Hello from Germany, this time in Nürnberg (most famous for the 1945-1946 Nürnberg trials in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals). I spent most of the day today talking to ColdFusion partners and users to get their views on what the next ColdFusion should...
Which is the faster way to check whether or not a string is empty, or ? The commonly held view is that it is the latter, but, after a heated debate today on the subject of optimization, I decided to test it for myself. The result? Almost no difference at all, in fact, I had to run the test...
I opted not to installed ODBC support when I installed ColdFusion MX 6.1, and of course, now I need it. I discovered an installer that looked like it should do the trick, but it didn't, and a reinstall of CF did not seem to work either. The solution? Here it is (courtesy of Mike Nimer): 1: Locate...
Oscar Trelles has posted a Flash MX 2004 crack on his blog (http://www.oscartrelles.com/blog/archive.php?post_id=1063726883), he's written a serial number generator. Oscar, I only wish you could capture and post the facial expressions of happy users, you rock!
Another nice find (this one shared by Phil Costa, ColdFusion Product manager). mySPIKE (at http://myspike.wharton.upenn.edu/) is the Wharton School of Business portal site powered by ColdFusion MX (running on Windows). The application is classic portal; lots of customizable windows in tabbed...
I've recently received several email questions about using Access with ColdFusion MX on Windows 98 or ME. The ColdFusion MX Administrator does not list Microsoft Access as an available driver type when ColdFusion is running on Windows 98 or ME. But, if you do need to work with Access, don't...
Hello from Japan! I arrived in Tokyo a few hours ago and am now back online. I had forgotten just how far Narita airport is from Tokyo, sitting on a bus for close to 2 hours after a l-o-n-g flight is no fun. I vote for airport relocation!
I love bumping into .cfm extensions on sites that I had no idea were using ColdFusion. My latest find is NEC-Mitsubishi (at http://www.necmitsubishi.com/). I was reviewing monitor specs (for a new LCD monitor) and discovered that almost the entire site is ColdFusion; product specs, company info,...
One of the Dreamweaver "features" that us CFers complained loudly about was the need to define a site to be able to do anything. Unlike ColdFusion Studio which allowed you to browse an FTP or RDS connection for files, Dreamweaver required that a local site be created and that edits be made locally...
ColdFusion has integrated debugging features, and has for a long time. Most CF developers rely heavily on ColdFusion's ability to append debug output to generated pages, and tags like and and are also used when debugging code. cfstat and PerfMon integration provide some visibility into the CF...