7 until I accidentally discovered it whilst writing my previous article ("PHP 7: Three-way comparison operator (<=>)"). PHP 7 supports...
View ArticlePHP 7: null coalescing operator
G'day:There's not much to say on this one, but I'll go through motions anyhow. First things first, I'm dead pleased they've gone for ?? rather than ?:, as I don't have to listen to people say "elvis...
View ArticlePHP 7: alpha 2 breaks EngineExceptions (on purpose, as it turns out)
G'day:I thought I was going mad... the code I wrote for yesterday's article ("PHP 7: PHP starts to play catch-up with error- / exception-handling") wasn't working today. Worried I was leading eveyrone...
View ArticlePHP 7: new to alpha 2... Throwables now supported
G'day:Exception handling has kinda been improved some more in PHP 7 alpha 2. Yesterday I looked at EngineExceptions ("http://blog.adamcameron.me/2015/06/php-7-php-starts-to-play-catch-up-with.html"),...
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PHP: getting PHP 5 and PHP 7 running side by side on the same machine (a...
G'day:When starting to test PHP 7 I decided I did not want to sacrifice PHP 5, so wanted both running together. I horsed around getting PHP 7 running via the Apache module, and PHP 5 running via CGI....
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Nice touch on Stack Overflow at the moment
G'day:I just noticed this in their header:And btw... good work today, United States.--Adam
View ArticleCFML: I did not realise one cannot nest threads in CFML
G'day:This is peer-group pressure at work. On IRC, Sean mentioned that in CFML (ColdFusion, Railo, Lucee... I have to admit I didn't think to look at OpenBD), one cannot nest thread calls. I was really...
View ArticleCFML: Slack
G'day:Ages ago I encouraged ppl to join us on the ##coldfusion IRC channel ("I... aaaah... see"). Thanks to the likes of Ryan, Dan and Sean, I was introduced to the new #cfml slack channel last night,...
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PHP 7: three different ways of dealing with much the same error/exception
G'day:My foray into how PHP "handles" erroring code continues. And continues down the same vein of "how PHP has made things difficult when they really ought to be straight forward".Here's three...
View ArticleCFML: apathy at work in the ColdFusion community
G'day:The other day I knocked together an article "What I'd like to see in ColdFusion 12 (redux, as is happens)", which lists a bunch of stuff I'd like to see in ColdFusion 12. It was a bit of a...
View ArticleUseless ColdFusion community members
This:"I liked all of them, so I decided not to comment."No.If you're any sort of CFML developer, you will go and raise feature requests, point out bugs, and generally get in with the swing of...
View ArticleJavaScript: deduping an array?
G'day:I'm being a JavaScript dev at the moment, which is... interesting. My JS ain't bad, but I need to spend a lot of time with my nose in Google / StackOverflow / MDN.Here's something that I feel...
View ArticleHot
G'day:So today is summer in London, and we're supposed to be hitting 33°C this afternoon, around about knock-off time.Just so you know how far away that is, I'll tell you:Lovely, lovely cold beer...
View Article20
G'day:According to Adobe, ColdFusion is 20 today. I tried to track down the exact release date a while back but couldn't find an online press-release or the like, but Anit assures me it was 2 July...
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