Get a memento of a Entity's data
March 16, 2010
A question was asked on the cf-orm mailing list about getting the data from a persisted Entity (CFC) as JSON. Read more »
Use an application wide error handler
February 18, 2010
've been working on a application that another developer wrote and have been posting my tweaks, this time I've added a application wide error handler which notifies me of errors. Read more »
Lightwire XML placeholder bug
February 18, 2010
I'm pretty sure I've found a bug in this is a bug in Lightwire when you configure it using an XML bean definition with placeholders. Read more »
argumentCollection - learn it and love it!
February 16, 2010
I'm posting this in case other developers aren't aware of what you can do. Last time I blogged about per-application mappings, this time it is the turn of the argumentCollection parameter! Read more »
Per-Application Mappings
February 15, 2010
This is nothing new, but I was reviewing some code the other day and noticed that the developer hadn't used per-application mappings introduced in ColdFusion 8 so thought I'd blog about them in-case it is useful to other people. Read more »
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 »