http://www.blogoffusion.com ColdFusion Blogs en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:27:57 -0400 Sun, 17 May 2009 16:35:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mdinowit@houseoffusion.com mdinowit@houseoffusion.com 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 Frameworks OOP Opinion Rant Sun, 17 May 2009 16:35:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/051709-wrong-coldfusion-religion.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 ... Coding Gotcha ColdFusion 8 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:04:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/032508-coldfusion-8-per-app-settings--mappings.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/022707-forking.cfm To quote Wikipedia on forking: In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software. Free or open source s... Coding Opinion Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:20:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/022707-forking.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/022707-machii-my-final-words.cfm I've been a little gun shy about posting recently. I stopped responding to a post about the use of the This scope. I did not follow up on the arguments for/against my actions with Mach-II. I did not follow up on anything because I got some rather neg... Coding Frameworks Opinion Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:16:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/022707-machii-my-final-words.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-what-i-did-to-mach-ii.cfm There has been a lot of interest in the steps I took to optimize my client's website. The main interest was in what I did to Mach II in order to speed it up, especially as Mach II is rather optimized to start with. The answer is to cheat. If y... Optimization Best Practices Frameworks Coding Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:05:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-what-i-did-to-mach-ii.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-i-dont-hate-mach-ii.cfm I was doing a remote presentation last night on "Object Orienter Programming for ColdFusion Developers" and it eventually moved over to the topic of optimizing ColdFusion Components. While I was showing what I do for speed, I relayed a story about ... Optimization Best Practices Frameworks OOP Coding Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-i-dont-hate-mach-ii.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/113006-faqu-12--oop-for-cf-and-frameworks.cfm Yep, the second issue of the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update is not only in my hand, it's packed and ready to go to all subscribers. But of course, anyone who subscribes before the end of the year gets this issue as well as the previous one in PDF ... Coding Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Frameworks CFC OOP Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:41:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/113006-faqu-12--oop-for-cf-and-frameworks.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/112306-execution-functions-and-evaluation-zones.cfm Waaaay back in 2000, I wrote an article on certain 'laws' of ColdFusion that I used: The Law (according to Michael Dinowitz) One part of this article was a rundown of what I called Execution Functions. Basically, these were functions that either r... Coding Best Practices Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:36:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/112306-execution-functions-and-evaluation-zones.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-structkeyexists-vs-isdefined-when-checking-2-scopes.cfm There has been a movement away from using the IsDefined() function to using the StructKeyExists() function. The reasoning is that when IsDefined() is used to find an unscoped variable, it follows a specific order of scope evaluation that goes through... Optimization Best Practices Coding Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:16:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-structkeyexists-vs-isdefined-when-checking-2-scopes.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/100306-interfaces--why-bother.cfm I've been watching people talk back and forth about including interfaces into the ColdFusion language or not and I've been wondering why bother. From what I know, interfaces (the Java keyword rather than the general term) are used to define what is b... Coding CFC OOP Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:19:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/100306-interfaces--why-bother.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/072606-what-i-want-in-cf-8--part-1.cfm There are TONS of great things inside Java that I'd love to see exposed and wrapped up nicely in ColdFusion. The RegEx functions are nice, but I want ALL of the RegEx options from Java. I can use Alagad to work with images, but a real CFIMAGE tag wou... Coding ColdFusion 8 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:04:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/072606-what-i-want-in-cf-8--part-1.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/071806-regular-expressions-gotcha.cfm I was playing with some code the other day and ran into a 'gotcha' that I should have seen. I knew it in a different situation and just didn't apply it to what I was doing at the time. Basically, ColdFusion can store a Regular Expression in a var... Coding Regular Expressions Gotcha Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:02:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/071806-regular-expressions-gotcha.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/061606-isvalid-and-regex-issues.cfm While writing some new documentation on ColdFusion MX 7 features you may have missed (for the soon to be released Fusion Authority Quarterly Update), I came across an interesting issue with the IsValid function. This function is used to test if a... Coding Regular Expressions Errors Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:24:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/061606-isvalid-and-regex-issues.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/060606-when-to-use-the-variables-scope.cfm While formatting code for the upcoming Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, I had to actually write down all the rules I personally use for code formatting. Some of them are common sense, some seem kind of strange until you think of them, and some go ... Coding Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:27:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/060606-when-to-use-the-variables-scope.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/042506-query-of-query-function.cfm I've traced a major bottleneck in a client application to a number of query of queries. Removing the evaluate (mentioned on last post) sped things up greatly but not enough. Looking at the query of queries, I see that it's using an IN statement with ... Coding Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:05:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/042506-query-of-query-function.cfm