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Another small enhancement added to the upcoming ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 (now in beta). You can now add messages to the Flash from redirectTo() instead of needing to call flashInsert() separately.
Less code FTW! Read on for an example.
The upcoming ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 (now in beta) offers a new setting called assetQueryString that can help you more easily manage caching on the client side for assets like images, stylesheets, and JavaScript includes.
Read on for more information about the new setting and the problem that it helps solve.
This past week, Kenneth Barrett asked a question on Twitter about how to DRY up his form code in ColdFusion on Wheels. He didn’t want to have a copy of the same form across 2 view files. This is because he is a smart guy, even as a beginner! 
I linked Kenneth to a post that I wrote a year ago about combining 2 forms into a single view file. That approach works well for certain scenarios, but I’ve since changed my mind on my general preference for DRYing up forms.
Read on to see what exactly I’ve changed my mind on.
I was looking for a good way to pop up all PDF links in a new window and ran across PDF links open in a new window”>Dennison Uy’s post with code.
But I did modify his code slightly. Read on for what I did and why.
On my Labs site, I’ve written another page exploring a view helper coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.1 called flashMessages(). Read on about it if you want more details, but here’s the gist.
A cool new feature coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 is automatic validations. I wrote a page last night to play around with the new feature a little and figure out how it all works.
I went to deploy my new ColdFISH on Wheels plugin on my Linux server and got a curious error. Especially if you’re using Linux, you’ll want to upgrade to ColdFISH on Wheels 0.3 ASAP.
What happened? Read on to find out.
As I hit the books and learned about Ruby on Rails a couple years ago, there was one thing that I admired about how Ruby handles public and private sections of classes.
How can I take a lesson from Ruby and apply it to my CFML coding? I’m glad that you asked! Read on for more details.
A few months ago, I blogged about my excitement about the role that full script CFCs could have in an MVC stack, particularly with ColdFusion on Wheels. In my excitement to try out the new feature, I had spent much of a Saturday manually converting all of my components into CFScript components in my portal project called Administrivia.
Unfortunately, the CFScript part of ColdFusion isn’t quite where it needs to be yet. Read on to find out why.
This is fairly simple, but I figured that I would share my approach for 404 error pages in ColdFusion on Wheels and see if anyone has a different/better way of doing it. This example demonstrates code used on cfwheels.org.
Read on to learn more.
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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