Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog

ORM Entity not available? Check your logs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:37:00 -0500

This afternoon I was working on a set of persistent entities called event, eventtype, eventstatus, and eventpriority. Event is the "core" entity with hooks to status, type, and priority. When everything was done I whipped up a quick test: ... [More]

Repeat - ColdFusion 9 does NOT remove the need to var scope!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:59:00 -0500

Sorry to yell (well, we don't have to assume all exclamation marks are equivalent to yelling) but this email came in to me this morning and it is very troubling for me: I have a question for you about varScoper and CF9. As I understand it, in CF...

AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 Betas

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:31:00 -0500

As I (slowly) try to recover from yesterday, I thought I'd send out a quick reminder to folks that the latest betas of both AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 are available. AIR 2.0 should be an amazing release. I highly recommend catching up on Christian C...

Looking for ideas on ORM Optimization (Post Launch)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:42:00 -0500

There are some really good blog entries out there on ColdFusion 9 and optimization (I suggest reading everything at Rupesh's blog). As a developer, you have multiple options for how your entities are configured, and how related data is loaded. I'm st...

Google's Static Map API

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:47:00 -0500

I discovered something cool today - Google has a "Static" Maps API. What is that exactly? While Google Maps is very powerful, it requires the use of JavaScript. For simple maps, or for embedding maps into PDFs, you can't use regular Google Maps. This... [More]

Cropping to the center of an image

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:14:00 -0500

This week a user sent in what I thought was a rather simple request. He needed to find the center of an image. That's pretty trivial math, so I fired back with the following: [More]

Translating from Roman to Decimal Numbers with ColdFusion

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:16:00 -0500

A few days ago I saw on Twitter a request for code that would convert roman numerals to decimal. CFLib has a UDF for going from decimal to Roman, but not the other way. I did a bit of searching and while I found a bunch of code libraries, I didn't fi...

Example of pagination with jQuery and ColdFusion with "External Buttons"

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:49:00 -0500

That title really isn't very clear, so let me explain a bit more about what this blog entry is about. A reader asked if it was possible to do pagination via Ajax (ie, each page of content is loaded via Ajax), but have the controls (the previous and n... [More]

Best of ColdFusion 9 Contest: And the winners are...

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:09:00 -0500

So only 4-5 weeks after I said I would wrap things up, it is finally time to announce the winners of the "Best of ColdFusion 9" contest. Before I do so, I have a few things I want to say. First - I know that showing other people your code can be...

ColdFusion 9 Security Bulletin

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:25:00 -0500

The first (I think?) ColdFusion 9 Security bulletin has been released: Solution available for potential ColdFusion information disclosure issue This relates to Solr and it's built in web service.

Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:40:00 -0500

I am not familiar (at all) with BIRT, but I wanted to pass on their announcement of a new contest for Flash and Flex developers. The Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex contest is open now till March 10 and has a nice (and large) cash prize of up to $5,00...

Trouble downloading from RIAForge? Read this

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:28:00 -0500

In the past few weeks, I've gotten around 10 or so emails from people having issues downloading projects at RIAForge. Because RIAForge allows folks to point to external download locations, I typically just check to see if that is the issue. However -...

One example of dealing with JSON deserialization issues

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:16:00 -0500

There have been a few blog posts recently about issues with JSON and ColdFusion. Specifically issues concerning data being "transformed" into other data types. While there are a variety of ways to solve this issue, I thought I'd share one particular ...

Quick example of table sorting with ColdFusion and jQuery

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:00 -0500

For a while now I've been meaning to take a look at table sorting via jQuery. I finally got a chance to play with it last night and write up a quick demo. My example makes use of Tablesorter, a jQuery plugin that adds (wait for it) table sorting to e... [More]

Bug with CFDUMP/output, impacts XML/JSON services

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:11:00 -0500

While working on a ColdFusion Builder extension (no, not that one) I ran into a bug that caused the response dialog to constantly return an 'invalid XML' error. An Adobe engineer discovered that the issue was with the cfdump tag I had in the extensio... [More]