Am I being bullied? Or am I a bully? I'm definitely being a Big Meany again
G'day:Just a quick one.Michael Smith has been doing the hard work with the annual "State of the CF Union Survey 2016". Go fill it in if you're a CFML dev and haven't done so yet. Michael has posted...
View ArticleLucee 5: Platform modularity in CFML
G'day:I had a long (and often protracted) conversation with Denny - who seems to do some work on the Lucee project, but I really don't quite get where he fits into things - and later in the piece...
View ArticleColdFusion: a list of tickets I'm awaiting an update on
G'day:This is just gonna be a list of ColdFusion tickets I've raised, which are currently marked "to fix" but have no indication of in which release they're gonna be fixed. As the ColdFusion 2016...
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ColdFusion: how not to document a function
G'day:We've finally nailed down an Adobe ColdFusion Team member on the #documentation sub-channel of the CFML slack channel. So if you have issues with the documentation, post there, and direct it to...
View ArticleColdFusion: help with clarifying if an issue exists with CF's ORM implementation
G'day:If you know something about Hibernate and/or using ColdFusion's wrapper around same, perhaps you could cast your analytical eye over this, and help determine whether Mingo has - as it seems -...
View ArticleTeraTech's State of the CF Union Survey 2016
G'day:We're trying to drum up more submissions to TeraTech's State of the CF Union Survey 2016. That's a link to their blog article about it, and the survey itself is here.As well as making sure you...
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Brave users will not be able to access this blog
G'day:I am fundamentally opposed to any software which - as its missions statement, basically - censors a website's choice of content. Even if it's just the ads they choose to display:It is not the...
View ArticleCFML (or probably LuceeLang) and what constitutes "The Truth"
G'day:This all stems from a Jira ticket for Lucee: "Redefining truthy and falsey values (LDEV-449)". The way the ticket is worded means it's not convenient to copy and paste a chunk of its detail to...
View ArticleAppendix to previous article: Python examples of truthy/falsy
G'day:All code and no narrative, this one. Here's the Python 3 equivalent of the Groovy code from the previous article (CFML (or probably LuceeLang) and what constitutes "The Truth").print("none")if...
View Article"Adam Cameron is kind of a twat"
G'day:I know it's puerile of me to revel in such things, but this made me laugh: "Adam Cameron is kind of a twat."It is, of course, completely true.Well done, "TimDuncanTheAlmighty". Well done.Righto....
View ArticleColdFusion 2016: Adobe finally abandons CFML
G'day:I should have suffixed that with "for all intents and purposes".Today ColdFusion 2016 was released. My executive summary of this release is that it's by far the worst ColdFusion release since...
View ArticleA more professional CFML blog: Ryan Guill
G'day:(more professional than this one, I mean ;-)Good news, CFML community: Ryan Guill has started blogging. It's @ http://ryanguill.com/.He's off to a flying start with eight articles already:Find...
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ColdFusion 201610.5.1: first attempt at installing...
G'day:So I decided to bite the bullet, install that stupid Akamai download manager (in 2016, seriously?) and grabbed the ColdFusion 201610.5.1 trial.Most of the way through the install process, I get...
View ArticleColdFusion 2016: floor()
G'day:OK, so there's a coupla other uninteresting features in ColdFusion 2016 which I'll look at. The first one is in response to a ticket John Whish raised a while back: Deprecate `int` in favour of...
View ArticleColdFusion 2016: trying to write about one thing; end up writing about another
G'day:I was gonna do an article about ColdFusion 2016's new query iteration functions, but my fondness for using Maori as my sample data language has pointed me in the direction of a possible bug in...
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ColdFusion 2016: query iteration functions
G'day:In ColdFusion 11, one of the best new features was the addition of collection iteration methods, ie stuff like Array.map(), Struct.each(), List.listReduce() etc. One glaring omission was the lack...
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ColdFusion 2016: half-arse`d-ness from Adobe on a potentially handy feature
G'day:This'll be a lot quicker than I anticipated, given Adobe haven't actually bothered to implement most of the given feature.Back in the ColdFusion 10 era, I raised 3597432...
View ArticleColdFusion 2016: the slipshoddiness from Adobe continues with ordered structs
G'day:Hopefully "slipshoddiness" with keep Ron Stewart amused.However no-one should be amused by any of this ColdFusion 2016 bullsh!t, which continues to be beta-quality the more of it I look at.OK, so...
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ColdFusion 2016: critical regression in scoping
G'day:Thanks to Mingo Hagen for inspiring me today. He brought this to my attention on the CFML Slack channel (all the more reason to subscribe to that, btw... to catch stuff like this).ColdFusion 2016...
View ArticleYou need to consider the ColdFusion 2016 release as a public beta
G'day:I've been looking at what Adobe has released as ColdFusion 2016 over the last few days, and I can only conclude that it's really only "first public beta" quality. I figure it's worth making this...
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