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Recent Blog Comments By Matt Foster

• ColdFusion Application.cfc Tutorial And Application.cfc Reference

  Posted on Jan 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM

  Hey Ben, Good stuff but are you sure you receive the application scope as a variable? Also I have another question, I define a lot of high level stuff in those methods, yet they're completely accessible to the included template. If I don't want designers muddling with that logic, how can... read more »

• Encountered "(. Incorrect Select Statement, Expecting a 'FROM', But Encountered '(' Instead, A Select Statement Should Have a 'FROM' Construct.

  Posted on Oct 3, 2007 at 10:53 AM

  I've run into this error as well using the COUNT function. It only works when i have just the function in the SELECT list and use no alias which is worthless for my purposes.... read more »

• Running ColdFusion Queries Inside CFSript Tags

  Posted on Aug 17, 2007 at 3:36 PM

  I think the real power of this technique is being able to pass that connection object to a java class constructor which could then just rely on the java.sql.Connection interface to run its methods. That way you can have java components using your persistent coldfusion connection object and they'... read more »

• My Own Hello World Java Class For ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 16, 2007 at 4:26 PM

  Hey Ben, Using java classes in cold fusion is a fantastic solution to Oh so many problems and overcomes any limitation of CF i've encountered. I've found it very easy to load classes through CreateObject. You do have to specify your class path which isn't too much of a hassle. I... read more »