DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - ColdFusion

Creating A "Down For Maintenance" Page

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:59:00 +0100

Ben Nadel has blogged a neat way to render a "Down For Maintenance" page including being Google friendly. The only thing I'd change is to put the code outside of the Application.cfc in a CFINCLUDE so that it could be styled to suit the site without all that code cluttering up the Application.cfc file.

CFSCRIPT Cheat Sheet

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:26:00 +0100

Pete Fritag has a great CFSCRIPT Cheat Sheet.

CFEclipse Cheatsheet

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:22:00 +0100

Do I need to say more? http://www.thecrumb.com/cfeclipse/

Quick Access to cfQuickDocs

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:09:00 +0100

Drop and drop this cfQuickDocs Bookmarklet into your Firefox Links bar and you can get access to the CFQuickDocs website!

Comments

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:42:00 +0100

Kay started it and Sean followed it up. How do you comment?

ColdFusion Training Courses

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:09:00 +0100

Here's a list of ColdFusion training courses I've found:

Alternating Row Color Tip

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:02:00 +0100

Mark Kruger has blogged a tip on colouring alternative rows in HTML using CSS. I've done something similar before, but the use of #currentrow mod 2# is neat.

I now have a better tip. Use BitAnd() like <tr class="rowBackground#BitAnd(query.currentRow,1)#">.

Sample Applications

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:56:00 +0100

Looking for example applications built with Macromedia products? I found this list of Macromedia sample applications in the del.icio.us side bar on cfmx.org.

There are Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver example apps there.

Hungarian Notation

Fri, 13 May 2005 15:00:00 +0100

Where have I been going wrong!

It seems from Sean's blog that I, and most dev's, have got hold of the wrong end of the stick when it comes to Hungarian Notation.

Sean quotes Joel's blog and he, eventually, makes some interesting points.

Personally I'm happy with prefixing vars with their datatype as I think it's appropriate for a weakly type language like ColdFusion. Plus it helps with db column types when it comes to choosing the cfsqltype attribute.

Other links from Joel:

Dr. Charles Simonyi's original paper, Hungarian Notation
Doug Klunder introduced this to the Excel team in a somewhat clearer paper

[Update: 25-June 2006] Actually it seems like I wasn't so wrong. Sounds like I've been using Hungarian System Notation according to Wikipedia.

Duplicating a Function

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:26:00 +0100

To stop you accidently defining a function more that once, try bracketing your code like this...

<cfif StructKeyExists(variables,"Foo") AND NOT IsCustomFunction(Foo)>
    <cfscript>
    function StripHTMLscope() {
        ...
        return true;
    }
    </cfscript>
</cfif>

Speller Pages and CFMX

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:05:00 +0100

There's a handy little spellchecking applet out there called Speller Pages. It's open source, it's easy to implement, and it's free. Here's what you need to do to get it working with CFMX.

ChiliBeans - Easy Configuration and More

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:54:00 +0100

Joe Rinehart has a neat way of using xml and CFC's to store user config data.

CF LogViewer Eclipse plugin

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:41:00 +0100

Mike Nimer has written a neat Eclipse plugin to display the CF log files.

ColdFusion UUID to SQL UniqueIdentifier

Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:57:00 +0100

Doug Hughes has some neat SQL functions to manage UUID to GUID swapping.

Build number reference for ColdFusion MX, JRun4, and wsconfig

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:45:00 +0100

Steven Erat has a useful technique to get the version/build numbers of a number of products.