using the right technology at the right time
If you’ve made the switch to Railo and find yourself missing the <cfspreadsheet> tag and its related functions, don’t fear. Andy Jarrett released an extension for Railo early this year to fill in that gap.
Read on to find out more.
I was trying to add file uploading to my Wheels + Railo application. But I kept getting this error message when trying to use <cffile action="upload">:
Form field [asset[file]] doesn’t exist or has no content
After a couple hours of beating my head against the wall, I realized that I didn’t set enctype="multipart/form-data" on the form tag.
Fortunately, this is a fairly simple fix using the Wheels startFormTag() form helper and its multipart argument.
Russ Johnson reported a bug with my ColdFISH on Wheels plugin. The bug affected the formattedCode() function’s wrapperElement and wrapperClass arguments, which were being ignored accidentally.
I finally squashed the bug tonight in version 0.7 of the plugin. Be sure to download the new version if you’re planning on using the plugin in your application.
I spent some time last night making some security updates to the PluginManager plugin and making sure that all of the plugins that I’ve submitted to cfwheels.org are compatible with the newly released ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1.
Read on for links to the plugins and descriptions that I entered in their change logs:
Just over a year ago, I blogged about my implementation of the RSS aggregator for cfwheels.org using Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, <cffeed>, and Wheels partials. Now that ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.1 is in beta (and almost complete), there is a new piece of functionality involving partials that makes my solution simpler.
Read on to learn more about automatic data functions for partials in Wheels and how it helped simplify my application.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
