Running Fusebox No XML with a virtual directory
March 30, 2008
There has been a post on the fusebox forums about a error that occurs when trying to run the XML free implimentation of Fusebox 5.5 from a virtual directory in IIS. The error they are getting is: Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interfa… Read more »
Any Ideas for ColdFusion 9?
March 29, 2008
Jason Delmore, the Product Manager for ColdFusion, has a post on his blog asking for suggestions for what to include in the next version of ColdFusion. It's great to see that Adobe welcome feedback from the community. I've added my thoughts why not a… Read more »
cffeed and gzip compression
March 29, 2008
I've just discovered that the cffeed tag in ColdFusion 8, can't consume RSS feeds that have use gzip compression. You get the error message "Unable to read the source URL. unknown compression method" This is a known bug so I hope that there… Read more »
Excel to ColdFusion Query
March 28, 2008
A client recently supplied some products for their new eCommerce website as an Excel file. ColdFusion 8 doesn't have an Excel data driver, so I needed to find a different way to import the data. Read more »
Set filename when downloading with cfcontent
March 28, 2008
I had a problem where I was forcing the file "01 example.zip" to download using the cfcontent tag. The downloaded file worked fine on Internet Explorer, but Firefox saved the file as "01" with no extension. It is easy to solve, by simply replacing spaces in the filename with an underscore. Read more »
Dynamic do Fusebox circuit.cfc style
March 27, 2008
I was just wondering if there is a difference between calling another fuseaction in a circuit.cfc using the two methods below: Method 1: Call another fuseaction in the same circuit using fusebox's dynamic do <cfset myFusebox.do( action=&qu… Read more »
Create a Random List in ColdFusion
March 26, 2008
This is a way to randomly sort a list in ColdFusion. Read more »
Fusebox powered blog
March 25, 2008
I've finally got round to writing my own blog web app (you're looking at it!). It is built on Fusebox 5.5, using the new implicit cfc based circuits instead of the traditional XML method. Read more »
Getting MS SQL Database size using ColdFusion
March 25, 2008
Someone asked how to retrieve the size of all MS SQL Server databases using Coldfusion. There is a handy built in stored procedure called sp_spaceused which will do the job for you. Read more »
Fusebox 5.5 Application.cfc and webservice bug
March 20, 2008
I just discovered a bug in Fusebox 5.5.1. You can replicate it by downloading the sample application from Fusebox.org. If you create a CFC at the same level as your Application.cfc and call it as a webservice, it fails on line 32 of Fusebox.Applicat… Read more »