Category: ColdFusion

ColdFusion 9 Feature Request: Drop Ajax/JS libraries

Yes, I said it. Going forward I do not think that Adobe should waste time on implementing JS Code libraries. Ext, YUI and others exist so you can easily integrate them into your code already. In the last few months alone I believe there have been 2 or 3 version upgrades alone of the Yahoo YUI tool and a 1 major version upgrade for Ext.

If you want to have an AJAX driven drop down, write it yourself or download a custom tag, or better yet; write the custom tag yourself and distribute it freely. I would much rather see the time spent by engineers working on ColdFusion spent working on the server side portion of ColdFusion vs. doing these seemingly 'cool' integrations. Don't custom tags exist for this purpose alone? Why build it into a server side product?

I'm tired of seeing posts and emails and requests to implement further feature sets, upgrade versions or change libraries all together. ColdFusion does not need to be my meeting ground of technology. If you had spent 2 more minutes writing your code you could have implemented the Ext library yourself, probably done a better job and you won't be beholden to a server side technology for your client side code...

Flame on

25 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:35 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | YUI | JavaScript

New Version of Feed Ping for Mango Blog

I have made some more updates to my Auto Ping Plugin (1.1). I'm much happier with this version. I've included more hardcoded XML-RPC options as well as adding 5 custom XML-RPC url options. There is now a logging option that was a 1.05 feature. for right now I just put a FeedPingLog.txt into the root of the website. I will probably put this in a better place at a later time.

The new built in list contains: BlogFlux, BlogShares, BlogRolling, BulkFeeds, Feed Burner, Google, Ice Rocket, Moreover, Ping-o-Matic, Syndic8, Technorati, Weblogs and Yahoo.

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

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2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:40 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

Download my Mango Theme

I'm not sure if anyone would be interested but I've wrapped up my enhanced skin and I'm making it available to anyone who wants it. I liked the Nautica 05 skin that came with Mango, but it was just a little too chunky for me.

A few of my changes include

• Shrunk top image giving more room for vertical text
• Added a text-bubble to the image for your blog's description
• Move the search to the top right of the page
• Added links for RSS and Atom instead of just RSS
• I have removed the left nav bar on sub pages and only show children elements
• Main nav bar hight is shorter giving again more vertical space
• And I can't forget my amazing 1bit pedestrian
  

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:38 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

New Mango Blog Plugin: Auto Ping

I've created a new plugin for the ColdFusion Blog Mango. I've recently switched to this blog software and I am very impressed with it so far. I quickly whipped up this plugin last night so I could regain the auto-ping feature I remember having in BlogCFC.

The plugin it's self was VERY simple to write and from looking at thier documentation the limits are endless.

Included is the ability to ping 5 hand written URLs (like MXNA) and several XML-RPC sites, although right now the list is small. I will be updating this in the future and adding many more I hope. I'm certainly willing to take any suggestions on which ones are used the most.

• Technorati
• Ice Rocket
• Weblogs
  

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository

2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:12 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

Are all your CFC variables Scoped? Find Out!

I was reading Ray Camden's blog and my interest got peeked by his post on a CF app called varScoper. I downloaded the app from RIA Forge and had it parse my MachBug's source code within about 30 seconds. Depsite how meteculous I try to be with my scoping I was suprised when I found almost a dozen fumbles in my ruffly 320 cffunctions spread across 39 CFC files.

I had never thought of whipping something like this up, but this would be fantastic rehashed as an Eclipse plugin...

Untill then, I definetly recomend you check out this helper app (varScoper).

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 1:04 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Debugging | Reviews | Development

ColdFusion to Confluence Gateway/API

I needed to write some import scripts to move data from a dozen or so seperate simple apps into a  Confluence Site [Atlassian]. The Confluence SOAP API is actualy very nice. My only major complaint so far is that there is no way to find out what the current version of a file is, aside from looping from version 1 - * until you get an error.

I wanted to write a single wrapper that would maintain my connection and handle some translation into some more friendly functions, so I wrote this API Interface. I didn't include a lot of commentary, although in a future release I will make sure to add more. That said, it should all be fairly self explanatory.

Download ColdFusion to Confluence Gateway/API

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:07 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Confluence | Development

ColdFusion 8 Hotfix (Flex2 Remoting Patch)

Adobe has released a Hot Fix for ColdFusion 8.0 & 8.0.1; the patch fixes a security issue regarding ColdFusion Components with public access being invoked from flex2 remoting.

http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403328

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 8:23 AM - Categories: ColdFusion