Coder's Revolution

Getting Inherited CFC MetaData

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:19:00 -0500

ColdFusion's getMetaData function is a very handy way to introspect the functions, properties, and annotations of a component in an easy-to-digest format of arrays and structs. ColdFusion even nests structs to represent the metadata of the classes your component extends as well. Recently, for an enhancement I was building for WireBox, the DI /AOP framework inside ColdBox, I wanted to be able to condense all the metadata down for the component in question as well as all the components it inherits from to a single list of functions, properties, and annotations. After a short bit of Googling, I didn't find any code that did that so I decided it was a perfect opportunity to write a function that did just that. [More]

Coder's Revolution Now Powered By Railo 3.3.1

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:43:00 -0500

Well, I've done it. After all those years of threatening to get of my duff and do it, I've finally dragged my personal site and blog out of the dark, shameful hole of ColdFusion MX7 (shudder) to the bleeding edge Utopian glory of Railo 3.3.1. [More]

Error installing ColdFusion Builder 2 HotFix 1

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:34:00 -0500

So, downloaded HotFix 1 for ColdFusion Builder 2 just now and tried to install it on my Windows 7 machine. InstallAnywhere started up, but then gave me the following error:
"Unable to execute the desired program.
Please get another copy of the installer and try again." [More]

ColdBox Connection Today On WireBox 3.1 And AOP

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:27:00 -0500

Just a quick reminder that the latest ColdBox Connection starts at Noon Central today. Luis will be talking about the new features of WireBox 3.1 which was just released as well as an in-depth explanation of of the new AOP implementation. AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) is seriously cool stuff, so put your thinking caps on and come learn. You can't beat free ColdBox training! You'll find the meeting here:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Update:
Here is the recording URL of the meeting:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p1vqmd7hiy1/

Google and Les Paul

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:22:00 -0500

If you haven't seen it, Google's homepage has a very cool tribute to Les Paul. It's a live strum-able guitar. Below are some hints on how to use it for the less musical ones among us along with some recordings of mine. [More]

ColdBox Connection today on CacheBox

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:02:00 -0500

Just a friendly reminder about the ColdBox Connection meeting today at noon Central. ColdBox Connection is an online webinar that is held every two weeks by Team ColdBox to showcase a part of the ColdBox Platform and answer your questions. Today's is being hosted by Aaron Greenlee and will be discussing CacheBox, the enterprise caching framework which is baked into ColdBox as well as available as a separate utility for your existing apps. Here is the Connect room: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Hope you see you there!

My LogBox Slidedeck, Sample Code And Recording URL

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:17:00 -0500

In case you missed the ColdBox Connection webinar today and are dying to know all about LogBox, the enterprise logging library that can be used stand-alone or inside a ColdBox application, I have good news! Here is a link to the recording, my slide deck and most importantly ALL the sample code I used including the Pirate Log Formatter and the QR Code log appender. [More]

I'm Speaking At This Week's ColdBox Connection Online Meeting

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:09:00 -0500

ColdBox has an online meetup every other week called the ColdBox Connection. Just a note that the next one is this Thursday at noon Central time. I will be talking about LogBox-- the Logging framework that is built into ColdBox and also can be used as a stand-alone logging utility in a legacy app. See you there! http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/

ColdBox 3.0 Has Gone Gold!

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:34:00 -0500

I am very excited to announce that ColdBox 3.0 has been officially released. After 6 milestone releases and 2 release candidates it is finally complete. I am especially proud to see this since a number of fixes, and code submissions of my own have worked their way into the ColdBox framework, Sample Apps, and Builder Extensions over the past 2 years. A brief list of new features in ColdBox 3.0 includes: [More]

Slide Deck For My ColdBox 3.0 Preso At KCDevCore

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:22:00 -0500

Last Tuesday I presented on the ColdBox Framework to my local Kansas City user group with an emphasis on the new 3.0 features like WireBox. Here is the slide deck I used.

http://slidesix.com/view/KCDevCore-ColdBox-3-WireBox-10-preso

Generating Primes Revisited: My Modifications To The Sieve of Eratosthenes

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:28:00 -0500

In a recent pissing match between ColdFusion and PHP, Jared Rypka-Hauer was demonstrating the performance of a function that generated prime numbers. The discussion really wasn't about the BEST prime generator as much as it was about how much ColdFusion can kick PHP's puny butt all over town. Never the less, I piped up in the comments to ask Jared to compare a prime number generator that I wrote a while back based on the Sieve of Eratosthene. After Jared asked some good questions about how my code worked I figured it was time I stopped high-jacking the comments of the PHP pooper train. I decided to spin off a new post to highlight some significant performance gains I was able to produce. [More]

ColdFusion's Catch Struct Not Locally Varred?

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:05:00 -0500

When catching an error in a CFC, I've always assumed that the exception object was a locally scoped variable, specific to that method call. Some interesting errors we received from the depths of our ColdBox framework made me start to question that. I concocted a test last night which appears to prove that your exceptions are not thread safe in a CFC stored in a persistent scope. (In CF8, at least) [More]

Kansas City Designer/Developer Workflow Conference: Success!

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:02:00 -0500

Today wrapped up the two-day Designer/Developer Workflow Conference here in Kansas City. A big thanks to Dee Sadler for putting it all together and to the awesome speakers. It was very interesting to attend sessions that were not just about programming, but about the workflow we all deal with when it comes to working with our designers and prototyping applications. I also really liked the re-occurrence of topics centered around mobile development. I even found out about a local group call the Mobile Media Club that was founded by one of our speakers, Vince Vaughan. (No, not THAT Vince Vaughn) I was able to meeting some cool people I had heard of before but never seen in person (like John Farrar and Andy Matthews) and some brand new faces I didn't even know existed (like Seb Lee-Delisle, Chris Griffith, and Vince Vaughan) I'm hoping Kansas City will see some more quality training like this in the near future and will draw even more people.

JVM Args Don't Like Line Breaks

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:44:00 -0500

A brief hiatus today from from the PCI Compliance series to issue a quick public service announcement. I was installing my free copy of SeeFusion today that I netted in the recent give-away WebApper had. Since the target machine was CF7 on a OpenSuse Linux with the JVM upgraded to 1.4.2_11, it was a "manual" install. Pretty easy-- copy a few jar files and edit a few configs. The problem was, SeeFusion wasn't able to connect to my debugging port to capture stack traces and I couldn't figure out why. [More]

PCI DSS Compliance Part 2 - Weak SSL And Ciphers

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:28 -0500

The next stop on our PCI DSS Compliance tour is disabling weak SSL versions and encryption ciphers. If your site is handling credit card payments, it is undoubtedly using HTTPS for at least the pages that collect payment information. I thought I had already taken care of this item, but I was apparently mistaken. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to fix and if you're on Windows I've even cooked up a quick and easy registry file for you to use. [More]