Monitoring ColdFusion Servers
December 23, 2008
Proper monitoring of you ColdFusion servers is important, sure you can use the monitor in ColdFusion Enterprise but this is next to useless when ColdFusion grinds to a halt. Read more »
Transfer and IBO
December 17, 2008
When I first started out learning OO I couldn't understand why a lot of people seemed to return a query object from their gateway when they are dealing with multiple records. The ColdFusion query object is a really nice feature of ColdFusion but it just doesn't fit in with my concept of OO. Read more »
Using Transfer's MetaData to construct queries
December 15, 2008
Thanks to Bob Silverberg's excellent series of posts on How I use Transfer, I've refined how my model is constructed by taking his ideas and modifying them to suit my own style. One of the things I wanted to be able to do with transfer is set up a basic search in my abstract Gateway (which I can override in my concrete gateway if I need to). Read more »
Transfer ORM Cheat Sheet
December 09, 2008
A little quick start guide I've put together for Transfer ORM Read more »
My OO form validation
December 05, 2008
One of the most common tasks that you'll do when building web applications is capturing data from a form. This is fairly straight forward if we go down the procedural root(although rather tedious task), but how do we do it when we want to be Object Orientated? Well, this is my approach. Read more »
FAQU Volume 3 Issue 1 Out Now!
November 14, 2008
Hot off the presses is the latest edition of Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (FAQU). I've just downloaded my PDF copy and had a virtual flick through. Read more »
Installing SQL Server 2008 Express
November 12, 2008
Installing SQL Server 2008 Express - you'd think it would be simple, but you'd be wrong! here are the steps you will need to go through (on Windows XP at least!) Read more »
New getFieldLengths method for DataMgr
October 28, 2008
Steve Bryant has release DataMgr 2.2 Beta recently, which includes several new features and enhancements. One of the new features is getFieldLengths(). So what is this method for? Read more »
Maximum list values for cfqueryparam
October 22, 2008
I've just managed to get ColdFusion 8 to blow up MS SQL Server 2000! This is the error message I was getting: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver] The DBMS returned an unspecified error. The command code was 0. Read more »
European and US formatted currency
October 20, 2008
Here's a question that I've just answered over on the CF Adobe forums. I'm sure there is a neater (pure CF) solution. Read more »