ColdFusion Web Log Entries
Five Months Without Hungarian Notation And I'm Loving It
Posted: November 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM by Ben Nadel
About five months ago, I expressed a growing concern that my coding methodology at the time was forcing me to create contradictions within my naming conventions . As such, I decided to completely dump my pseudo Hungarian notation for a while and adopt a more traditional, headless-camel-case approach to see how it felt. That was back in June; now,... read more »
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What Request Data Does ColdFusion Builder Post To Extension Handlers?
Posted: November 19, 2009 at 2:12 PM by Ben Nadel
Last night, I started playing around with ColdFusion Builder extensions, creating an extension that could encrypt and decrypt CFM and CFC files . The main reason ColdFusion Builder extensions are so attractive as a means to extend the Eclipse platform is that they are powered by actual ColdFusion files (our bread and butter). When you invoke a Co... read more »
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My First ColdFusion Builder Extension - Encrypting And Decrypting CFM / CFC Files
Posted: November 19, 2009 at 9:13 AM by Ben Nadel
After watching Simon Free present on ColdFusion Builder Extensions at RIAUnleashed up in Boston, I felt inspired and wanted to come home and start playing around with my own little extensions (get your mind out of the gutter!). As a "hello world" type introduction to the ColdFusion Builder extension arena, I thought I would try and keep it as si... read more »
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Using CFParam To Define A Variable Number Of Arguments In ColdFusion (And What ColdFusion 9 Teaches Us)
Posted: November 17, 2009 at 9:05 AM by Ben Nadel
Yesterday, I was watching an episode of " Flex and the City " (a female bodybuilding spoof on "Sex and the City") when I started to think about ColdFusion function definitions with a variable number of arguments. Most of the time, when we need to have a variable number of arguments in a method signature, we accomplish this by giving the subsequent... read more »
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Looping Over ColdFusion JSON Queries In jQuery
Posted: November 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM by Ben Nadel
I've talked to people many times about how to loop over ColdFusion queries that have been returned from an AJAX call in JSON format. The serialized format of ColdFusion queries are a bit round-about since they are designed for memory optimization, not necessarily usability. As such, I often wind up telling people that I prefer to convert my querie... read more »
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Using EXSLT To Extend XSLT With Custom Functions In ColdFusion
Posted: November 11, 2009 at 10:26 AM by Ben Nadel
The other day, I answered a question for a reader about filtering XML nodes against a value list using the XPath function, contains() . In the question, the reader mentioned the EXSLT library; I had not heard of this, so when researching the solution, I looked it up at www.exslt.org. As it turns out, there's a whole mechanism and existing library... read more »
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Tracking Google AdSense Clicks With jQuery And ColdFusion
Posted: November 10, 2009 at 9:36 AM by Ben Nadel
While Google AdSense is in no way a driving force behind my blogging - I just love being a programmer - sometimes, it would be nice to know which pages on my site generated the most Google AdSense clicks. This might be something that I can find out from Google AdSense reporting or from Google Analytics; but, to be honest, I don't know all that m... read more »
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Ask Ben: Selecting Node Attributes In XSLT Based On List Values In ColdFusion
Posted: November 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM by Ben Nadel
Ben, do you know how to check to see if a xml attribute is in a list? I'm looking at the contains() function, but I'm not sure of the correct syntax or if there is a better way, but I cant seem to get this to work. I don't know how to reference the value of the @system as the second argument of the contains. Can I used something like 'this' (minus... read more »
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How To UN-Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)
Posted: November 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM by Ben Nadel
After my previous post on how to quickly and easily take my style of formatting and strip it out of ColdFusion code , some people suggested that I make a function that goes back the other way (adding my style of formatting into ColdFusion code). While I love this concept, the problem is actually quite a bear! Removing formatting doesn't really re... read more »
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How To Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)
Posted: November 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM by Ben Nadel
At this past CFUNITED, big Dan Vega told me about a little project he wanted to show in the Demo Derby. The conversation went a little something like this (in meaning, not word for word): Ben, I love using your code; but I hate that it takes me 30 minutes to remove all of your freaking formatting. So, I'm trying to create a ColdFusion Builder (... read more »
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Matching Multi-Line Regular Expression Patterns In MULTILINE Mode (?m)
Posted: November 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM by Ben Nadel
This morning, I was (and am still) having a problem getting some MULTILINE regular expression patterns to match properly. As such, I wanted to put a quick blog post together as a sanity check for myself. As I have blogged about before , when a Java regular expression is running in multiline mode (as denoted by the "?m" flag), the "^" and "$" expr... read more »
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Tracking Request Volume Based On IP Addresses In ColdFusion
Posted: November 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM by Ben Nadel
This much less a "how to" post and much more just a " thinking out loud " post. I don't really know if I even like what I came up with; but, I figured I would put it out here in case it lead to some good conversations. In the wake of some spam comments on my site, I started to think about tracking the IP addresses of requests in ColdFusion in orde... read more »
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IIS MOD-Rewrite: R6016 Not Enough Space For Thread Data
Posted: November 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM by Ben Nadel
This is just a quick note to anyone who comes across this error. I just upgraded my blog to use IIS MOD-Rewrite using the PATH_INFO approach and when I started running the IIS MOD-Rewrite installer on my server, I got the following Microsoft Visual C++ RunTime error: R6016 Not Enough Space For Thread Data The IIS service was running at the t... read more »
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Using IIS URL Rewriting And CGI.PATH_INFO With IIS MOD-Rewrite
Posted: November 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM by Ben Nadel
Previously, I explored the concept of using URL rewriting with IIS and IIS MOD-Rewrite in order to make ColdFusion's OnMissingTemplate() event handler more effective . This worked fine with some fenagling, but Justice suggested that I take a look at using PATH_INFO. I've only briefly looked into PATH_INFO before, but one thing that I do like ab... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 9: Iterating Over Pseudo XML Node Wrappers With CFLoop
Posted: October 31, 2009 at 1:24 PM by Ben Nadel
For several versions of ColdFusion, we have been able to reference groups of XML nodes using pseudo node wrappers and struct and array notation. This has been a useful shorthand when extracting node data from an XML document; but, about two years ago, I found out that these pseudo node wrappers could not be used in conjunction with ColdFusion 8's... read more »
