Devon CFUG - we're official!
April 30, 2008
Just had an email from Adobe to tell me that the Devon CFUG, that I have been setting up here in the South West of England has been official listed on the Adobe site. If anyone is interested in joining then please ping me or check out the website www… Read more »
cflogin or home brew security
April 29, 2008
I've always used my own "home brew" version of security for my web applications instead of the native cflogin functionality, mainly due to the fact that prior to version 8 of ColdFusion, you only had the restrictive IsUserInRole() function.… Read more »
Additional parameters for Fusebox 5.5, event.xfa()
April 29, 2008
This is documented in the Fusebox 5.5 release notes, but if like me you've forgot it then to add additional parameters to an Xfa just do this: <cfset event.xfa("next","main.home","message","Thank you!") /… Read more »
ClearCode Standards in practice
April 26, 2008
I've just watched Ben Nadel's thought provoking presentation on Code Standards. I've always been a fan of standards, Ben takes this further and talks about how the eye and brain process the code on the screen. As a result I thought I'd try comparing … Read more »
Free CF 8 book chapters
April 25, 2008
I've recently started reading the Adobe ColdFusion 8 Advanced Application Development web application construction kit Volume 3 and discovered that Chapters 41-54 and Appendixes C and D (a total of 550 pages) from Volume 2 are available to download a… Read more »
Friday afternoon...
April 25, 2008
One of the designers that I work with (mentioning no names Mr A Beer) decided that he had far too much free time and photoshopped me... Read more »
Set default password in Fusebox reload Firefox extension
April 25, 2008
Just a quick post to say that Stephen Judd has just updated the Fusebox reload Firefox extension so that you can set the default password. To quote Steve: I've upgraded the addon to version .11 Now, the default password upon installation is … Read more »
Solve the "Could not find the ColdFusion Component" issue
April 24, 2008
I'm sure someone has posted this before but for my own reference (or anyone who doesn't know)! If you want to be able to create a CFC from a template that needs you to navigate up the directory tree then you can't because of the dot notation that Co… Read more »
Fusebox 5 Reload extension has moved
April 24, 2008
The Fusebox 5 Reload extension for Firefox by Stephen Judd has moved to the official Firefox Add-ons site. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6664 If you use Fusebox then you really need to get the Fusebox 5 Reload extension for Firefox… Read more »
ColdFusion on Wheels 0.7 released
April 23, 2008
CFWheels, the ColdFusion framework inspired by Ruby on Wheels has just reached version 0.7. I've just been reading the docs and really like some of the features it has. It is an MVC framework and as with all frameworks it has it's strengths and weakn… Read more »