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Reason for the Silence

Wowzers! It’s been 10 months since I create a post on my blog! There is a good reason for that, I promise. I’m obviously not a prolific blogger

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How I got started in ColdFusion

A tale of my journey into web development and the ColdFusion ecosystem.

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Automatically Encrypting and Decrypting Data with ColdFusion ORM and Annotations

I'm writing an application that uses ColdFusion's ORM features heavily. Various fields in my database deal with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and need to be encrypted to meet regulatory requirements.

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Adding ModelGlue's Event API to ColdFusion Builder's Code Insight

For the last year or so, all of my ColdFusion development projects have been built using the Model-Glue MVC framework. Over time, you get to where you know the most

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Converting One Company to CFML Using an OSS CFML engine

There have been some lively discussions on Twitter today centered around the adoption of open source CFML engines in various types of businesses. I can't speak to any kind of

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Dynamically Set ColdFusion ORM Datasource

I'm a relative novice using ColdFusion's ORM features having done just one "real" project so far that took advantage of it. I'm working on an application that needs to be able to set the datasource for each request based on the URL that the

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Returning ColdFusion 9 ORM Objects with JSON

Last week I was working on a client's project that makes heavy use of ColdFusion 9's ORM features. Everything we'd done with ORM up to that point had been going really well and I continue to be impressed by the amount of time ORM

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Embracing "New" in ColdFusion 9

I'm not sure how I missed this before but among the long list of things added to ColdFusion 9 is the ability to create a CFC using the "New" syntax. Up until now, to create a new object from a CFC we'd use the

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My ColdFusion Anniversary

Well, not quite yet, but since I’m going to be out of pocket the next several days, I wanted to put this out now. Monday, March 22 will mark 10 years since I began my “journey” with ColdFusion. That day in 2000 was

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Be Careful With the ‘local’ Scope When Migrating from CF8 to CF9

One of the really nice “fixes” included in ColdFusion 9 from a developer’s perspective is the inclusion of an implicit “local” variable scope into which variables created within the body of a <cffunction> tag are placed by default. Previously, developers had

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jQuery Head-Scratcher and Lesson Learned

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m working on a pet project in my spare time. It uses jQuery in various places including in the site design template that I purchased to use with the site. The template uses jQuery to expand

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ColdFusion 9 Caching Settings to Watch Out For

Like a lot of developers, I’ve got this pet project I’m working on in whatever spare time I can find between client engagements, home maintenance, family obligations, etc. I’m using it as an opportunity to work with some of the new

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Going Beyond CFPDF with iText

This week I was working on a proof-of-concept for a customer in which we wanted to extract attachments from a fillable PDF form after its submission. After trying the usual CFPDF tags, reading the documentation, and getting nowhere, we decided to try to attempt

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Registration for ColdFusion in North Carolina 2009 Conference Now Open

Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the

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I’m Presenting at the CF in NC Conference in October

I am super excited to announce that I’ve been selected to present a session at the CF in NC conference in Raleigh, NC in October. This will be my first time presenting to a conference setting and I am really looking forward to

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Followup to my CFMeetup Development Environment Presentation

Last week I gave a presentation to the CFMeetup group showing how I use Eclipse and Tomcat to develop CFML applications across any of the current CFML engines (if you missed it and are interested, here is the link to the [meeting recording][1]

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Using the New HTMLHelperProperty in MachII 1.8

I ran into a situation this week while working on a MachII project I’m doing with my brother that I’m sure many of you have encountered before. We have our view pages broken up into small chunks that we render inside a

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ModelGlue 3: First Impressions from an MG Newbie

For the last 5 weeks, I’ve been working on a proof-of-concept application for a client using ModelGlue Gesture. This was my first “real” experience with ModelGlue. My only other exposure to ModelGlue came from watching a Breeze (as it was called then) session

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What I’ve Learned: MVC Frameworks are Worth It

Most of us that have been around programming for a while have heard the arguments for separating content and layout in our applications numerous times. Likewise, most of us have nodded our heads and generally acknowledged that it’s a “good idea” or something

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Configure FusionDebug 3 Beta for Use with Railo 3.1 on Tomcat

For the past couple of months, I’ve been running my CFML server engines (yes engines, plural) on top of Tomcat on my local development environment. This offers me, as an independent developer that works on a number of different client projects, a great

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Standardizing HTML Forms With the cfUniForm Custom Tag Library

As web developers one of the most frequent things we’re tasked with building is some sort of form to capture data from our visitors. As we’ve all learned (some of us the hard way), putting a form out there and trusting that

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Making Configuration Even Easier with ColdSpring’s Hidden Gems

In my last post, we went through a brief introduction of ColdSpring and how you can use it to make configuring your application’s objects much easier. We discussed how objects (beans) are declared in ColdSpring’s XML configuration file and how you can

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ColdSpring: An Answer to a Problem You May Not Know You Have

Over the last two years or so I’ve been working hard to really “get” object-oriented programming as it applies to ColdFusion development. Like a lot of ColdFusion developers that have been around a while, when I started trying to create applications using CFCs,

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Configuring ColdFusion Applications on Tomcat with Apache Web Server

In my last post I mentioned that I had been toying around with using Tomcat as the only servlet container to deploy all my ColdFusion applications to, regardless of what ColdFusion engine you needed to use for a specific project. My goal in trying

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To .WAR or Not to .WAR?

A week or so ago, Matt Woodward posted a blog entry detailing how to install Railo and Open BlueDragon on Tomcat. Since then I’ve been experimenting with installing not only Railo and Open BlueDragon into Tomcat, but Adobe ColdFusion 8 and MX 7

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