Posts Tagged ‘ColdFusion’

My Resume on ColdFusion + FW/1 + CouchDB

Posted: 31st August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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The last few days I decided I wanted to play around with Apache’s CouchDB, one of the more popular database engines in the No-SQL movement. For those who have never heard of it CouchDB is a database engine written in Erlang, and is an Apache Foundation project. One of the neatest things about CouchDB is [...]

My friend, Mr. Steve Good, approached me about a problem he was having where he needed to add a namespace to an HTML tag at runtime. Essentially he was parsing some dynamic HTML and wished to inject an additional namespace into the HTML declaration. Regular expressions to the rescue! The first test I ran was [...]

Finally, as requested, my code and slides for my Dallas TechFest 2010 presentation are available for download. If you missed it I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application (could be anything, PHP, JSP, Groovy + Grails) and incrementally spicing it up with jQuery. Click here to download the code and instructions on getting setup!

Merging Two ColdFusion Structs

Posted: 3rd August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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Here’s a quick little tidbit. My coworker Steve Good asked me if I knew of a quick way to merge two ColdFusion structures together, kind of like how jQuery has the $.extend() method. Well there is in fact a way to do this! And it’s super easy. Let’s say you have structure one that has [...]

Adobe Community Professional Pins Are In!

Posted: 26th July 2010 by Adam Presley in General
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Sweeeet. I got home and on my keyboard is sitting a letter from Liz Frederick at Adobe. I open it up and discover that my nifty magnetic ACP pin is in there, as well as stickers! I love stickers!

Today was a busy news day for me. Most of it just personal stuff, but the story of the day in the world of ColdFusion is the departure of Adobe, or more specifically Adam Lehman, from the CFML Advisory Committee. I say it’s big news, but it seems to me that it will be the [...]

SES URLs With Mura on Tomcat

Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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Tonight as I’m setting up a new server I wanted to make sure I had URL rewrite ability. Normally this is no issue as I use Apache for most anything web server related. However this time I am setting up a Mura site on Railo running on Tomcat. And yes, I’m using Tomcat for both [...]

ColdFusion is a great language in its own right. What makes it even more awesome? The fact that it is a Java application. Why is this cool? Because you can dig into Java to do all the dirty stuff ColdFusion shields you from, should you desire to do so. While writing this profiling code this [...]