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• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 31, 2012 at 5:58 PM

  @Shawn, a friendly suggestion is ok, but that is very rarely what happens and is certainly not how your coming across either, I cannot imagine the "do it this way or you are shit, your code is shit and should never ever touch code again" approach is really going to come across too... read more »

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 30, 2012 at 10:00 PM

  @Shawn, If you disagree with Adobe's definition of ColdFusion (and Macromedia's before them, and Allaire's before them) and where you think it is headed, then I can only suggest you contact Adobe directly and take that up with them. Personally I like CFML and i'm more into supporting... read more »

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 30, 2012 at 8:52 PM

  @Shawn, I wont attempt to argue with you over what CF is, I can only suggest you go and read the cf docs at www.adobe.com and get confirmation from Adobe themselves about what CFML is classed as, it has been the same since the days of Allaire, you should also read up on what makes a framewor... read more »

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM

  @Matt, I am guesing you only do cf, cozz newbie or poor developers write spagetti code in all languages, cf has no patent on this. In fact spagetti code in cfml is still better than other languages due to the fact that cfml is in itself a framework which encapsulates much complex code... read more »

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Sep 17, 2012 at 4:17 AM

  Sadly whenever oop comes up everyone forgets what made cf popular to begin with and what jeremy Allaire`s original goal was. Whenever anyone new to cf asks for help, oops is usually rammed down their throat and they are told they must use it or their code is crap. While oop has its plac... read more »

• Monitoring The ColdFusion Mail Server With GMail And A Scheduled Task

  Posted on Jan 18, 2012 at 7:18 PM

  eremiya, there is an option in your gmail settings to add nick names/aliases, if you use this then you should be able to send emails FROM those addresses as well.... read more »

• Monitoring The ColdFusion Mail Server With GMail And A Scheduled Task

  Posted on Jan 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM

  If anyone is interested I have done a cfrespooler extension for the cfadmin which automatically handles your undelivered mail. I will also be adding a feature to this which will monitor the spool folder for problems and will first try resetting spool and then send out an alert either via CFM... read more »

• Making SOAP Web Service Requests With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on Mar 19, 2011 at 4:51 PM

  The problem with publishing CF web services to be consumed by anything other than CF is that it generates an awful SOAP responses. Instead of <element1> <element2> <param1>value</param1> <param2>value</param2> &... read more »

• AxisFault: ColdFusion Web Services And XML Data Types

  Posted on Mar 17, 2011 at 5:29 AM

  it actually turned out to be a Red Herring Ben, I deleted the web service from the cfadmin and it then worked. So that is 3 hours of my life wasted debugging a bug that did not exist :-) As a side note to anyone reading, I believe this was sort of caching issue. This is a remote monit... read more »

• Understanding The Basic Authentication Request-Response Life Cycle

  Posted on Mar 17, 2011 at 5:23 AM

  The problem with ColdFusion authentication is that it only protects ColdFusion pages. Any non CF pages are still open to the world. .htaccess style auth protects everything in the folder, and you can also progmatically manage users/groups via CFML so you actually have MORE control than you d... read more »

• AxisFault: ColdFusion Web Services And XML Data Types

  Posted on Mar 16, 2011 at 7:49 PM

  I have a kind of similar problem I think. I am passing some XML as one of the arguments to my web service, it works fine on CF9 locally and CF8, but on live CF9 server it will not accept the XML and the web service fails with error below. I have tried passing the XML as an XMLDoc and a... read more »

• Understanding The Basic Authentication Request-Response Life Cycle

  Posted on Mar 15, 2011 at 7:48 PM

  Hey Ben, If you need to password protect areas of your sites then .htaccess is by far the best way. From what you have said I am guessing your are running IIS on your live server, in which case try IISPASSWORD, which works the same way as .htaccess. read more »

• Using GMail's Plus-Style Addressing To Track Bounce Back Email Meta Data

  Posted on Mar 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM

  nice article Ben. You can actually send email from a different address using GMAIL which may also solve your FAILTO addressing issues as well, here is how. http:... read more »

• Building A Branded Jing Image Viewer Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 5, 2011 at 8:25 AM

  Lets hope she is not Ben's wife then :-) Personally I wouldn't mind meeting her in dark alley :-)... read more »

• LOCAL Variables Scope Conflicts With ColdFusion Query of Queries

  Posted on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:17 PM

  I had a similar problem back in 07, not quite the same result, but the same cause. Here is my scenario in case it helps anyone. http://russ.michaels.me.uk/index.cfm/2007/7/3/Query-of-Queries-quirks... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Builder Extension - Encrypting And Decrypting CFM / CFC Files

  Posted on Jul 21, 2010 at 7:29 AM

  @Ben Nadel, I'm trying to decrypt some cfreport files, these are several years old so are probably cf6/7 I actually can't get any cfm files at all to decrypt, they all come out as zero byte.... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Builder Extension - Encrypting And Decrypting CFM / CFC Files

  Posted on Jul 6, 2010 at 9:04 AM

  being as you posted this in 2009, I presume the cfdecrypt works fine with CF8? I just downloaded it from the adobe exchange and it wont decrypt anything, I just get 0 byte files.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Converting XML Data To ColdFusion Queries

  Posted on May 13, 2010 at 1:58 PM

  @Erik Ickes, you need to look at event gateways, although this will only help if the feed is actually being pushed out. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion... read more »

• Ask Ben: Converting XML Data To ColdFusion Queries

  Posted on Jan 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM

  There is also a rather handy tags that convert XML to cf structures for easier handling. CFX_XML http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1002... read more »

• Circumventing ColdFusion Component Security Using Dynamic Methods

  Posted on Feb 20, 2007 at 1:26 PM

  Sorry but this is absolutely not a security issue. In order to do this you need full access to the source code to insert your snooper function. If you have full access to the code then you can do anything you like, as you should of course be able to. This would only be an issue i... read more »