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Looping Over Java Arrays In ColdFusion 27 Aug 2013 | 07:06 am
This is a really small blog post, but something that I've been truly appreciating as of late. Previously, I've blogged about ColdFusion 10 and the ability to loop over queries using the for-in syntax ...
CFLive.net Lets You Run Adobe / Railo ColdFusion Code On-Demand 22 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Yesterday, Adam Cameron brought CFLive.net to my attention. This site, by Russ Michaels , allows you to paste ColdFusion code into a textarea and then execute it in either an Adobe ColdFusion or a Rai...
Default CFParam Expressions Are Always Executed In ColdFusion 22 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
Yesterday, my world was somewhat rocked when I discovered that default CFArgument expressions are executed only as-needed in the ColdFusion runtime . This was awesome news; and, it made me wonder if I...
Default Argument Expressions Are Executed Only As-Needed In ColdFusion 21 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
For all the years that I've been writing ColdFusion code, I have always just assumed that default-value expressions for optional arguments were executed whether or not they were needed. I assumed that...
Publishing Software Libraries With An Optional External Class Loader 20 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
This morning, I was going to tinker with creating a ColdFusion component wrapper for the parts of the Google Closure compiler that I looked at over the weekend . But, when I sat down to code, I realiz...
The User Experience (UX) Of Writing Personal Emails For Sales And Marketing 19 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
I get a ton of email. A large portion of this email is sent out by software systems as part of their company's sales and marketing efforts. There's a clear trend in these emails to take on a more pers...
Calling The Closure Compiler From ColdFusion And Java 19 Aug 2013 | 06:57 am
Last week, Jon Dowdle and I were trying to get Google's Closure Compiler to concatenate, compact, and optimize a number of JavaScript files in the InVision code-base. The task proved more difficult th...
The User Experience (UX) Of Pausing Automatic Investments At The Vanguard Group 16 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Things are a little financially tight for me right now; so, I felt it would be prudent to pause the auto-payments I make into my retirement account at The Vanguard Group. Before I did this, I went int...
The User Experience (UX) Of Rating Things 14 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
The other day, I was thinking back to the year 2000 and the website, Hot-or-Not. If you are not familiar with this website, the concept was simple: men and women uploaded their photos and then you rat...
Sending Client-To-Client Realtime Messages With Pusher App And ColdFusion 13 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
When it comes to pushing realtime messages using WebSocket Software as a Service (SaaS) libraries, I love Pusher App and PubNub . While both services provide the same basic features, I had thought tha...
