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At Adobe MAX the ColdFusion team showed off some of the planned features in the next release code-named "Zeus". Highlights include:

0 replies - 3485 views - 10/25/11 by Sam Farmer in Articles

BeanFactory Aware Beans with WireBox

A while ago I wrote a blog post about making beans BeanFactory aware you can read it here: Inject ColdSpring into your Beans. These days I tend to use Wirebox for most of my projects. In the previous blog post I was creating DAOs on the fly and you can do...

0 replies - 3110 views - 08/15/11 by John Whish in News

How I Got Started in ColdFusion

I needed a quick way to create cheap energy and so...Ok, cheap joke out of the way. ColdFusion was the third language that I tried and I was impressed at how much I could easily. I had been hired without ever writing a line of ColdFusion and so was taking...

0 replies - 1925 views - 08/01/11 by Sam Farmer in News

How I started in ColdFusion

My entry for Steve Bryant's "How I got started in ColdFusion day".

1 replies - 2947 views - 08/01/11 by John Whish in News

Secondary Level Caching in ColdFusion ORM

I've been doing some performance improvements to a site by making use of the ORM Secondary Level Caching that is built into ColdFusion 9. Interacting with databases is a common bottleneck in applications so you want to reduce the amount of queries you need...

0 replies - 3874 views - 07/25/11 by John Whish in News

Running Servlets On ColdFusion

ColdFusion Technical Support Engineer Vikas Chandran explains how to run Java servlets on ColdFusion.TO TEST -Create a cfm page and call the Servlet [in our case the servlet name is "testServlet"] with content. note we are using...

1 replies - 3298 views - 07/18/11 by Ben Forta in News

Merging two arrays

I've mentioned this before in passing in previous posts, but I've just used it to solve a problem and thought it deserved it's own blog post! The problem I had was that I had two arrays that I want to merge into one. ColdFusion doesn't have an in-built...

3 replies - 5796 views - 07/11/11 by John Whish in News

Make ColdFusion Docs Better

Ray Camden spilled the beans on an initiative to make ColdFusion online docs better. Read his post and get involved!

0 replies - 3756 views - 06/29/11 by Ben Forta in News

Getting started with LogBox and ColdBox

I've been working on a ColdBox 3 site and decided to give in the in-built logging (with LogBox) a go. I thought I'd do a quick blog post to demonstrate how to use it as I found the docs a little bit confusing. LogBox can be used standalone, whereas when...

0 replies - 3775 views - 06/28/11 by John Whish in News

Technique For Managing Form Input in Model-Glue

I've been meaning to post about this technique I'm using in some of my Model-Glue applications, but I couldn't decide on the best way to explain what led me to develop it.  So I'm going to start with the code first rather than the explanation:

0 replies - 4099 views - 06/27/11 by Brian Swartzfager in News

Preserving large numbers in Query or Query

I hit a problem with QueryNew recently which caused a few headaches because 13 digit strings were being converted to standard notation. This is a pretty unusual use-case but I thought it was worth blogging anyway. I've got an admin for products where you...

1 replies - 3791 views - 06/24/11 by John Whish in News

View ORM queries in page debugging

One of the things that I really love about Coldfusion 9 is the hibernate integration (ORM). The only thing that irriates me about using the ORM features is that the generated SQL is hidden away from you the developer. You can set up your ColdFusion...

0 replies - 4148 views - 06/22/11 by John Whish in News

Auto Insertion of Tag attributes and Function arguments in ColdFusion Builder 2

The Editor is the most important feature in an IDE and the code assist features in the Editor helps in developing applications quickly and hence help in increasing the productivity. One of features is the 'Auto insertion of tag attributes'. Most of the...

0 replies - 3515 views - 06/21/11 by Sagar H Ganatra in News

Comparing two Objects

I recently wanted to compare two objects to see if they were the same. After looking through the cfml ref I couldn't find anything, but I did find that you can use ArrayFind to do it. Here's a quick test I wrote: Foo.cfccomponent { this.uuid =...

1 replies - 4465 views - 06/20/11 by John Whish in News

ORM hibernate sessions

I see quite a lot of confusion about how hibernate sessions work in ColdFusion 9's ORM (and I find it confusing as well!). So I thought I'd put together various examples to see what happens. These code samples are for ColdFusion 9.01 so if you're using...

1 replies - 4728 views - 06/19/11 by John Whish in News