Articles about coldfusion.
The Apache POI library is an awesome tool for messing with spreadsheets. You can read spreadsheet data, get header rows, total row count, all sorts of wacky stuff. Julian Halliwell's excellent spreadsheet-cfml library uses it to great effect.
In my last blog post, I covered how to adjust the Hibernate log level with Log4j.
Recently while working on a Hibernate ORM project, I ran into an interesting issue when an entity with relationships is saved inside a transaction.
Last night I did another live-stream where I finished the first draft of a URL shortener I'm calling "cfShorty". During live-streams I typically end up searching the ColdBox docs for help, but this time Gavin Pickin watched and commented with some cool tips, most of which I'd never used before.
If you are going to learn CFML in 2019, you need the best resources available. In this post I'll share tutorials, video channels, and even podcasts you can use to help you begin learning CFML.
In this series so far, we've looked at how to validate a form entry and how to save that form entry to the database. Today we'll see how we can notify a person (usually a site admin or editor) that a new form entry has been submitted and processed by simply sending an email.
If a tree falls in a woods with no one to hear, did it actually fall? Likewise, if a user submits a form but it is not persisted in some form, that form submission is worthless.
This series will teach you how to process form submissions using ColdFusion's CFScript syntax. In Part One I'll show you the basics of validating form submissions on the backend!
I turned a simple task (migrate data from an MS Access database) into a Lucee extension which wraps the UCanAccess JDBC driver.
Recently at Impelos I began storing dates using SQL Server's DateTimeOffset field, which allows us to store a date and time with embedded UTC offset. Unfortunately, I ran into several issues with Lucee's support for the data type.
Now, script syntax is usually straightforward, but as with any language, sometimes it's easy to get confused over certain things in script syntax. In this post I'll cover a quick list of common "gotchas" in CFScript, document the proper syntax for each, and finally link to a list of CFScript guides which may help you start writing CFScript today.
Look, I write in CFScript. Most of the CF devs I look up to write in CFScript. But maybe you don't. Here's where I convince you CFScript is worth the jump and, for that matter, just how to "jump" to CFScript.
I've seen a lot of discussions revolving around ColdFusion and whether it is inherently a "legacy" language. There are dozens of blog posts proclaiming the death of the language, and every comment seems to share a story about just how "legacy" CF is. Today, I'd like to look closely at why so many dare to call us a legacy language, and what we can do about that.
It’s popular to hate on CF. It’s popular to say ColdFusion is "dying". It’s popular to call CF a "legacy" language, and compare it to COBOL. But is ColdFusion really unpopular? And, more important… does it matter?
In this post I'm going to take two Lucee only higher-order array functions, arraySome() and arrayEvery(), and explain their use and purpose. I'll also review the concept of a higher-order function, as well as the Super Cool (yet very little used) lambda expression available in Lucee 5.
I am happy to present Five Reasons to Learn CF in 2019. I'm trying to be honest here, but you may find some bias because I love ColdFusion. There, I confessed. Read on!
Now that you've read my Why Coldfusion? post (you HAVE, right?), let's do a simple Hello World just to try some sample CF code.
I get asked this a bunch. Why are you programming in Coldfusion, anyway? Isn't Coldfusion dead? Isn't it closed-source? Isn't it expensive?
So, CFLint is super useful for CF development. There's a VS Code Extension which can lint your CF tag or script syntax on the fly, and there is also a CommandBox Package which can lint an entire folder of .cfm or .cfc files.