A reader this morning asked me if there was a way to check if a block of text was XML. My initial reaction was to say "just use the IsXML() function", but that I checked and discovered that CFML does not have an IsXML() function. It has an IsXMLDoc() function, but that checks to see if a passed...
I received hundreds of e-mail messages this morning, some from folks wanting to know why I was sending them infected messages, and the others bounce notifications sent because mail servers had rejected mail I had sent because of bad attachments. The problem? I did not send the mail, nor did my...
CNET is running a story (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5065739.html?tag=lh) stating that the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today criticized the current crop of anti-spam legislation initiatives stating that although well intentioned, they "will do little to solve the current spam...
Are you planning on attending MAX (the conference formerly known as DevCon)? If so, and if you are interested in Web Services, you may want to attend my hands-on "Using Web Services with ColdFusion" session. Hands-on sessions tend to sell out first, so if you are interested in this one you may want...
I've added a spell checker to the comments posting page on this blog. Not that any of you needed a spell checker, but ... :-) All comments and feedback welcome.
After a day and a half without any power, no telephones (we lost cell phones on all networks as well as land lines), and almost no running water I'm back online. It looks like my site was up all the time (the data center has a backup generator), but it could not be accessed at times because most...
A 15 page ColdFusion MX 6.1 performance brief has been posted on the Macromedia web site at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/whitepapers/pdf/6_1/cfmx61_performancebrief.pdf. Based on these numbers it looks like we lied about the performance gains in this new version, it's not what we...
Little baby boy Forta arrived this morning at 9:28 am. The (yet to be named) baby clocked in at 8 pounds 13 ounces and 22" long. Mother and baby are doing fine! :-)
I'm a gadget freak (as most of us are), and am particularly fond of anything pertaining to time, calendars, globes, planets, geophysics, construction gizmos, puzzles, and just about anything with cool LEDs (yeah, very specific, I know). My newest toy is an LED binary clock - a clock with six...
This wasn't always possible, and I don't know when it become possible, but as I am working with Java CFX code now and am using this feature I thought I'd share. The CFXAPI (used in creating CFX tags in C/C++ or Java) exposes a limited subset of the ColdFusion world to your code. One of the things...