As part of my build and deploy process I wanted to get the revision number of the working copy and append it into the application so its visible. To do this you need to have already installed the SVNAnt task, (see my previous post) as its not a core ANT task. Using the status task, […]
I went on the hunt recently for a decent suggest component for ajaxCFC and after starting to build my own I came across this example from Rob Gonda for a single suggest with ajaxCFC. The issue here was that the code is built only to work for one component on a page. As I am […]
I have just been testing our applications on the new ColdFusion 8 and everything was running fine until I tried to process a couple of payments through a test gateway on our ecommmerce modules. We mostly integrate using the XML method provided by the gateway, and therefore have to do some manipulation on the XML […]
The URL’s that Amazon returns for you through ECS can be altered to include your Amazon associates tag in the URL without you having to butcher and manually alter the URL. How? Simply add it to the request URL you use. Now all links and URL’s will be nicely formatted for you. Why do these […]
I have had a long a flirting relationship with Amazon ECS thru using it with PHP and SOAP, and now that I am totally ColdFusion reliant I have revisited the products sectionon my site, and done something a bit more useful with it. Amazon ECS is a pretty simple system. Hit a URL with some […]
I was just running the ajax examples from Ben Forta for ColdFusion 8 and I noticed that I could add ?cfdebug to the end of the URL in order to see the inline AJAX debug screen. The ColdFusion team over at Adobe have built it in to help our now Web 2.0 ajax’ed coding lives. […]
When using cfform don’t leave the action tag blank. This simple omission could you open to XSS/CSS Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. Why would you do this? Well if you use an ordinary form tag and leave the action attribute blank the form defaults to submitting to the page in the URL – the browser fills […]
Following on from my previous post, ColdFusion allows redirects by using the cflocation tag. However cflocation is only a temporary redirect and it returns the 302 http moved temporarily header to the browser: The 301 status code is used to indicate that a page has permanently moved, and to do this in ColdFusion we actually […]
Another of ColdFusion 8’s new tag features is the cfthread tag. Previously I showed you how to sleep a thread using Java and ColdFusion MX for version 6 and 7. Now the Adobe team have come up with a cfthread tag, that among other things allows you to sleep a thread: This will set the […]
