212 untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs
G'day:I saw this on Twitter last night, and - predictably - it f***ed me right off.From: James Moberg @gamesoverTo: @Adobe@coldfusionI want to upgrade to #ColdFusion 10, but not if issues exist &...
View ArticleRuby via codeschool.com
G'day:Cheers to Ray Camden for putting me on to this, but Code School are offering free online training all weekend, thanks to some outfit called New Relic sponsoring it. Yay for Code School & new...
View ArticleRuby: stream-of-consciousness
G'day:OK, so I'm fiddling around with Ruby (as per my previous post), and am typing this article as I explore.Prior to starting this I googled "ruby IDE", and saw a lot of advice from people to just...
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Ruby: doing a second tutorial @ codeschool.com
G'day:OK, I'm coffee`d up and am gonna do the next Ruby tutorial. Yesterday I did "Try Ruby", and now I'm on the second leg of the Ruby path "Ruby Bits". As a recap: I'm suddenly doing these Ruby...
View ArticleScotch on the Rocks: which sessions am I going to?
G'day:Meself and a bunch of the bods from work are off up to Edinburgh for Scotch on the Rocks 2013 next Weds. I should be lurking about from about 2pm, I guess.I've not even looked at the schedule...
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Application.cfc look-ups and linked directories
G'day:This is a pretty non-descript topic / article, sorry. Someone raised a question on the Adobe ColdFusion forums about the possibility of CF10 not getting along well with Application.cfc look-ups...
View ArticleAppendix: Application.cfc look-ups and virtual directories
G'day:Yesterday I did a bit of an investigation in to how ColdFusion looks for an Application.cfc / .cfm when it runs a request. This article is a continuation of that, and it won't make any sense if...
View ArticleColdFusion / Railo WebSockets: do you use 'em? (survey)
G'day:I've just started looking at the technical side of the WebSocket offering in ColdFusion 10. It's an interesting-looking technology, but I'm just wondering what real world practical applications...
View ArticlePassing a complex object to a ColdFusion RESTful web service
G'day:I googled everywhere for how to do this, and drew a complete blank. I had to fall on the mercy of a friendly Adobe engineer to help me get it working, so I thought I would knock together a quick...
View ArticleCensorship on Adobe ColdFusion forums - Open letter to the management of the...
Open letter to the management of the Adobe ColdFusion forums(I do not know how to contact you, but I will try to find out and send this to you directly as well, as a courtesy).Hi.I am a veteran user of...
View ArticleCensorship on Adobe ColdFusion forums etc: follow-up from Adobe
G'day: This is a follow-up to my post the other day about Adobe censoring a thread I was involved in on their ColdFusion forums. I've had a response from Madison Murphy from Adobe. Madison has been...
View ArticleColdFusion / Railo WebSockets survey results
G'day:I didn't get much interest in the "ColdFusion / Railo WebSockets: do you use 'em?" survey as mentioned in my article the other day. Not to worry. I think that speaks for itself in a way: plenty...
View ArticleCensorship on Adobe ColdFusion forums etc: resolved
G'day:This is the final chapter in the ongoing story which started with an Adobe forum moderator making some questionable censorship decisions on a form thread I was trying to help on, and continued as...
View ArticleScotch on the Rocks: recap
G'day:I didn't do a daily update of SotR like I did at cf.Objective(), instead sending Twitter updates in "real time" as things occurred to me. So if you want to know my general thoughts of the...
View ArticleWhat do I want to see in ColdFusion 11?
G'day:I'm suffering a bit from motivation paralysis at the moment... I'm not suffering writer's block: if anything the opposite, I've got about a dozen articles on the go at the moment. Or maybe that...
View ArticleFollow-up to "212 untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs"
G'day:I found myself discussing the mountain of untriaged ColdFusion 10 bugs again just now, and thought I might check out if any progress has been made on them. The good news is that the list is down...
View ArticleA list of things I am not researching
G'day:All of these things I am not investigating:PHP, despite it being a positive career move for me (strange, but true);Groovy & Grails despite Scott's brilliant presentation on the two;Angular.js...
View ArticleFloating point bum-biting
G'day:I'll get back to bitching about ColdFusion 9's JSON shortcomings tomorrow. In the mean time, here's some "surprising" floating point inaccuracy weirdness. Well: it's predictable rather than...
View ArticleSecurity warning: stop using ColdFusion web sockets right now
G'day:This is a bit irresponsible of me as I do agree that promulgating security issues is less than ideal... but this is already on Stack Overflow, so it's perhaps best to get it out there as much as...
View ArticleFloating point bum-biting: Railo version (OpenBD just errored)
G'dayJust FYI (and because someone asked), these are the results of the code I used for last night's article on some floating point weirdness, when run on Railo. Code:<cfoutput><cfif...
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