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Recent Blog Comments By Daniel Short

• ColdFusion 8's OnMissingTemplate() - So Close To Being Good

  Posted on Jul 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM

  Hi Ben, I use a custom 404.cfm file in IIS to get my index.cfm on the end of any URL missing it. Here's an example: <cfset requestedURI = ListRest(cgi.query_string, ";") /> <!--- strip port ---> <cfset requestedURI = Replace(requestedURI, ":80", "", "ALL") /&g... read more »

• ColdFusion Tag Parameters Can Be Included In Separate Files (Thanks Mark Drew!)

  Posted on Jun 17, 2009 at 10:24 AM

  I've always equated includes (in any language) as Server-Side copy and paste. When I'm teaching people that are having problems understanding how to use includes, I tell them to just pretend that you copy everything from the include and paste it into the parent document. This falls right in line... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 Per-Application Settings Get Partially Cached (And There's Nothing You Can Do About It)

  Posted on May 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM

  Angela and I have been dealing with this for quite some time. We ended up defining the CustomTagPaths outside any contructors, but then defining it again in the onRequestStart() to get around some race conditions we were experiencing. I think the CustomTagPaths is definitely something that... read more »

• ColdFusion Session Management And Asynchronous Page Requests

  Posted on Mar 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM

  Great explanation, and nice looking solution. I've had some issues with AJAX requests causing this same problem. I'll be playing with this solution as well. Thanks, Dan... read more »

• Copy / Import XML Nodes Into A ColdFusion XML Document

  Posted on Mar 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM

  Hi Ben, I was trying to use your previous code just a week or two ago without much success. It may be because I was trying to do something it's not designed to do. Will your script allow you to import one set of nodes into another child? For example, if I have: groups --groupread more »