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I was surprised to find that you have to be careful when ordering your filters in DirectoryList(). E.g. “*.ppt|*.pptx” will not show both ppt and pptx files, while “*.pptx|*.ppt” will. Can’t tell you why, but just be aware of it.

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§125 · June 8, 2011 · Coldfusion · (No comments) · Tags: ,


When working with cfdirectory or DirectoryList you can pass in multiple filters like this “*.png|*.jpg”. Pretty simple and the pipe is easy to remember. When using cffileupload though, you have to separate your filters using a comma. e.g. “.png,.jpg” This sucks if you’re trying to store a single filter and use it in two places. [...]

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§126 · June 7, 2011 · Coldfusion, Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags:


You can pass a structure to your methods using this: myFunc(argumentCollection=myStruct);

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§127 · May 6, 2011 · Coldfusion, Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags:


Well, it looks like WOFF still has no official Mime Type since the spec is still unofficial. At one point WebKit simply didn’t support WOFF at all, this was resolved in change set 76505. However they chose to use application/x-font-woff, as opposed to the working draft which stats application/font-woff. So, while this is up in the air, [...]

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§128 · April 27, 2011 · Tips & Tricks · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


Call me stupid, but I just spent a good bit battling a CFC trying to utilize implicit accessors which just didn’t seam to be there. This all came about after reading some blogs on the subject. Come to find out that unless you’re persisting your CFC for use by ORM, the accessors are NOT created [...]

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§129 · April 18, 2011 · Coldfusion, Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: