Someone posted a message on cf-talk today that quickly mushroomed into a discussion on shared hosting and the related security risks. There is nothing wrong with shared hosting, and for many applications shared hosting may be the right choice (due to the low cost). But such an environment does have...
This one has tripped me up a few times recently, so I thought it best to share. is used (among other things) to assign default values, for example . You can use CFML functions for the default value, but you must provide the expression as a string with #'s delimiting the function call. For example,...
I've been running all my sites and servers on Windows boxes for, well, since day one (make that CF1). About 3 months ago I brought a Linux box online (RedHat 8 running Apache 2.x), and somewhat nervously moved several of my lower volume sites (like http://www.cffaq.com/) over to it. Today marks 90...
Since September 9th 2000, I have been hosting a "ColdFusion Tip-of-the-Day" (in retrospect I probably should have been more realistic and named it the "CF Tip-of-Most-Days"). The tips (about a thousand of them) cover several versions of ColdFusion, as well as ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver too....
I am not a fan of applets (actually, I despise them), but I have found the one applet that almost justifies their creation. Anyone a former Infocom fan? How about a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan? If you are both, you'll love this one - Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (circa 1984)...
We've finally nailed down dates for my summer US user group tour. So far we have East Coast dates (NY, PA, DC, MA) and Midwest dates (MI, OH, MN) posted. West Coast dates are still being finalized. Dates and locations are posted on my home page. If you're in the area (or rather, if I'm in your...
The blog RSS feed is now working. Seems the problem was that the XML being generated was invalid, tags were being converted to upper case by Dreamweaver because of some preferences I was playing around with. Fun fun fun. Anyway, it is working now. Links are on the left (for full mode use...
In response to my article on the Flash Data Connection Kit (at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/data_conn.html) many of you have written to me asking about comments I made as to how to use (or not use) the Firefly components in production environments. Some of the specific...
CFFaq.com is now online in Turkish, bringing the number of live languages to twelve. Thanks to Bora Ünal for the translation. Visit http://www.cffaq.com/ to browse the FAQs, as well as to comment on questions and answers, or to suggest additional questions.
I spent the day in Washington, DC today (thank goodness for air conditioning!) meeting with various government agencies all of whom use ColdFusion. I love spending time with government agencies as they tend to be a microcosm of the real world - all sorts of developers with all sorts of needs and...