Invisionapp.com was built on ColdFusion
Sun, Jun 15, 2014
I'm sure most developers have run into invisionapp.com by now, but for those who haven't, it is a great tool for reviewing and collaborating on design ideas with your web design clients.
Today, I just discovered that Ben Nadel, a big ColdFusion voic... Read More
Using scrypt hashing with Coldfusion or Railo
Sun, Nov 10, 2013
To aid others in implementing scrypt using Coldfusion or Railo, I wanted to make a quick post to give you the short possible example of how it can be done.
Here is the Java source:
https://github.com/wg/scrypt/
You can find... Read More
Preventing SQL Injection attacks in my CFML application with db-dot-cfc
Sat, May 25, 2013
Preventing SQL injection attacks against the database is often something that is easy to know how to do as a developer, but also something you have to discipline yourself and other developers on your team to do consistently all the time. I often am i... Read More
CSS sprite map automation is now released as open source
Mon, May 13, 2013
Being able to generate a sprite map of all the non-repeating images used in your CSS files can help cut down on the number of requests to load your web site. This optimization technique has been used on many high profile web sites, including Fa... Read More
My first open source project is born: db-dot-cfc
Sat, May 11, 2013
I have finally published some of my work online as a free open source project.
This first project is called db-dot-cfc and it can be found on github.com right now.
https://github.com/jetendo/db-dot-cfc
I also spent a few days building an exc... Read More
PHP vs CFML Code Comparison Study: web server directory browsing
Fri, May 03, 2013
Adam Cameron's ColdFusion blog had a post on his learning PHP and he wrote some CFML which was a bit verbose. I wanted to show that CFML is almost always less verbose then the equivalent PHP. Adam's post:
http://adamcameroncoldfusion.blo... Read More
New and cfimport are slower then createobject?
Tue, Apr 23, 2013
ColdFusion 10 and Railo 4 added support for the "new" operator which can be used in conjunction with <cfimport> to allow an alternative form of object creation then using createobject().
Today, I noticed the Adobe docs claim that using... Read More
Pros and Cons of CFML vs PHP and other languages
Wed, Apr 17, 2013
It seems like the world is getting more diverse and specialized as we have a variety of choices where there used to be so few for web development.
Often, I write about how Railo and CFML benefits me. This time I'm going to point out some diffe... Read More