Per a suggestion from Steve Bryant, today is “How I Got Started in ColdFusion” day. I've read a couple of other's posts already, including the awesome Ray Camden's, Adam Tuttle (who made me feel so old LOL), all around nice guy Ben Nadel, and guru of ColdFusion performance Mike Brunt. […]
I work with both MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS. Given the choice, I'll use PostgreSQL over MySQL 99% of the time. MySQL has its benefits, don't get my wrong, but overall I find PostgreSQL to be the more mature DBMS. One of my greatest annoyances with MySQL is that it does […]
I posted the other day about a fun bug with ColdFusion's query of a queries randomly deciding that a value was “like” NULL. Well, I also discovered that when you use LIKE in Query of a Query, the text comparison is case sensitive. This follows what some RDBMS, like PostgreSQL, […]
Today I discovered a seemingly little discussed bug in ColdFusion when it comes to performing a query of a query, and using the LIKE keyword on a text field. In my case, I was running a query against a larger query matching on the trimmed email address. Despite clearly seeing […]
Two issue we ran into while building our first hefty application using Mach-II dealt with the config file. Every time we would commit our days' work into SVN, whoever committed second got to play conflict resolution with the config file, because it really is just one place that all work […]
The folks at CFUnited, the only major ColdFusion conference we have, announced today that this year's event, being held next month, will be the last. Citing the economy, they have extended the early bird pricing for the last shebang until July 15th, and state that it will go out with […]
After attending CFUnited 2009, my coworker and I came back with a few thoughts, including that we were way behind the CF community in our development and that it was time to explore and start utilizing frameworks. The presenters did a great job selling us on the idea that using […]
When ColdFusion 8 came out, there was tons of oohs, ahhs, and OMG must have that over the new features and goodies. It was one serious upgrade, with some fifty or more new tags and functions introduced. Developers eagerly looked to learn more about the new CFIMAGE tags (awesomeness, to […]
Finishing up our ColdFusion 8 Advanced training, based on Adobe's session 10, we look into Application scalability and finding bottlenecks. We then looked at how to use query and template caching and threading to address some of these performance issues. This session was first conducted on October 29, 2009 and […]
For our next to the last session of the Advanced training, we looked at generating PDFs on the fly with , then explored several new tags and functions that were introduced in ColdFusion 8: , , and , along with their related child tags, and the new 50+ strong image […]