Arguments (parameters) passed to (for UDFs and CFC methods) may be validated using the TYPE attribute which takes a data type as a value. One important type that is missing in CFMX is XML, and we plan to fix this by supporting TYPE="xml" in Blackstone. Oh, and of course itself supports...
Steve Erat posted some important messages pertaining to server stability and troubleshooting on cf-talk, and had the good sense to post the comments to his blog too. See http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6B5BD222-45A6-2844-74F691ACD0082042 and...
I just spent 15 minutes helping a customer, he had a major deadline (building a ColdFusion application as a proof of concept) and was running into last-minute-just-before-demo glitches. He IMd me for help, I sent him to my Breeze room and gave him presenter privileges so I could see his screen, and...
is used to enumerate the variables used in your code, ensuring that they exist, optionally setting default values if they do not, and possibly also validating data types. Placing a series of tags at the start of a page makes it easier to ensure that required variables exist, and that they are of...
Sure you have a mouse, but not one like this. I blogged the iDuck a while back (and actually have one of those in my computer bag), but here comes 128MB of flash memory inside a furry plush mouse, yes, a stuffed animal on a keychain that can store your precious data. If you are so compelled, see...
Government Computer News (GCN) is running a story about City of Davis, California, using ColdFusion. As per the story, ColdFusion has been used "for the past five years for its citizen-facing and intranet Web applications". Over 25,000 pages, and "most of the stuff that's displayed is database...
Dreamweaver supports the creation and use of ColdFusion Recordsets (essentially tags), listing returned columns as bindings which can subsequently be used in output code. Dreamweaver has been able to do this for a while, generating a single .cfm page containing both the query and the output code....
Washington Technology is running a piece today by S. Michael Gallagher about the need for rapid application development tools. He states that "While Web-based applications solved the problem of how to get applications to users and centrally maintain them, they presented new technical challenges for...
Motorola is shipping the A630, a whole new phone that looks nothing like the typical Motorola flip-phones. The A630 sports the now obligatory camera, supports Bluetooth, has a built-in speakerphone, runs Java apps, all of the stuff you'd expect. But what is really different about this one is that...
One of my pet peeves with some CFML tags is that they hardcode return value structure names. For example, creates a structure named CFFILE that contains the results of the file operation. And many others tags work this way too. What bugs me about this is that if you need to use a tag multiple times...