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• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 6, 2013 at 3:55 PM

  Just wanted to drop a note that cfpayment ( http://cfpayment.riaforge.org ) will have full Stripe support soon as I'm implementing a version of Phil's code above. We will also have Dwolla support soon.... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Sep 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM

  @Ben - a thought for you. You are up on REST APIs so think of your Service Layer like a REST API. Does your API know where/how/why developers are making requests? Nope. There should be a similarly agnostic split between your Controllers (which are shuttling data to/from the user and the view)... read more »

• Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM

  Eric, if you're still out there, would you consider this page authoritative for CF8+ on how to support i18n for CF? http://mysecretbase.com/ColdFusion_and_Unicode.cfm It seems to incorporat... read more »

• Redirecting Static Requests To Amazon S3 Using IIS Mod-Rewrite Or Apache Mod-Rewrite

  Posted on Apr 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM

  @Ben - it's a little better than the right track, it's production code for 2 years. ;) The trick to S3, if you don't step up to CloudFront, is that it's just a dumb content store. It won't do any of the things that we take for granted with Apache so you have to do it before you upload the... read more »

• Redirecting Static Requests To Amazon S3 Using IIS Mod-Rewrite Or Apache Mod-Rewrite

  Posted on Apr 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM

  @Ben - some thoughts for site "roots", here's something I pulled from my system: <cfset var cfg = getThemeService().getConfig() />   <!--- determine HTTP/HTTPS and current WEB_HOST ---> <cfif (isBoolean(cgi.server_... read more »

• ColdFusion CFMailParam's New "Content" Attribute Is Awesome

  Posted on Oct 6, 2009 at 2:58 PM

  I really need to read the what's changed documentation better. Thanks Ben! :)... read more »

• ColdFusion CFMailParam's New "Content" Attribute Is Awesome

  Posted on Oct 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM

  @Ben - what happens when using the content attribute if you have mail set to spool? Does CF write out a temp file somewhere or does this force it to send on-the-fly?... read more »

• Short-Circuit Evaluation Is Fast

  Posted on Jun 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM

  Actually I may be wrong here - cookies get set early on in the request lifecycle even if they don't stick. I am pretty sure I need to use my own cookie rather than one of the built-ins. Like: structKeyExists(cookie, "NEEDCOOKIES") And set it AFTER that check, meaning your first requ... read more »

• Short-Circuit Evaluation Is Fast

  Posted on Jun 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM

  I have something similar in mine but I use a different tack; I set the session timeout shortly for any agent without a cookie.jsessionid (using j2ee sessions). You might consider using that as your first IF check since a bot won't have a cookie.jsessionid (or a cfid/cftoken).... read more »

• ColdFusion CFMailParam's New "Content" Attribute Is Awesome

  Posted on Jan 24, 2009 at 8:34 PM

  Ben, have you had luck actually receiving these emails? Running your example as-is doesn't work for me in Thunderbird 2. And based on these tests, image embedding is highly unreliable in general. It's a great technology but has been abused to death by spammers it seems. :( read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamically Executing ColdFusion Application.cfc Instances

  Posted on Oct 23, 2008 at 1:37 AM

  In the example where you extend a top-level Application.cfc with a sub-directory Application.cfc; can you modify parameters *other than name* and still share the application scope? E.g., could I have a subdirectory with session management disabled but still share the same Application scope as my... read more »

• Tracking Delta-Only Data Audits In ColdFusion Using XML

  Posted on Jun 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM

  In reading this and the last post, I don't see why you can't have both combined into one? Honestly, I think the more comfortable you become with databases, the more likely the trigger solution will feel like the "right" one for you. I generally try to keep to fairly generic SQL because it makes... read more »

• ColdFusion Query of Queries And Undefined Cell Values

  Posted on May 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM

  Ben, Have you experienced this on CF8? I get this problem on CF7 with a reporting suite that I built but I haven't tried running the app on CF8 yet. Wondering if there have been any fixes in this area?... read more »

• Regular Expression On-The-Fly Testing For ColdFusion, Java, And JavaScript

  Posted on Apr 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM

  I swear Ben... you keep coming up #2 in Google every damned time I search for something! I place bets with myself when I hit the enter key to see where you'll show up in the search results. I'm interested in how you're converting from ColdFusion to Javascript regexps and back - is there so... read more »

• ColdFusion Session Management Revisited... User vs. Spider III

  Posted on Mar 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM

  It's definitely not required for the referrer to be provided so you can't count on this. It will get dumped in a lot of cases. You could use it as a component of a check but I think the best solution (using a cookies check) to date was posted on a mailing list yesterday. I summarized it on my... read more »

• ColdFusion Session Management Revisited... User vs. Spider III

  Posted on Mar 26, 2008 at 11:44 AM

  Ben, Came across the post via CFGURU; was wondering a couple of years later if this is still your preferred method for combating spiders? Brian PS - Whenever I search for something CF related, you seem to have a post come back in the first 3-5 results on Google. Either we are... read more »