Cumulative Hotfix 1 (CHF1) for ColdFusion 9.0.1
September 01, 2010
Lots of people have blogged about the Cumulative Hotfix 1 (CHF1) for ColdFusion 9.0.1 already, but I thought I would as well as two of the fixes were issues that I blogged about. Read more »
View HQL in your ColdFusion debugging info
August 20, 2010
I just tried out the new to CF9.01, ability to write HQL statements in a cfquery tag and found that if you have ColdFusion debugging turned on, then you actually get the HQL outputted. Read more »
Coldbox environments using machine name
August 11, 2010
ColdBox 3 has reached M6 and has some really nice improvements over ColdBox 2.6. One of my favourite features is the environment interceptor. Being able to define different settings per environment is not new to Coldbox, but with the new cfc based config it's even easier. Read more »
CF9.01 preUpdate fires twice
August 02, 2010
Since installing the ColdFusion 9.01 updater for ColdFusion 9.0, I've noticed a few quirks. It seems that the ORM event handler now fires the preUpdate method twice when updating a persistent entity. Read more »
cfmailparam behaviour change in CF9.01
July 30, 2010
Since upgrading a server from ColdFusion 8.01 to ColdFusion 9.01 I noticed that files attached to an email using cfmailparam were disappearing off my filesystem, when previously this hadn't happened. So I wrote a quick test to prove that the behaviour had changed. Read more »
Quick and easy performance gains!
July 26, 2010
In my last post I talked about tuning the JVM that ColdFusion runs on to get better performance. However the tuning doesn't stop there, by improving legacy/3rd party code you can make significant gains. Read more »
Tuning the JVM
July 26, 2010
One of the great things about ColdFusion is that it runs on a JVM and as such means that it has a whole bunch of options we can use to tune it to increase performance. The bad thing about ColdFusion is that it runs on a JVM and as such means that it has a whole bunch of options we can use to bring your server to it's knees! Read more »
ORM Sample Blog Updated to CF9.01
July 21, 2010
The port I did of Mark Mandel's tBlog to hibernate ORM has now been updated to include some CF9.01 goodies. Read more »
Composition over inheritance with ColdBox 3
July 19, 2010
ColdBox 3 has a cunning trick up it's sleeve that allows you to "bootstrap" ColdBox to your application and therefore allow per-application mapping to the ColdBox directory, that is a sub-folder inside my application folder. There is more information on the ColdBox wiki, but there isn't an example of what the Application.cfc looks like. So here is one I created using the excellent ColdFusion Build ColdBox exten Read more »
Custom ValidateThis Result
June 28, 2010
The talented Bob Silverberg released version 0.95 of his validation framework; ValidateThis. I wanted to blog about one of the cool new features that Bob added, which is the ability to add your own custom result object. Read more »