Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
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 our visitors will use it exactly the way we design it every time … Read more
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 pass any number of values into ColdSpring to be used in configuring those … Read more
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, I essentially had CFCs that were collections of UDFs. Before long, after … Read more
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 to get this working was actually 3-fold: Learn more about how … Read more
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 as well. I’m trying to determine if this configuration is better for … Read more
For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a project that uses the Mach II, ColdSpring and Transfer frameworks for ColdFusion. This is my first “real” project using Transfer and, I have to say, I’m supremely impressed with the thought and work put into the framework by Mark Mandel. It seems every time that … Read more
I am working on a project for a client that is running ColdFusion MX7 on their servers and ran into a situation today where a search feature that worked perfectly in my local development environment (which, admittedly is running CF 8) produced some very inconsistent results when run on the testing server. This particular search … Read more
I want to take a quick few minutes and thank Bob Flynn and the rest of the team for putting on such a wonderful conference. I would have written this last night but, honestly, my brain was mush after driving home. The entire thing was superbly organized, the facilities were absolutely top-notch, and the tracks … Read more
I’m going to interrupt my series of posts on my local development environment with a quick post on how to add your own tools to the ColdFusion administrative web application. This is probably old news to some people, but I just had a chance to play with this a couple days ago while checking out … Read more
I sometimes have to remind myself what a useful tool the debugger that’s built into ColdFusion 8 is. Today I was debugging a fairly involved process that I’ve been writing that uses several CFCs including on CFC that contains methods to apply all the business rules to the particular process. I had a couple of … Read more