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Recent Blog Comments By Tom Chiverton

• Ask Ben: Testing For ColdFusion Session Management

  Posted on Sep 10, 2012 at 9:29 AM

  To follow up my own ages ago comment above; isDefined('Session.foo') will throw (in CF9 anyway) The requested scope session has not been enabled.Before session variables can be used, the session state management system must be enabled using the cfapplication tag. if th... read more »

• Mapping CSS Sprite Image Coordinates With ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 9, 2012 at 4:21 AM

  Did you look at any of the (Java) Computer Vision packages out there, that should be able to do shape extraction for you ? Many links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURF... read more »

• Calculating CSS Selector Specificity Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 18, 2012 at 4:03 AM

  Interesting. I looked at this recently and just used a loop around http://cssparser.sourceforge.net to call http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors - Part II

  Posted on Apr 17, 2012 at 4:01 AM

  @Michael, Because then all your mail and template handling code is in one place. The CFC is probably a Facade or something that knows how to orchestrate the templates and CFMAIL - logic best not scattered all over the app. Tom... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors - Part II

  Posted on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM

  Very cool. Now if I could just get it working by configuring in ColdSpring I could easily (further) secure several boundaries in an application... actually, I wonder if this might be a good way to 9re)implement the remoteMethodNames property of RemoteFactoryBean ...... read more »

• Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line

  Posted on Feb 14, 2012 at 11:10 AM

  Repeat after me, UNIX is wonderful :-)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Environment-Based Application.cfc Settings

  Posted on Jul 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM

  For those looking at this from a performance point of view, it looks like config() will be called once per-request, because Application.cfc is recreated on each request and so $Config is cleared. You can store the cache in the server scope to work around that, but you might want to use expan... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 ImageResize() / ImageWrite() Bug?

  Posted on Nov 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM

  Hi Ben; did you log this in the tracker ? Do you know if CF9 fixes it ? We just got bit on CF8, and doing this: myImage = imageCopy(pdfObj, 0, 0, imageInfo(pdfObj).width, imageInfo(pdfObj).height) ImageScaleToFit( myImage, 350,"", 'highestPerformance', 1 ) imageWri... read more »