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A ColdFusion user asked me for a way to programmatically determine if a URL exists, so I threw together this UDF. It uses to attempt to retrieve a specified URL (not resolving any internal URLs, and not throwing an error upon failure). If an HTTP status code 404 is returned then the UDF returns...
TMCnet has a story on cookie use on the NSA site, and explains that despite hyper and overreaction, the "It's much ado about little". And I quite agree. And buried in the story is a little note that stats that the NSA uses "Adobe ColdFusion to deliver its public Web pages".
I was just on a web site (no, not a ColdFusion powered site, and no I will not name names) browsing for specific content. The URLs used typical name=value query string conventions, and so I changed the value to jump to the page I wanted. And I made a typo and added a character to the numeric value....
Todd Sharp has created Genesis , a ColdFusion MX 7 Flash Forms based database query tool. This is a really nice utility, as well as a pretty cool demonstration of Flash Forms use.
FusionReactor (which I first mentioned a couple of weeks ago ) has been updated, and now supports stack trace even on Java 1.4.2.
MaxNOC has released (under GNU license) Looking Glass , a ColdFusion Components that can perform ping, traceroute, dig, whois, DNS lookups, and more.
Rob Mackenzie wrote to tell me about Underscore Framework , built on Fusebox basics, but enhanced to include natural URLs and simplified configuration files and more. This is based on work that Rob has been using in production systems for about two years, and he recently wrote up documentation and...
Check out the new "got coldfusion?" mugs at ColdFusionGear . Thanks, Will!
Lee Asher (Expert Author) has written a story for WebProNews entitled ColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, At A Price . He seems to have gotten lots of the story right, although not entirely so. He really does not seem to have gotten the ColdFusion/Java relationship, however. And then he makes the...