Another survey (not by me this time) about text editor usage when CFML coding
G'day:More radio buttons for you to click! This time my mate Jared Evans wants to know what manner of app you tend to use for doing your coding (with a CFML bent to it). The survey is here:...
View ArticleColdFusion: language-centric stuff flagged for fixing (for ColdFusion 12?)
G'day:Adobe have claimed that ColdFusion 12 will be a developer-centric exercise, which makes a pleasing change from the PHB-oriented CF11 (well: that can be the only basis for <cfclient> to ever...
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G'day:Yeah, NZ colours or no: I was getting sick of that bloody black colour scheme, so I've got rid.I know at least Dan Skaggs will be pleased about this ;-)I also fixed up the missing JS I had not...
View ArticlePHP 7: anonymous classes
G'day:I thought it was high time I wrote an article with some code in it. Also one of my (now former ) colleagues - Cisco - asked me to write about this, so here I am.Another new feature of PHP 7 (see...
View ArticlePHP: a quick question about creating generic objects
G'day:I Twittered this yesterday, but I got no response. Here's a quick PHP question. I need to group some properties together in a throwaway object. It would be overkill to create a class for it, and...
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CFML: nice work Pete (cfdocs.org)
G'day:What a productive lunchtime I've had today. Well: blog-wise.This is timely. Adobe have messed the ColdFusion community around yet again by moving the docs site to a read-only affair, and one that...
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Survey results: Jared's CFML text editor usage survey
G'day:I've got Jared doing the donkey for for me today. Here's his article on the results of the CFML IDE survey he ran last week:First of all, may I say thank you to Adam Cameron for hosting this...
View ArticleSurvey: getting responses is like pulling teeth
G'day:(Well: mostly for just this survey). A few days back I posted about "Survey: bug tracking software UX expectations" (direct link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LJDXRNB).It's still languishing...
View ArticleSurvey results: bug tracking software expectations
G'day:This survey was so devoid of interest even I forgot about it! It took a bloody age for me to gather enough responses to bother writing up, but it seems to have maxed-out at 94 replies, so I'll...
View ArticleCFML: operator overloading
G'day:A while back I posted my "What I'd like to see in ColdFusion 12 (redux, as is happens)" article, and I provided links to most of the tickets I raised for features to facilitate discussion and...
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The quality of the new ColdFusion docs in one quick screencap
G'day:This is from Creating and Using Custom CFML Tags.Chuckle.-- Adam
View ArticleCode quiz: getting the next three elements of an array
G'day:I've got 25min to write this, so it'll be a bit scrappy. There's an interesting question on Stack Overflow at the moment: "Get next three elements in a ColdFusion list". The basic premise is the...
View ArticleRWC: down to the pointy end of things
G'day:In about an hour I'm heading off to Cardiff to watch something happen between the All Blacks and France. I have no idea what the result will be, as... well... France is a tricky prospect, and...
View ArticleColdFusion 12: it goes to show you should raise feature requests
G'day:I'm still under NDA with the ColdFusion 12 Prerelease Programme, so I need to be circumspect about what I say about CF12, but once someone from Adobe has talked about something in public, I...
View ArticleCFSummit 2015: see you there
G'day:Call it a "fortunate turn of events" (or something), but it so transpires that I will be at CFSummit this year. No-one expected that. Including me. Still: there you go.So who else is going? What...
View ArticleRWC: quarters and a semi
G'day:More "off topic" rugby shite here.I meant to write something midweek about my experiences with the quarter finals weekend, and predict what would happen in the semis. Well one semi is done, and -...
View ArticleColdFusion: new updates for CF10 and 11 available for pre-release testing
G'day:I'm a day or so behind on this, but in case you're a ColdFusion user but don't follow the Adobe ColdFusion Blog, this is for you.Adobe have release a pre release version of the latest updates for...
View ArticleCFSummit: what am I gonna go see?
G'day:Rightio then, I've had a look at the presentations on offer at CFSummit, and have tentatively decided what I'll probably try to go and see. Note that I always make one of these plans, and it...
View ArticleCFML community working well together
G'day:I've not much to say here, but I'm just really pleased how the CFML community - especially Dom Watson and Sean Corfield - have been chipping away and planning out and discussing a ColdFusion...
View Article1000
G'day:Blimey... the CFML Slack channel now has 1000 members! That's not bad going for an initiative only started a few months ago.I doubt anyone from the CFML community reading this blog hasn't already...
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