Category Archives: Programming
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Release Candidate For Mach II Is Now Available
I just noticed that Mach-II 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1 has just been released!
By Sean Corfield
November 12, 2008
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ColdFusion Pros Take A Look At MTV Music Site
People love music and they love movies. So it makes sense that music videos can be pretty popular, too, and it should come as no surprise that a new site called MTV Music has caught the eye of the ColdFusion crowd. Enjoy Metallica? Or maybe Radiohead? Take a moment to …
By Doug Caverly
October 30, 2008
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Adam Lehman’s A Wee Dram Keynote
I said I’d blog more about Adam Lehman’s keynote at A Wee Dram so here it is… Adam talked about the success of CF8 and the huge uptick in the number of developers since 2007 (I forgot to write down the name of the research company that provided that data …
By Sean Corfield
September 30, 2008
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Switching From cfcUnit to MXUnit
As many folks know, I’ve long been an advocate of Paul Kenney’s cfcUnit unit testing framework. I felt it offered the most solid code base and the best all-round feature set in a package that was idiomatic for ColdFusion developers. Unfortunately, the website has not been updated in over 18 …
By Sean Corfield
March 10, 2008
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Kotek’s Transfer Decorator Bean Injector
Brian Kotek has released his Transfer decorator bean injector observer which I’m very excited about because I just needed this functionality for a client’s project and had to write a version myself. Brian’s is more sophisticated and, hopefully, will be integrated into ColdSpring in due course. Now I can use …
By Sean Corfield
January 16, 2008
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Adding Error Handling to Your Application
I’ve done more than a few posts recently about error handling and robust exception information, so I thought I’d write up one entry that can serve as a nice guide for folks to bookmark. By using “Complete” in the title, I’ve also virtually assured that I will forget something critical, …
By Raymond Camden
January 2, 2008
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EXIF Metadata With ColdFusion 8
One example that I’ve been meaning to post is how to get Image Metadata using the Exchangeable Image File Format or EXIF a using ColdFusion 8. It’s actually quite simple, to get a list of all the EXIF tags simply use the ImageGetExifMetaData function. Here’s a quick example: <cfimage action="read" …
By Pete Freitag
October 31, 2007
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Slow Page Reports With ColdFusion 8
Many moons ago, I reported on how you could write a template to parse your server.log file for slow page reports. In case you didn’t know – the ColdFusion Administrator lets you log files that take too long to process. This setting is found in the Logging Settings page as …
By Raymond Camden
September 12, 2007
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FeedBurner CFC
I’ve been using FeedBurner for quite sometime now to host my RSS feeds, and when they bought Blogbeat, I was even happier since Blogbeat was a great blog-stats tool. Now I get both feed and general item stats all from one source. FeedBurner has an API to retrieve information about …
By Raymond Camden
August 27, 2007
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Preselecting A Tab Via The URL In ColdFusion 8
A quick and simple tip – ColdFusion 8 lets you set a default selected tab by using selected=”true” in the tab. Here is a simple example: <cflayout type="tab"> <cflayoutarea title="Tab 1"> <p> This is the first tab. </p> </cflayoutarea> <cflayoutarea title="Tab 2" selected="true"> …
By Raymond Camden
August 8, 2007
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