OOP Terminology : Part IV - Scopes
September 09, 2008
When you create CFCs you need to be careful that you don't expose more data than you need to. When you create a CFC you need to be aware of the different scopes available. This is an overview of the three types. Read more »
Use Subqueries - they are fast!
September 05, 2008
Using SQL subqueries can give your huge performance gain over manipulating recordsets with ColdFusion. Read more »
New Coldfusion Resources Resource
September 03, 2008
Charlie Arehart has put together a comprehensive resources for all things ColdFusion at www.cf411.com Read more »
A Wee Dram of Scotch
September 02, 2008
Just in case anyone has missed this news, CFDevcon has been cancelled, but the guys from Scotch on the Rocks have managed to put together (at incredibly short notice) A Wee Dram of Scotch. Read more »
List Apache Virtual Hosts
September 02, 2008
Just a quick post with a handy bit of code I write this morning to list all the virtual hosts you've got defined in your Apache conf file. This lets you build a menu of all the running sites on your Apache server. Read more »
Setting up a Virtual Host with Apache
August 28, 2008
This is a follow up to my ColdFusion 8 and Apache on Windows XP post, showing how to set up multiple sites on your local server. Read more »
DataMgr Overview
August 22, 2008
Steve Bryant was kind enough to present DataMgr to Devon CFUG this week. I thought I'd try and do Steve's presentation justice by giving a quick overview of what was covered and the areas/features that got the most attention. This is not meant to be an exhaustive feature list of what DataMgr can do it is just the features that appealed most to our group. Read more »
String Concatenation performance test
August 19, 2008
I recently needed to some string concatenation with some large strings, which is notoriously slow in ColdFusion, so I thought I run some tests to compare performance of various ways to do it. Read more »
XMLSearch supports the contains string function of XPath
August 18, 2008
ColdFusion 8 added improved support XPath expressions. I've just discovered that you can now use the contains string function of XPath with XmlSearch! Read more »
Ben Nadel's POI Utility
August 13, 2008
I decided to try out Ben Nadel's POI Utility to import an Excel spreadsheet with 4000+ rows and 20+ columns. I couldn't be bothered to type them all the columns in so I made a simple modification to the script and now it lists all the columns for me. Read more »