Posts About ColdFusion

I’ve always thought Twitter a glorious waste of time. But I recently found out that much of the CFML community hangs out there.

So here’s my new Twitter handle: @cf_chrispeters.

I must admit that joining Twitter with the goal of connecting with other CFers makes it a much more rewarding experience. I’ve learned a few things already just from links that others have been posting. If you use ColdFusion, Railo, or OpenBD, then you should give it a shot.

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I’ll fulfill my promise by giving another example of how I would improve the Hello Database tutorial for ColdFusion on Wheels.

This time, I’ll talk about how we could factor out view logic so that the profile form can be used for both the add and edit actions. With all of this MVC goodness, we should be able to do some refactoring easily, shouldn’t we?

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One of the cool things about ColdFusion on Wheels functions is that you can set global defaults for any of their parameters. This is useful if you find yourself typing the same argument values every time you call a specific Wheels function.

Read on for an explanation and code samples.

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I’d like to write more about ColdFusion on Wheels on this blog, so I’m playing around with a syntax highlighter for WordPress called WP-Syntax.

Read on to see how simple this WordPress plugin is, how to use it, and some examples.

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Today, we released ColdFusion in Wheels 0.7. This is a major milestone because we’ve gained some momentum with the project. Even Ben Forta has given us a shout-out, so I’m one giddy nerd right now. Moments like these are why I do the work that I do. I’m hoping the other guys that are working [...]

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I have decided to take the lead role of the ColdFusion on Wheels project. I am developing some business-critical projects on top of the framework, and I personally want to see it flourish. This is a major commitment, so I did need to hesitate for a moment and think about what I was getting into. [...]

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I was excited to see that Adobe sped up the CreateObject(“component”) function in ColdFusion 8. Was I finally able to use beans without dramatically slowing down my page loads? The answer is no, but you should continue reading to see how I got to use beans in my ColdFusion project. ColdFusion components suck at beans [...]

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[Update: Please refer to the comments as I note my discoveries to this problem. As it turns out, performance of using CFCs as beans is still really bad, even in CF8.] I’m glad that there are a wealth of ColdFusion resources out within the CF community on the Web. I had lost faith in using [...]

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After reading the Macromedia Web Technology Group’s (WTG) ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines document, I was excited to learn some great tips about how to secure CFCs, custom tags, includes, and config files. Read on to find out more.

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When trying out cfform for the first time in my ColdFusion MX 7 hosting environment, I received a JavaScript error: Error: ‘lc_id’ is undefined. This post explains how I fixed the error.

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