CFML

My personal #1 bug fix in ColdFusion 9.0.1 is in the Admin API

by kai 16/07/2010

That might sound weird to everyone looking at the awesome list of new stuff in the ColdFusion 9.0.1 updater that Adobe has released just this week. But let me tell you what it that #1 bug fix is and why it makes the life of my clients so much easier.

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Flex 4 for ColdFusion developers (and others) at cf.Objective(ANZ)

by kai 16/07/2010

cf.Objective(ANZ) 2010 will for the first time offer full-day workshops on the day before the actual conference. I’m going to offer a full-day training titled “Flex 4 for ColdFusion developers”. Unlike other Flex 4 one-day training or introductions, this one will focus on the special needs of CF folks either coming new into Flex or wanting to learn more about the specifics of integrating Flex apps with ColdFusion.

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ColdFusion 9.0.1 – yay!

by kai 14/07/2010

This morning, Adobe has released an update for ColdFusion 9 – ColdFusion 9.0.1. I’m very happy about the final release of the updater 1 as it doesn’t just contain a lot of bug fixes but also whole bunch of new and/or improved features.

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cf.Objective(ANZ) 2010 – some speakers, some sessions (and a registration system)

by kai 09/07/2010

You might have heard that our antipodean version of cf.Objective – coincidentally named cf.Objective(ANZ) – is coming back again in 2010. After the very successful first run in 2009, we’re going to be back to Melbourne on November 18 & 19, 2010 for two days on advanced CF content, networking with attendees and presenters from all over the world.

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ColdFusion Builder, file encodings and i18n

by kai 25/04/2010

Some people complain about ColdFusion Builder being not able to properly deal with special characters and different character encodings. It’s actually not true – this post shows how to.

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How much memory does my ColdFusion variable really use? – Part III

by kai 10/03/2010

Finally, nearly the last part (there’s one more coming…). In part II I talked about the different problems we’d run into using the instrumentation code out-of-the-box without modifying it for the special scenario of using it to size ColdFusion variables

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How much memory does my ColdFusion variable really use? – Part I

by kai 07/03/2010

Recently I’ve been dealing quite a bit with ColdFusion from an infrastructure point of view – clustering, monitoring, system tuning etc. One particular thing I (and I know of at least some others) have found missing was an easy to use and realistic way of figuring out how much memory a particular ColdFusion variable really uses.

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ParameterExists => isDefined

by marcus 06/02/2010

Another quick regex: to perform a sitewide search/replace that replaces every “parameterExists” by “isDefined”…

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cfqueryparam / regular expression

by marcus 06/02/2010

Currently, I’m migrating a CF5/Win project to CFMX9/Linux. Apart from the usual path issues, the one who programmed this app yeeears ago did not protect *any single* form- or url-variable inside CFQUERY against misuse or even SQL-Injection. Not one syntax check, no CFQUERYPARAM… *sigh*

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Breaking news: Railo to open source… Railo!!!!

by kai 05/06/2008

In about 5 minutes, the Swiss company Railo is going to announce the open-sourcing of their alternative ColdFusion/CFML engine Railo. Hang on, one might think – didn’t we have that just a few months ago with Open BlueDragon? Sort of, but this time the impact of the anouncement might be significantly different. The reason is, […]

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