DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - ColdFusion MX 7

ColdFusion MX7 and Apache

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:27:00 +0100

Seems like you can get CFMX 7.0.2 to play with Apache 2.2.x but if you have a prob Apache 2.0.59 is a safe bet.

Query to Arguments or Structure

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:24:00 +0100

Doug Boude has a good code snippet do do this.

HOWTO - Multiple ColdFusion instances on Intel Mac

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:20:00 +0100

Stephen Collins has a good article on the subjet.

varScoper

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:00:00 +0100

varScoper is a "...cfc that can be used to parse cfm and cfc files and identify variables that haven't been locally scoped within cffunctions."

Var-Scoping, Private, and Public Data in CFCs

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:08:00 +0100

Brian Kotek has agood posting with massive comments on the best practice for variables within CFC's .

Spry and ColdFusion

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:48:00 +0100

Andy Powell gave a good presentation to the Nashville CFUG. Ray Camden has a short posting on Returning XML in ColdFusion for AJAX

Structures in ColdFusion

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:46:00 +0100

Charlie Griefer has a good explaination of Structures and copying.

CFSWITCH or CFIF?

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:51:00 +0100

Seems like CFSWITCH can be slow in some situations!

Form Reuse

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:20:00 +0100

Brian Kotek echoes my thoughts on Form Reuse.

CFUnit in CFEclipse

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

Andy Jarrett has a good article Running CFUnit in CFEclipse quick guide which fit nicely with this CFEclipse's CFUnit from Robert Blackburn. I need to get into this!

Uppercase first Letter with CF RegEx

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

I needed to uppercase the first letter of a word before displaying it. Here is neat RegEx (CF specific but will probably work in Perl) that will do just that.

You can use the above when you need it done on the server. Here is the more elegant client side solution with CSS:


boyan

While I'm at it here is nice CF RegEx tester: http://www.cftopper.com/contentfiles/tools/regularExpTester.cfm

CFDUMP for JavaScript

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:28:00 +0100

Here's an interesting idea, CFDUMP for JavaScript!

Password Style Checking

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:57:00 +0100

Over at the ColdFusion CookBook they have a regex for checking if a supplied password has the right mix of letters and number. Not used it yet but wanted to record it.

Dates

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:26:00 +0100

I always have prob's processing locale dates inf CFMX. I came across this tip - CF datetimes are decimal days since it's epoch. This should strip the time: CreateODBCDATETIME(int(Now())).

CF Manager for SlideShowPro

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:07:00 +0100

A great little util for managing SlideShowPro libraries.