ColdFusion: please help me discourage Adobe from releasing bad code
G'day:As you may or may not know, CFML has a bunch of headless functions for encoding strings according to OWASP security recommendations,...
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ColdFusion: so there won't be a ColdFusion 12?
G'day:Yes, this is obviously a case of two things:Betteridge's law of headlines...... being used for click baiting (or indeed in this case, click bating perhaps ;-).There will definitely be a "next"...
View ArticleColdFusion: more on this encodeForHtml() crap
G'day:This is a follow-up to last week's ColdFusion: please help me discourage Adobe from releasing bad code article; my inspiration drawing from Brad and Sean's comment on same. I found myself writing...
View ArticleSurvey: singular or plural for datetime component setters?
G'day:ColdFusion is adding date/time component setters methods to CFML, eg: myDate.setYear() etc. The ticket covering this is here: 3374275: Add granularity to createDateTime().The methods could be...
View ArticleSurvey results: singular or plural for datetime component setters?
G'day:Yesterday I asked you whether for methods for setting the discrete components of a datetime whether you prefer singular - eg: setMinute() - or plural - setMinutes(). The reason for this is that...
View ArticlePHP: initially puzzling but then obvious challenge with class files
G'day:This is a "real world" situation we had in the office a few weeks ago. I started writing it up about a month ago, but then I got my hands on Fallout 4, and that has pretty much been what my spare...
View Article2016: sit. rep. for this blog
G'day:I've been really rubbish at writing new stuff recently. There's a few reasons for this, if we look back to November or so when my efforts here really died off:I'm really, intrinsically, lazy. So...
View ArticleQuicky: essential read about variations of ways of disagreeing with stuff
G'day:I'd not normally do this, but this was a very good read, and as I seem to be in the business (O that it paid!) with disagreeing with stuff, it's kinda relevant here. Here's the article: "How to...
View ArticleAdobe opening up ColdFusion 2016 prerelease to more punters
G'day:I can't really say too much about this (NDA, etc), but the Adobe ColdFusion Team have posted this on their blog "Pre-release for API Management capabilities in ColdFusion Raijin".So if you're...
View ArticleComments on the mobile view
G'day:Someone (Andy Myers or Adam Tuttle? Can't remember). Observed recently that comments on this blog weren't showing up in the mobile view. I'm not sure why they vanished, but I've added them back...
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Reflection on CFML tags and functions
G'day:And I don't mean that in the philosophical or introspective sense. I mean actual reflection: being able to programmatically address the CFML language itself.This line of thinking has come from...
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PHP & CFML: xpath with empty name spaces
G'day:My mate who sits next to me at work, Amar, was trying to extract some info from an XML document, and we stumbled over the xpath syntax when there was a namespace defined, but no prefix was given....
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The end of ColdFusion
G'day:Yes, that is definitely a click-bait headline. But in the context I'm talking about, it's correct.Today my employer switched off our ColdFusion site, replacing it with the remodeled PHP one. So...
View ArticleAbandonware: "Learn CFML in 24h" notes
G'day:I've just been talking to a few people on the CFML slack channel about the sorry state of ColdFusion documentation.A while back I started a private project "Learn CFML in 24 hours", which was...
View ArticleMissing/undecided chapters in this CFML book (and other questions)
G'day:So with me "abandoning" that CFML book I was writing (Abandonware: "Learn CFML in 24h" notes), I've now got rekindled interest in it. I'm nothing if not contrary.I've read over what I've done so...
View ArticleStepping looping
G'day:Yeah, this is an odd thing to write about, and there's no trick to it: I really do mean this sort of thing:for i=1 to 10 step 2I got to thinking about this because of a comment from Chris Dawes...
View Articlehackread.com: putting the "hack" back into journalism
G'day:I can't post this in response to the article in question as the website requires a Facebook login, one of which I do not have. Anyway, there's this exercise in journalistic cheapshottery (yes, I...
View ArticleFloating point arithmetic with decimals
G'day:As a human... what is the value of z, after you process this pseudocode with your wetware:x = 17.76y = 100z = x * yHopefully you'd say "1776". It was not a trick question.And that's an integer,...
View ArticleGroovy: making and using a jar file
G'day:First up: there's nothing clever in any of this, and I'm approaching it as a newbie. I just had to work out how to do this - which I have - and want to document it. It's nothing you couldn't find...
View ArticleDependency injection strategy discussion
G'day:Our dev department is spread across two campuses: at our head office in Dublin, and the one I'm based at in London.Yesterday (Friday) the London bods had our weekly Dev Team catch-up, to discuss...
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