Sometimes its necessary to insert a null value into a column in a database. For example if the length of a string is blank, you may prefer null rather than a blank entry. Here is one way to achieve this without cfqueryparam: Here is another way with the cfqueryparam tag Both are a bit messy […]
Joshua Cyr over at www.joshuacyr.com has used Google’s community search engine stuff to create a search engine specifically for ColdFusion. You can go check it out over at www.cfhunt.com I think this is a great initiative and wanted to offer my 2c at helping him out. I thought it would be pretty cool to set […]
I was getting pretty unhappy with the whole question mark situation today whilst trying to debug a query. As a standard we use cfqueryparam all the time and if you get a large query with lots of variables then it can be a nightmare if you need to run it Query Analyzer. So I fiddled […]
I have a new laptop, thats another story and I this means a reinstall of all my development environment for coldfusion mx 7 (cf7), cfeclipse, sql server etc. Adobe have just released the mystic updater used with the Flex 2 stuff (which BTW is frickin awesome!) taking ColdFusion up to version 7.0.2. I want also […]
Call me a nerd, but I just made it in to the top 15 in the world on the website www.experts-exchange.com for the ColdFusion Topic Area. If you click on the link and look for the box of Top 15 you can see mmc98dl1 in the list (thats me!) I am a long way behind […]
I recently took a voyage of discovery to see how much you could do with the new and improved cfchart. Its really good, with some great features and funky animations, lots of control over labels and axis and a range of interesting charts. Macromedia LiveDocs cfchart. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough. The engine Macromedia licensed […]
I was hard pressed to find a fix for the issue that occurs in this ColdFusion Custom Tag cf_twoSelectsRelated originally by Nate Weiss. When you use the emptyText1 and emptyText2 attributes together and want to preselect values the second box wont fill out the values required. I knocked up a bit of javascript you can […]
So you have several apps on several servers, each of them load balanced and clustered using ColdFusions cool new Clustering and load balancing. But what if you need to know which of the CF instances is handling a particular request, what if you want to actually see the Round Robin happening? I found a nifty […]
When ColdFusion MX 7 came along the old ways of performance logging went out the window somewhat. cfstat got lost because it cant cope with multiple jrun instances and for some reason Jrun metrics doesn’t want to work either (at least I couldn’t get it to work). At MXDU I saw Kai Koenig talk about […]
