JSON Case Issue between CF8 and CF9
January 29, 2010
I wrote a quick demo for Devon CFUG this week to demonstrate using jQuery, AJAX and ColdFusion together to build a simple "find as you type" search feature. However it turns out that ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 return slightly different JSON. Read more »
Validate CKEditor content length
January 29, 2010
I was adding CKEditor to a site and wanted to be able to validate that the user had entered some copy into the editor when the form was submitted. Read more »
By value and by ref with nested data types
January 29, 2010
Andy posted comment on my previous post Passing values by reference or value, where he asked what happens if you have an array inside a struct. I thought the easiest way to explain is to post some sample code and output, so here it is. Read more »
Passing values by reference or value
January 27, 2010
This has been posted many time before, but it still catches me out every now and then, so here is a quick reminder of how Coldfusion passes arrays by value but structs, queries and objects by reference. Read more »
My Community Heroes!
January 19, 2010
Recently the list of Adobe Certified Professionals for 2010 was published. It is great to see some new names, particularly those from the UK, on there along with the existing ACPs. However I wanted to acknowledge some members of the community who have been a real help to me personally whom aren't featured on the list. Read more »
Filtered Project Views in ColdFusion Builder
December 24, 2009
Eclipse and ColdFusion Builder allow you to create "Working Sets", which essentially are filtered views of projects in your workspace. Read more »
Using in-built function names for your methods
December 24, 2009
ColdFusion 9 lets you use methods with the same name as in-built ColdFusion Methods. Read more »
Sorting with jQuery, saving with ColdFusion
December 19, 2009
Using jQuery with ColdFusion to reorder a list and save the new positions each time an item is moved. Read more »
Using Brian Kotek's FormUtilities CFC with ColdBox 3
December 15, 2009
I've been playing around with ColdBox 3 beta for a while now and decided I wanted to have an interceptor which utilises Brian Kotek's excellent FormUtilities CFC. Read more »
A First Look at MightyMock
November 27, 2009
MightyMock is a mock framework to help you unit test your applications. I'm using it with MXunit, but you should be able to use it with any Unit Testing framework. So why do you need it? Read more »