Coldfusion
Variable is “undefined” even with cfparam Coldfusion 9
Going through some testing as part of our upgrade to Coldfusion 9 I encountered a compatibility issue that is worth knowing about. In Coldfusion 9 there is now a variable status “undefined”, that is the variable can exist (and appear in cfdump for example) but is not usable, it is explicitly undefined. This [...]
Free coldfusion Diff comparison of HTML – CFX_CompareHTML
The Coldfusion open source community just keeps getting stronger. Whenever I talk to other cf programmers who are thinking of moving to another platform (there still seems to be a deep seated belief that CF is not a “real” programming language) I point them to great projects like RIAForge or a host of open [...]
Define shortcut keys for Snippets in CFEclipse
Something I have to continually remind myself about for some reason is how to define and use shortcut keys for snippets in CFEclipse. I’ve written about how to use snippets in cfeclipse before but failed to mention that an additional powerful feature is the ability to have them operate using keyboard shortcuts.
So, here it is [...]
Dynamic robots.txt file with .asp (or coldfusion)
Something I had to do a while back, but have had to repeat recently when setting up new servers is setting IIS to run robots.txt files as if they were a dynamic page. This is because I run a single code base that shows different languages depending on the domain being called. The process for doing [...]
gzip for coldfusion, zip.cfc – brilliant tag useful for compressing google sitemaps.xml to Gzip
Am in the process of automating the generation of google sitemaps on the sites I work on, one of the requirements is to gzip the end result. After a brief scan and simple setup zip.cfc has come to the rescue.
Download the tag here.
The manual here.