Upgrade ColdFusion JDK on Windows

February 27, 2009

I know this has been blogged before, but for my own reference I wanted to post it. I'm working on a site that uses a lot of cfcs and the start up time is painfully slow so I decided to upgrade the JDK. ColdFusion 8.0.1 ships with 1.6.0_04 which has a known class loader bug which was fixed in JDK 1.6.0_10. Read more »

OOP Presentation - Part 1

February 26, 2009

Last night I started what I hope will be an ongoing series of presentations for Devon CFUG on beginning OOP. I've created a new section for presentations on my website which I intend to update with new material when I present it. Read more »

Consuming XML in Flex

February 17, 2009

I've been taking my first baby steps in the word of Flex and wanted to try building a Flex front end to a quiz that consumed a webservice which returns XML. Read more »

remote cfc calls and this.mappings

February 13, 2009

I've recently started looking at the remote proxies feature of ColdSpring and found that you can't use this.mappings with remote cfc calls. Read more »

Fusebox NOXML permissions

February 04, 2009

One of things I miss about the XML approach is the permissions attribute for circuit and fuseaction. Has anyone come up with an equivalent in Circuit as CFC? My solution is to use MetaData, so you would do something like: Read more »

Inheritance with Transfer

February 03, 2009

Bob Silverberg and Paul Marcotte have come up with a solution, but I felt that my needs were different so went down a different root. Now before I go any further I should point out that I'm quite new to Transfer and not in the same league as Bob and Paul, but, disclaimer over, this is what I came up with. Read more »