Delving into Coldfusion, jQuery, HTML5 and Linux

Look below for a little function I wrote to convert an array to a query. I had to write this to allow for my use of java.io.File.list() rather than cfdirectory due to speed limitations of the latter. More on that with benchmarks later here. /* * arrayToQuery * Allows us to convert an array into [...]

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§120 · October 27, 2011 · Coldfusion · (No comments) · Tags: , , , , , ,


When you enable gzip, or deflate, compression on your server one side effect is your existing cfhttp requests will show “Connection Failure” even though you get an http 200 response. This is because Coldfusion doesn’t know how to decompress the response. Get get around this you need to tell the server to send an uncompressed [...]

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I love dark themes and really wisth CFEclipse installed with one standard. Found this great post from Craig Kaminsky on easily installing pre-made theme files. Check it out. http://craigkaminsky.me/cfeclipse-themerations

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§122 · June 27, 2011 · Coldfusion, Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


Guess what? It doesn’t exist. You are so foo bar! The work around is to use: include “mycfsettinginclude.cfm”; In that file just add one line, your cfsetting tag.  It’s hacktastic but it works. Oh, and don’t forget to bitch to Adobe about this oversight. sheesh!

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§123 · June 24, 2011 · Coldfusion, Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Google just released a new tool for reviewing your site DOM security. Read more and download the Chrome extension after the jump. https://code.google.com/p/domsnitch/wiki/DOMSnitchDoc

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§124 · June 22, 2011 · JavaScript · (No comments) · Tags: , ,