Yay! After months of other work, I finally get to code some ColdFusion again. Woo-hoo! PerthWeb’s mega-uber-super Project Tracker is on track, so to speak. That’s right, the mythical product that has been “in planning” for about four years is … Continue reading
Category Archives: ColdFusion
Flash CFFORM – the Heartbreak
I finished the week on a very sad note. You see, sometime on Friday I came to the realisation that Flash CFFORMs, while very very cool, were not gonna cut it for the application I was trying to build. Maybe … Continue reading
Problems Installing ColdFusion MX 7
I swear, it’s not meant to be this difficult! All fired up after MXDU, I downloaded the trial version of CFMX 7 and tried to install. It gets through extracting the files, then displays the message “Please select another location … Continue reading
MXDU 05
There didn’t seem to be a lot of “as it happens” blogging going on at MXDU this year. Maybe because of all the focus on Blackstone, which people have mostly seen now that it’s officially “out”. Anyway, I was gonna, … Continue reading
CFMX 7 Released
It’s here. One slightly sad part is that the standard edition doesn’t support event gateways. I was really looking forward to playing with that, but seeing as all the sites I work on deploy to CFMX Standard looks like I … Continue reading
Mach-ii vs Fusebox 4
Over on the CFAussie list, Jason Sheedy asked this question. In his post he said: I find myself asking, ‘why OO in a web environment’ and ‘how often do you really need to re-use code blocks’? I started writing a … Continue reading
Certified
Yep, after months – nay, years – of procrastination, I finally went and did my CFMX Certification exam. I got 91%, which means I get Advanced status. Woo-hoo! There’s a whole stack of bad jokes about being certifiable that I … Continue reading
Views Are Cool
SQL Views are way cool. It’s not that I didn’t know what they were or how they worked. I just never actually saw a need to implement one until this week. But now I have, and I’ve realised they’re even … Continue reading