Recording & Slides for my CF10 and ORM talk
This week I've been lucky enough to be speak as part of Adobe's ColdFusion Developer Week. The recording from my session on Building applications using ColdFusion 10 and ORM is now available
View ArticlesingletonPattern and DI1
I've been playing around with Sean Corfield's DI1, a simple convention-based IoC framework. My preferred file structure doesn't work with the default convention, so I started thinking about a...
View Articlevar scoping and nulls
Do you need to var scope a variable again if it was previously set to null?
View ArticleIsNull() bug?
I've been updating some error handling code and was using IsNull to detect if the URL and FORM scope exist (as some remote calls may not URL or form scopes). However, IsNull was always returning true.
View ArticleString concatenation performance reprise
Way back in 2008 I did a blog post on performant ways to concatinate strings in ColdFusion. I've just been working on improving the speed of an old website and thought it was good time to revisit the...
View ArticleRemoving duplicates using java.util.HashSet
I recently had an issue where I had a list (of ids) with duplicated items in it. ColdFusion 10 has a function called listRemoveDuplicates which does the job, but I'm working on Coldfusion 9 so needed a...
View ArticleOrdering a many-to-many
A quick post on ordering by properties in a many-to-many relationship, using HQL
View ArticleUsing a ColdFusion Directory Watcher to minify JavaScript
I was talking to a colleague about a Mac programme called CodeKit which watches a directory and when you make changes to a file, it creates a minified version of that file. This got me thinking about...
View ArticleBlocking SQL injection with htaccess
A set of htaccess rules to stop SQL injection attempts at the webserver level
View ArticleEntityToQuery Gotcha
EntityToQuery method returns no columns if the array is empty on ColdFusion 9.
View ArticleScoping and closures
I wanted to explore how the variables are scoped when working with closures.
View ArticleUsing thin wrappers around arrays of structs
I noticed that Sean Corfield had posted on the FW1 mailing list about using a thin wrapper around arrays of structs. This is something that I've experimented with before and I find it to be a useful...
View Articlefind the last occurrence of an uppercase character
A really quick post on how to find the last occurrence of an uppercase character in a string
View Articlepresenting a free webinar this Wednesday
I'll be presenting a free webinar this Wednesday
View ArticleDataBoss Review
I've managed to get my hands on a copy of Luis Majano's DataBoss and wanted to post some thoughts on it.
View ArticleThe XSS Auditor refused to execute a script
The XSS Auditor refused to execute a script because its source code was found within the request. The auditor was enabled as the server sent neither an 'X-XSS-Protection' nor 'Content-Security-Policy'...
View ArticleUsing the subsystem layout for FW1 errors
I've been working on a FW1 application that uses subsystems, where I wanted the error messages (not that there will be any of course!) to show but use the correct layout for the current subsystem. Out...
View ArticleFinding whitespace generation
Finding where whitespace is being created in your application
View ArticleEvent-Driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns
An Event-Driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns.
View ArticlelistFind alternatives
Investigating faster alternatives for listFind on ColdFusion and Lucee.
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