http://www.blogoffusion.com ColdFusion Blogs en-us Fri, 18 May 2012 02:08:39 -0400 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:15:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mdinowit@houseoffusion.com mdinowit@houseoffusion.com http://www.blogoffusion.com/010710-my-fusebox-application-upgrade-experience.cfm I'm doing an integration and upgrade on a Fusebox application which has passed through at least 2 other developers, both of whom I know. There are a few things in the code which look 'wrong' to me but they work. My rule is, if it works, don't rewrite... Fusebox Frameworks Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:15:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/010710-my-fusebox-application-upgrade-experience.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/091409-jquery-dollar-signs-and-document-references.cfm I'm learning jQuery from the ground up and when I learn something, I want to know what is assumed, what has to be explicitly stated, and why one thing is done vs. another. As I go along, I'll be documenting my thoughts both for my own reference and... jQuery Basics Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:31:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/091409-jquery-dollar-signs-and-document-references.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/071309-coldfusion-9-and-coldfusion-builder-betas-released.cfm Adobe just released the public betas for ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder. There will be a flurry of posts on what these products do so I'm going to focus on resources to use. ColdFusion Builder mailing list There is a ColdFusion Builder m... ColdFusion IDE ColdFusion 9 ColdFusion Builder News Announcements Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:15:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/071309-coldfusion-9-and-coldfusion-builder-betas-released.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/063009-examining-my-coldfusion-job-search.cfm My post on "Are there really ColdFusion jobs?" got a comment which was echoed by Sean Corfield on his blog (ColdFusion Jobs? Really?). It seems that I didn't answer my own question. In truth, I was using it as a jump off point but looking over the ... Best Practices Opinion Jobs Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:24:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/063009-examining-my-coldfusion-job-search.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/062809-are-there-really-coldfusion-jobs.cfm Are there really ColdFusion jobs out there or are they teasing us? As of today, I'm married 14 years. This means that I've been using ColdFusion for 14 years and 1 week. In those years I've done everything from create some of what is considered ... Opinion Jobs Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:44:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/062809-are-there-really-coldfusion-jobs.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/051709-wrong-coldfusion-religion.cfm This is a realization that has been thrust upon me over the years. I belong to the wrong ColdFusion religion. My religion is that ColdFusion was designed for clean, understandable applications written in a quick and easy style by people of all leve... Coding Opinion OOP Rant Frameworks Sun, 17 May 2009 16:35:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/051709-wrong-coldfusion-religion.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/051209-cfml-builder-by-railo.cfm Pure Speculation This is not reality. This is simply speculation. By looking at a few logical points, one can easily trace a path from Mark Drew and CFEclipse to a new open-source editor produced by Railo Technologies. As of now, such a product, let... ColdFusion IDE New Ideas Opinion Tue, 12 May 2009 18:33:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/051209-cfml-builder-by-railo.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/111808-adobe-coldfusion-ide-announced.cfm Ben (Forta for those that don't know) just announced that Adobe will be releasing an official IDE for ColdFusion, codenamed Bolt. Yes, official and yes from Adobe. You know, the people that have been accused of not caring about ColdFusion. ... ColdFusion IDE Announcements Max 2008 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/111808-adobe-coldfusion-ide-announced.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/050108-the-subtle-pen-the-invisible-editor.cfm I am the subtle pen, the invisible editor. Few know me for my work but it touches many without their knowledge. I do not have the professional editorial eye of Judith or Dana and they rarely leave me anything to do. My eye is for the small modificati... Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Opinion Thu, 01 May 2008 12:34:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/050108-the-subtle-pen-the-invisible-editor.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/032508-discredited-magazine-publisher-at-war-with-adobe.cfm A discredited and SYStematically CONniving magazine publisher has fired yet another salvo at Adobe today in their usual manner. This involves taking a blog post, re-branding it as coming from their "news desk" and altering the title to fit their ve... Opinion Rant Stupid Articles Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/032508-discredited-magazine-publisher-at-war-with-adobe.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/032508-coldfusion-8-per-app-settings--mappings.cfm According to the documentation for this feature, Per App mappings allows you to dynamically set "logical aliases for paths to directories on your server." This sounds great but the code example in the documentation is wrong and this leads to a lot ... ColdFusion 8 Coding Gotcha Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:04:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/032508-coldfusion-8-per-app-settings--mappings.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-flex-authority-is-not-in-the-building.cfm We're coming out with a Flex magazine along the same lines as the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. One of the first steps in publishing a magazine is coming up with a good name. Flex Authority is a great name. Problem is, it's being squatted on and... Opinion Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:03:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-flex-authority-is-not-in-the-building.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-confirming-your-address-for-spam.cfm I just posted an idea up to the iMS list and got back an email from a list member asking me to confirm that I'm a human making a post. I rarely respond to these requests but on a whim I decided to check the domain that was making the request. The res... New Ideas Spam Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:53:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/021108-confirming-your-address-for-spam.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/121807-antibot-spam-with-simplicity.cfm Spam-bots are getting smarter. I've seen bots that fill out forms with close to perfect information. I've seen bots that copy blog comments and then add in their spam. I've seen bots that adapt to their situations. What I have not seen are bots that ... New Ideas Spam Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:07:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/121807-antibot-spam-with-simplicity.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/103107-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--admin-update.cfm There are two more minor tweaks to this anti-spam approach that need to be implemented. The first is to go back into the blog.cfc and comment out lines 1489 and 1491. This CFIF limits the recent comments to ones that have moderated set to true (which... Blog New Ideas Spam Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:16:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/103107-modding-blogcfc-moderated-if-url-is-present--admin-update.cfm