I thought this was pretty interesting. It's actually part of a larger article (which I picked up from cftips.net), but can be read as a "stand alone" as well. It touches on several things such as variable scoping, query "blockfactors", IIf() vs. cfif, query caching, page caching, stored procs vs. cfqueries, cfthread, etc... There's some good little tidbits of info in there.
The 2009 Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour is coming to Nashville! It's time to learn about CF 9 and win some cool prizes!
In a (long) series of comments posted on this ColdFusion tutorial by Matt Gifford, the usual CF vs. PHP argument reared it's ugly head again. When the argument reached the topic of shared hosting costs, I almost spit out my drink when I read this comment:
"You probably won't find a 5 dollar a month hosting option for CF like you can with PHP. But basing your business on a host that charges as much as an imported beer is probably not a good idea."
Who said that? Our very own Jedi Master.
There's been a lot of buzz lately (more than usual) around the various CF Frameworks, and whether some of them are dead or alive and kicking. I've never used any of the frameworks much (although I've recently started getting into ColdSpring). I've tinkered with a few of them, just to see what they're about, but that's pretty much been the extent of it. That's probably about to change.
That's right, CF gave me an Allaire error today! It's been a while since I've seen one of these. Brings back memories of my good ole' CF 4.0 days.
This may not come as a big surprise to some people, but Railo doesn't seem to recognize the new query result attribute added to CF 8 that gets the ID of an inserted record.
This was an interesting little "gotcha" I stumbled on tonight. It seems that using a dash in the application name will throw an error in CF, but works fine in Railo.
I found an interesting inconsistency today between Railo and CF 8, and I have no idea what the real problem is or how to fix it.
I used the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator to create the CF components for a project that I'm working on. The problem I'm having is, whenever I make a call to one of my service components I get a "coldfusion.sql.QueryTable cannot be cast to java.util.Map" error on CF 8, but the same code works fine on Railo.
In my last blog post, I mentioned that I recently finished a site redesign project where maintaining search engine rankings was a big concern. Since many of the files on the new site had been relocated or renamed, I had to make sure that the search engines knew: 1) where the existing content had moved to, and 2) which pages should be removed from the search engine's indexes. This was accomplished easily enough using cfheader and onMissingTemplate in Application.cfc.
