http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm A blog for ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Development and other topics. en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:46:10 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:43:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ray@camdenfamily.com ray@camdenfamily.com http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/4/Review-Red-Faction-Guerrilla-XBOX-360 Would you have guessed that blowing the crap out of things would be fun? Yeah, probably so, and it's been done before, but wow, does Red Faction Guerrilla (RF) make it a heck of a lot of fun. I never played the first game, so this was my first in... Video Games Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:43:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/4/Review-Red-Faction-Guerrilla-XBOX-360 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/4/Did-you-know-Adobe-had-a-Product-Security-Incident-Response-blog I didn't! Thanks to Hemant for pointing this out to me. You can find this blog here: http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/. I've pinged Adobe to find out a bit more about how and why content shows up here. You won't see anything about the MIME issue, but... Adobe ColdFusion Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:09:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/4/Did-you-know-Adobe-had-a-Product-Security-Incident-Response-blog http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/3/ColdFusion-Security-Issue--FCKEditor Many blogs are reporting this, and frankly I don't have more to add to the already good reports out there, but be sure you read and respond to this new issue involving FCKEditor. Details: CF8 and FCKEditor Security Threat ColdFusion 8 FCKeditor... ColdFusion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:08:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/3/ColdFusion-Security-Issue--FCKEditor http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/2/Converting-ColdFusion-data-for-jQuery-Plugins--An-example Kerrie asks: A couple of weeks ago, I read a post you wrote on jQuery and form validation... really peaked my interest so I've been taking a look at not only the validation plugin, but many of the other great jQuery plugins... I found this one... [More] ColdFusion jQuery AJAX Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:06:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/2/Converting-ColdFusion-data-for-jQuery-Plugins--An-example http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/2/Query-of-query-issue-with-where-clausejoins A user reported this to me earlier in the week. I was sure he was wrong until I confirmed it myself. Imagine you have 2 queries you want to join using a query of query. Here is a quick sample. [More] ColdFusion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:38:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/2/Query-of-query-issue-with-where-clausejoins http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/1/Quick-example-of-Java-via-ColdFusion--Reading-FLV-Metadata Earlier this week a reader asked if there was a way to read FLV Metadata via ColdFusion. There isn't anything built in (that I know of!) so I did a quick search for a Java solution. I think people forget how easy it is to use Java via ColdFusion. Eve... [More] Java ColdFusion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:28:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/7/1/Quick-example-of-Java-via-ColdFusion--Reading-FLV-Metadata http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Important-RIAForge-Updates Today I released two important updates to RIAForge, both thanks to Nathan Mische. The first change is the addition of Akismet spam protection to the blogs and forums. RIAForge gets hit pretty hard by spammers, so the hope is that this will reduce ... Adobe Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:58:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Important-RIAForge-Updates http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Are-you-aware-of-the-MIMEFile-Upload-Security-Issue I had heard a few rumblings of this recently but had not really paid it much attention. Mike emailed me today and described how he was hacked pretty badly by it. I'll share his email and then add some notes to the end. [More] ColdFusion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:59:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Are-you-aware-of-the-MIMEFile-Upload-Security-Issue http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/29/Ask-a-Jedi-CFAJAXPROXY-and-Managing-Callbacks Yaron asks: I'd like to know what your preference is for using cfajaxproxy. In JavaScript, do you create one global proxy object and reuse it throughout your script? Or do you create a new proxy object within every function that generates a p... [More] ColdFusion AJAX Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/29/Ask-a-Jedi-CFAJAXPROXY-and-Managing-Callbacks http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/29/MAX-2009-ColdFusion-Unconference--Call-for-SpeakersComments MAX is still a few months away (and I've yet to finish my presentations for CFUNITED), but it's time to begin early planning for the ColdFusion Unconference. Last year I think things went well, but there are some changes I'd like to make. First - ... ColdFusion MAX Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/29/MAX-2009-ColdFusion-Unconference--Call-for-SpeakersComments http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/28/ColdFusion-Portal-Update Just a quick note to let folks know that I've updated the ColdFusion Resource Portal. I don't think folks visit this site very often. I created it mainly because I had trouble finding things on the Adobe site. I noticed how well Flex.org organized im... ColdFusion Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:52:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/28/ColdFusion-Portal-Update http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/28/iPhone-3GS--So-far-so-good I wanted to give folks a quick update on my experience with the new iPhone 3GS. With the expensive (for some) upgrade price, I know people aren't sure if it is worth the upgrade. Here is what I've found so far. First though - note that I had a first... Misc Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:20:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/28/iPhone-3GS--So-far-so-good http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/27/LighthousePro-26 I pushed up LighthousePro to RIAForge. This isn't a major update in functionality (although it has a few updates and some jQuery-lovin' added) but it is now a Model-Glue 3 sample application. It will ship with Model-Glue 3 and hopefully serve as a go... Lighthouse Pro CF Bugtracker ColdFusion Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:13:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/27/LighthousePro-26 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/27/Finding-the-username-in-an-AIR-app-and-a-quick-binding-tip Gary asked me an interesting question relating to AIR applications. He wanted to know if there was a way for an AIR application to know the username of the current user. I would have guessed that this would be part of the AIR API, but after a bit of ... AIR Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:25:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/27/Finding-the-username-in-an-AIR-app-and-a-quick-binding-tip http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Interesting-ColdFusion-POST-to-PHP-Issue I shared a few emails with a reader last week that concerned an interesting issue with ColdFusion POSTs (form submissions) to PHP code. I thought I'd share what we found and see if anyone else has seen this behavior as well. PHP developers are welcom... [More] ColdFusion Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:25:00 -0400 http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Interesting-ColdFusion-POST-to-PHP-Issue