ColdFusion
Adobe’s commercial CFML engine, the original implementation of the language. Lucee runs the same markup on an open-source engine.
I was mostly a ColdFusion developer for my first ten years, across higher education, manufacturing, agency, and quality-assurance organizations. Back at UW-Milwaukee in 2016, the main job was keeping its ColdFusion applications running while converting them to Laravel.
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- 31 years (since 1995)
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ColdFusion cffile’s accept attribute does not work right?
Earlier today, while working on troubleshooting an issue, I started seeing some odd behavior in cffile. When uploading a file supplied from a form, the accept attribute was rejecting files that should not be rejected. I decided to set up a little test, to get to the root of the…
Dynamic creation of variables, based upon a database table
The other day, as I fiddled with my weekend project, I stumbled into a concept that I had not thought of previously. I was looking to make it as easy as possible to make the app multi-lingual. In trying to separate the application from the translations, I came up with an interes…
How to handle pagination in ColdFusion
So, you have a task where you are supposed to display X items but only Y items per page and only link to Z pages at any one time? This can be a fairly complex task. I figured that I would offer my ~80 line solution to the problem. Here’s an example of what the…
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