A Warning - The White Screen of Death with ColdFusion Builder 3
Ok, so I'm loving ColdFusion Builder, but I just lost a few hours of my time to something related to ColdFusion Builder 3 and hopefully no one else makes the same mistake I did. When ColdFusion 11 was...
View ArticleIntergral folks are (still) hiring!
Just a quick update to the Intergral job posting. They are now accepting remote employees as well. Customer Support Engineer Intergral, makers of FusionReactor server monitor, are looking for a...
View ArticleUsing Project Templates in ColdFusion Builder 3
One of the interesting new features in ColdFusion Builder is the new project template system. This lets you create a project with files automatically laid out. Unfortunately, the docs only discuss the...
View ArticleMimicking the GMail Delayed Message Load UX
Before I begin, I want to point out that the title of this blog is far more complex-sounding than what I'm actually going to demonstrate here. GMail has an interesting way to handle large mail...
View ArticleColdFusion 11's new Struct format for JSON (and how to use it in ColdFusion 10)
One of the nicer new features in ColdFusion 11 is a new way to serialize queries to JSON. If you've ever returned a query over the wire to JavaScript, then you are probably aware that ColdFusion has a...
View ArticleSunday OT - STTNG Rewatch Complete!
For the past few years (yes, years), I've been rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I watch it on the treadmill as it is a perfect amount of time for a workout (45 minutes) and is great...
View ArticleColdFusion UI The Right Way - An Update (and Thanks)
Just a quick note to remind folks of the crusadeAdam Cameron and I kicked off a few months ago - ColdFusion UI - The Right Way. The idea was to help ColdFusion developers work with client-side...
View ArticleDownloading ColdFusion Documentation
Just as an FYI, note that you can download ColdFusion documentation here: Downloads. The main download is a rar file of the most recent updates. At the time of this blog post the archive was created...
View ArticleArticle: Working with Intl
Just a quick note that NetTuts has published an article I wrote on working with the Intl class. Enjoy. Working with Intl. Please leave comments about the article there. Please post pictures of kittens...
View ArticleColdFusion 11 Lockdown Guide
The excellent ColdFusion 11 Lockdown Guide has been released. You can view it here (PDF): http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf11/cf11-lockdown-guide.pdf
View ArticleQuick FYI - JSHint for CFBuilder
I'm still using Brackets as my primary editor, but as I use CFBuilder more and more I run into things that I think may be helpful to others. Today - it is adding JSHint support. I'm a huge fan of...
View ArticleSunday OT - New Games
One of the most fun parts of going to cfObjective is hanging out with my game-playing friends. While there I got to play three new games (and quite a few hands of Epic Spell Wars in which I never lost...
View ArticleExample of Password Protected Zips in ColdFusion 11
For a demo that didn't happen, I wrote a quick example of using passwords with cfzip in ColdFusion 11. The idea behind the demo was that the user had asked for a set of files (in this case, a hard...
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Remember tabindex?
A quick tip. I just ran into a form that looked, a bit, like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Demo</title> </head> <body> <form method="post">...
View ArticleImportant note about ColdFusion 11 and CFHTTP
As a quick aside before I begin, multiple people were involved in this research. I thank them all at the end, but I wanted to be sure folks know this was definitely something I got a lot of help on....
View ArticlePhoneGap Tip: Temporarily changing orientation for video in a portrait only...
That's probably the longest title I ever used for a blog post. A PhoneGap user came to me recently with an interesting problem. His application was set to be portrait only. In case you weren't aware,...
View ArticleBrowser slowdown? SVN failing? Read this.
For a few months now, I've experienced an odd issue with Chrome. I'd go to a URL and get nothing but a white screen while something tried to load. Almost always the URL had 'cdn' in it or implied a...
View ArticleCordova 3.5 and the "What's Next" Guide
Over the holiday weekend Cordova 3.5.0 was released. You can read details about the update here: Apache Cordova 3.5.0. Another update was to the documentation, which now includes a What's Next guide...
View ArticleUpdate your bookmarks for the ColdFusion Docs
Some of you may have older bookmarks for the ColdFusion docs. Previously these old bookmarks auto-forwarded to the right address, but I believe that forwarding is no longer working. If you don't have...
View ArticleRelated selects with multiple options
A reader asked me a simple Ajax-y type question this morning and I thought I'd turn it into a simple blog post. We've all done, or at least seen, related selects before. That widget where you select...
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