You may recall that back in February I posted about some issues we were having with creating spreadsheets using CFSPREADSHEET and formatting not applying when dealing with multiple sheets. Apparently this is only an issue when building a multi-sheet workbook using ColdFusion tags! You see, in the same application that we […]
On September 3rd, Peter Farrell announced that the team behind the Mach-II ColdFusion framework (himself, Matt Williams and Kurt Wiersma) will no longer be working on or supporting the framework. With a 10 year run, those who initially made it and kept going have much to be proud of. When […]
While working on a site recently, I wanted to pull some data from an RSS feed to load into a page. A pretty simple thing to do, thanks to ColdFusion's lovely CFFEED tag. I mean what more can you ask for – one line of code turns any RSS feed […]
For one of our current projects, we're building a "contact list" feature, i.e. a way for users to pull up lists of persons in the system. They have a choice of stock lists and can build their own custom lists. I might try to blackm persuade my partner to do […]
In one of our applications, we have a couple of “core views”, i.e. view stuff that is used in a couple different places, so we have it in one tidy CFM for easier maintenance. For most of them, the content coming in is the same or similar in nature, however […]
I like ColdFusion's structs, they are simple and easy to use/reference, work great for transporting bits of related data, and names are so much easier to reference than numbers. 😉 We use them in all of our applications for returning result messages and the like. Never really had any issues […]
The addition of the CFSPREADSHEET and all the SpreadSheet functions to ColdFusion 9 was an awesome thing. We have so many apps where clients want an Excel sheet and for whom a CVS is a foreign language. Before CF 9, we used POI to build our spreadsheets, and it worked […]
In the course of developing a good, secure, well functioning web application, you will inevitable spend quite a few lines of codes validating input so that you know it's meeting whatever business rules/logic may apply. ColdFusion has quite a few functions to help with validations, including the IsValid function, which […]
Recently we had a scare at work, and were told that we will lose our jobs very soon. Fortunately it was a false alarm but still we lived 24 hours without fear. The same week I had a younger person I knew ask me what I thought about web development […]
If you're blessed (or rich) enough to have your own servers, using frameworks like Mach-II is pretty easy. Pop it on the server, do a mapping, good to go for all your sites. In a shared hosting environment, however, you will find there are some quirks and gotchas to using […]