using the right technology at the right time
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.
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.
These are exciting times for ColdFusion. We have open source alternatives. Adobe just released their first shot at an official ColdFusion IDE, and they’ve even included Flash Builder in the package for free.
I’ve seen people comment that Adobe needs to promote and advertise ColdFusion more heavily. I think that this is a problem. While they are responsible for advertising and promotion to a degree, we must acknowledge that they’ve invested a lot into creating great tools for us to use and take some of the responsibility into our own hands.
“Does exactly what it says on the tin.”
I love it. All of our method and function names should do exactly the same.
Read on for more context and why Andy Bellenie is a genius.
A lot of websites pursue XHTML as their document type, which is really cool. But a lot of them end up not validating with one little mistake. Even worse, with this mistake, documents that are made to run in “standards mode” are immediately thrown into quirks mode by browsers because web developers don’t know how to do their jobs.
Read on to find out how to avoid this all-too-common mistake.
For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML‘s GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.
Read on for an example of what we did.
I’m looking forward to playing around with ColdFusion 9 when I get some more time here in a month or so. One of the areas that interests me in particular is the ability to write full CFCs in CFScript syntax.
Read on for what I feel is the perfect blend of CFML features used in the different layers of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework:
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.
