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IRRITATING CF QUERY ERROR AND SOLUTION 3 months ago

Today I'd like to help save someone from pulling their hair out when they encounter a Coldfusion error similar to the following: Error Executing Database Query. Incorrect string value: '\xC2\x96 OTH...' for column 'Comments' at row 1 This error would occur during a database insert or update, and …

Picking Up Where Interfaces Fail 9 months ago

What Is An Interface? Interfaces in ColdFusion are something that makes most of us turn our heads sideways and give the two dollar look. Any of us who didn't come from other languages before ColdFusion probably hadn't heard of them, and since they were introduced into CF, the majority of us …
keywords cf, goog, interface, languages, oop

Approaches to Building Strings: The Imploding Array 9 months ago

So I'm working on a method that needs to generate a potentially giant SQL script, so of COURSE I'm NOT going to use ColdFusion's string concatenation functionality...far too slow. In other words, I will NOT be doing this: <cfset thestring = "" /> <cfloop …
keywords array, cfloop, cfset, code snippets, goog, lt, quot quot, sql script, string concatenation

JBase: The Virtual Relational Database Component 9 months ago

My little pet project JBase is at a point now where I feel *okay* about letting people play with it, so I thought I'd let y'all know. For clarification's sake, JBase = Json Database, though the name is a bit misleading as the JSON portion of the code really plays a semi-minor role. In a …
keywords cf, clarification, database structure, goog, nutshell, pet project, relational database, sake

JBase Documentation Ready for Peer Review 9 months ago

The little open source project I've mentioned a time or two via Twitter is almost ready for release into the wild. All I have left to do is build a sample app that utilizes it and do a little more testing. BUT, I went ahead and did the documentation for it so that those who are curious can get a …
keywords documentation, goog, open source project, twitter, what the heck

Utilizing Multiple CFLocks with the Same Name 9 months ago

I'm working on a CFC that contains a data structure which many methods within that CFC are able to access and modify. Since this CFC will live life as a singleton, and since in theory many simultaneous users could be calling different methods that will modify the contents of this one central …
keywords cfc, coldfusion, data structure, goog, singleton

The Future of CFML 11 months ago

Everyone freshly stuffed from their various dinners and socializing, we all waited in anticipation for the start of this evening's Birds Of a Feather session entitled "The Future of CFML". The zeal and comaraderie of the group was alive and well in the room (as are all such meetings …
keywords anticipation, birds of a feather, cfml, feather session, goog, panelists, zeal

Rennaissance Man 11 months ago

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Use Case for Circular Dependency last year

Circular dependency is a concept that's been around a long, long time and most people who do OOP style programming are aware of it. But in my own personal experience, there are very few real instances where a use case exists for implementing it. I am currently working on a project, though, where …
keywords goog, instances, long long time, oop, people, personal experience, use case

Adding Mura Components to a Page Without Cascading last year

The Scenario My last Mura post was on how to include Ajax functionality in a Mura site. In my case, I needed to add this functionality to the home page (very topmost in my page hierarchy), and I did so by placing a component into that page's "main content" area. Well,
keywords ajax, functionality, goog, mura, quot