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Handling Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) in Python

Jehiah Czebotar — 2010-02-09T22:39:59+10:00

Internationalized Domain Names or IDN are domain names that contain non ascii characters. It's important to know how to handle these in an application because domain names themselves can actually only contain ascii. Punycode is the way the unicode characters gets encoded into ascii characters in a domain name. Thankfully python has an encoding language IDNA [...]

Playing around with MongoDB and MapReduce functions

Rick Osborne — 2010-02-09T22:29:57+10:00

For my Advanced Database Structures course, I have a lecture on non-relational databases. Right now, it’s a little too abstract for my tastes—we talk mainly about OLAP and MDX, but it’s hard to give concrete examples without setting up an OLAP cube. We’re somewhat constrained by our learning environment: instead of using a [...]

cfUniForm v3.5 Released

Matt Quackenbush — 2010-02-09T22:29:16+10:00

I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field. Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page. A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (on

FCKEditor Firefox 3.6 Bug (Year 2010 Bug)

Rey Nacho — 2010-02-09T22:28:55+10:00

The new version of Firefox broke my FCKEditor! They didn‘t do it on purpose I’m sure, but it did, in fact, break it. I am using what I consider the standard implementation in ColdFusion (that does not come bundled with ColdFusion). I updated my Firefox to the most recent version (3.6) which [...]

generatePassword

cflib.org — 2010-02-09T22:28:22+10:00

Generates a password the length you specify.

isRFC3339

cflib.org — 2010-02-09T22:28:22+10:00

Compares a date/time string and validates it against the RFC 3339 - Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps protocol.

J2EE Session Cookies on ColdFusion / JRun

CFDEV Blog — 2010-02-09T22:27:54+10:00

As you are probably aware ColdFusion allows you to use the integrated J2EE sessions that are provided as part of the J2EE server (by enabling the Use J2EE session variables setting in ColdFusion Administrator). When you enable this setting, a cookie called JSESSIONID is used to store the session identifier. One of the drawbacks to session cookies in ColdFusion is that there is little control over the cookies that are created, you typically need to set the cookies in your onSessionStart event me

ColdFusion 9: CFSELECT + BIND + Selected Attribute Work Together Now?

cfSearching — 2010-02-09T22:27:48+10:00

In case you have been living under a rock like me, it seems the selected attribute works with bound cfselect lists.Form<cfparam name="form.foodID" default="0"><cfform method="post" action="#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#"> Favorite Food: <cfselect name="foodID" value="foodID" display="FoodName" selected="#form.foodID#" bind="cfc:Food.getFood()" bindOnLoad="true" />

ColdFusion 9: CFPDFFORM (A Tag With No Name ?)

cfSearching — 2010-02-09T22:27:48+10:00

A question about saving the output of cfpdfform to a variable came up on the adobe forums recently. As I have been doing some testing with CF9 + CFPDF this week, I suggested using the name attribute. Well I was a bit surprised when someone casually mentioned that cfpdfform does not have a documented name attribute. Huh? Scratching my head I checked the documentation and sure enough name was not one of the listed attributes. It is documented for cfpdf, but not cfpdfform. So I re-checked my code a

More Snow in Nashville

Aaron West — 2010-02-09T13:54:07+10:00

This is just a quick video of the snow that's falling here in Nashville, TN. It's the second snow we've gotten in about nine days and I'm loving it!

ColdFusion 9 on VirtualBox

Jim Priest — 2010-02-09T13:15:07+10:00

I’ve finally posted my instructions for getting ColdFusion 9 up and running on VirtualBox!Â It took me a few times to work through the process and get everything working (and documented) and at one point I forgot the password on the VM image and had to start over again.Â Oooops. Documentation is now on my wiki:Â [...]

ColdFusion ORM Gotcha - Non-String Struct Collection Keys

Bob Silverberg — 2010-02-09T13:14:49+10:00

Here's another tricky issue when working with collections of child objects that are stored as structs. Just like last time, we'll look at a Department object with a one-to-many property that holds a collection of Users which is stored as a struct. The difference this time is that we'll use a numeric property as the key to the struct, rather than a string property: component persistent="true" output="false" entityname="Department" { property name="DeptId" fieldtype="id" generator="nati

Apple Dislikes Android Reference in App

Gary Gilbert — 2010-02-09T13:14:49+10:00

The startup Flash of Genius who develops educational software recently got a letter from Apple telling the company that "it would be appropriate to remove" the reference to Andriod in the product description of their iPhone app in the apple store. [More]

ORM Entity not available? Check your logs

Ray Camden — 2010-02-09T09:46:45+10:00

This afternoon I was working on a set of persistent entities called event, eventtype, eventstatus, and eventpriority. Event is the "core" entity with hooks to status, type, and priority. When everything was done I whipped up a quick test: ... [More]

How To Create GStrings In Javascript By Extending Core Data Types

Ben Nadel — 2010-02-09T07:32:41+10:00

This morning, I was looking at a tutorial on how to extend built-in Javacript objects by altering the Prototype of native Javacript classes. In doing this, you can add your own methods to Javascript String and Array instances (for example). The down side to this approach is that this affects every new and existing instance of the altered data types (all instances of a given type share a common prototype). This got me thinking about Javascript object extension in general, and I wondered, rathe

What Happens When A ColdFusion CFLock Timeout Is Exceeded Without Error?

Ben Nadel — 2010-02-09T07:32:41+10:00

Last week, when I was working on my jQuery Photo Tagger plugin (for Flickr-style photo annotation) , I was using CFLock to create thread-safe cache updates in the ColdFusion aspect of the code. As I was doing that, it occurred to me - I wasn't 100% sure what would happen if the timeout (indicated by the CFLock tag) was exceeded and no error was thrown? In the CFLock tag, you can use the ThrowOnTimeout attrib ... Read More »

Repeat - ColdFusion 9 does NOT remove the need to var scope!

Ray Camden — 2010-02-09T06:04:16+10:00

Sorry to yell (well, we don't have to assume all exclamation marks are equivalent to yelling) but this email came in to me this morning and it is very troubling for me: I have a question for you about varScoper and CF9. As I understand it, in CF...

Housekeeping: RSS feeds fixed

Jehiah Czebotar — 2010-02-09T02:20:26+10:00

My apologies to those following my site via RSS feed; I had a snafu with wordpress after upgrading a few months ago, and it caused my RSS feeds to break. if you are reading this, everything is working fine now.

Primer on bitly.tv

Jehiah Czebotar — 2010-02-09T02:20:26+10:00

At bit.ly today, we launched a new product called bitly.tv, and it is part of our new labs.bit.ly project. bitly.tv it’s a great productivity waster if you are ever bored, but there are also interesting videos out on the web that it helps you find. Here are a few of the awesome videos i’ve found [...]

AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 Betas

Ray Camden — 2010-02-09T01:39:06+10:00

As I (slowly) try to recover from yesterday, I thought I'd send out a quick reminder to folks that the latest betas of both AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 are available. AIR 2.0 should be an amazing release. I highly recommend catching up on Christian C...

Getting Rails 3 Beta Setup

Adam Fortuna — 2010-02-08T17:23:54+10:00

If you use Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably heard by now about the release of the Rails 3.0 betayesterday. There’s been a lot leading up to this release, so naturally most of the rails world is eager to jump in and give it a try. Saturday morning is a great time to get started, so [...]

A Million Dollar Idea

Sammy Larbi — 2010-02-08T17:22:26+10:00

There was once upon a time I held some affinity for Expert'sExchange . I tried hard and succeeded at becoming an expert. I thought it might look good on a resume and in fact I got a few offers of job and freelance work from it. I was an expert at ColdFusion . A couple of the guys who I remember racing for "the right answer" are still up there, including one who came after the guys who came after the guys who came after Dain " OMFG do they really have a book on ACM? " Anderson. You might kno

Setting up access to Flex Remote Objects without access to WEB-INF directory

Justin McLean — 2010-02-08T08:49:29+10:00

When creating a project in Flex Builder if you select the application server type as J2EE you need to have access to the WEB-INF flex folder of the server and the services-config.xml configuration file of the remote server. So what do you do if you don't have access to the WEB-INF flex folder? [More]

Reading and writing and â?¦ location. Visualizing where different peformance metrics correlate.

Universal Mind — 2010-02-08T08:48:26+10:00

Our parent company, Universal Mind, was tasked by the Colorado Department of Education and Center f...

FW/1 - The "napkin" spec

An Architects View — 2010-02-07T01:00:00+10:00

A few folks have asked me to post the "napkin" on which I wrote the spec for FW/1. My "napkin" is actually Evernote because I have it on every computer and my iPhone so it's always with me and it's easy to devel...

Running Multiple Copies of ColdFusion MultiServer with Apache on OS X

Bob Silverberg — 2010-02-07T02:13:26+10:00

I've been trying, on and off, for nearly six months to get two versions of ColdFusion, CF 8 and CF 9, running in a MultiServer install of CF with JRun on my Mac. I've read all of the documentation that is available, as well as a good number of blog posts, but I always seem to get stuck at the point of deploying my CF9 EAR into my existing copy of JRun (which was installed during the MultiServer install of CF8). Everything I've read suggests that auto-deploy should work - you just cop

Coldfusion 9 Sharepoint Integration - ViewCollection

Gary Gilbert — 2010-02-07T02:11:43+10:00

In my last post on the CFSharepoint tag and ListCollections we connected to a Microsoft Sharepoint server and using the ListCollection action of the CFSharepoint tag we retrieved a collection of all the lists available to the user. In Sharepoint each list can have multiple views associated with it that show different meta-data for the list items. If you plan on integrating Sharepoint it is a good idea to provide the user the ability to choose the meta-data they want to view. In order

Book Review: Oracle SQL Developer 2.1

Jim Priest — 2010-02-07T02:11:11+10:00

I’ve been using Oracle SQL Developer I think since the very first initial betas.Â I could never stand the TOAD interface and the few bugs I encountered with SQL Developer were never bothersome enough to stop using the tool. Over the years SQL Developer has matured very nicely and now is very stable and feature rich. When [...]

ColdFusion online meetup is also downloadable

Andy Jarrett — 2010-02-07T02:09:27+10:00

Since 2007 Charlie Arehart has runThe ColdFusion Meetup(actually founded in 2004). If you haven't heard of it then think of it as an online User Group with over 2000 members and over 120 meetups so far. The problem I have is that I can rarely make the actual sessions due to time conflicts but whats good is that you have always been able to watch the recording later. One other feature though of the meetups, which is what got me blogging this post, is that you can also download the recordings in t

Coming To China: Adobe Flash Platform Summit

Ben Forta — 2010-02-07T02:09:13+10:00

I visited China several times last year, and am planning multiple trips this year, too. China is home to the second largest population of Flash and Flex developers, and it's high time those developers had the opportunity to take part in a full-blown ...

Flex: Annoyed with COMPC Ant task

Steve Brownlee — 2010-02-07T02:08:17+10:00

In my continuing journey with TeamCity, I’ve discovered something highly annoying… not with TeamCity but with Adobe. I’m trying to build a master configuration with an Ant script that will automatically build several child modules. First thing I realize is that I have to override the path properties of the child Ant script with relatives [...]

Programmatically Uploading Images To JING At ScreenCast.com Using ColdFusion

Ben Nadel — 2010-02-07T02:06:00+10:00

Here at work, we use JING all the time to share ideas; it's by far the easiest way that I've ever seen to quickly take screen captures, annotate them, and then share them with other people. When capturing part of your screen using JING, you have the option to upload it ("share it") to ScreenCast.com. Doing this uploads the image to a unique URL and then automatically copies this unique URL to your clipboard (which you can then IM to so ... Read More »

The Boolean-O-Matic: ColdFusion's Weird Relationship With Truth

Mark Kruger — 2010-02-06T03:49:07+10:00

Hello muse readers. I apologize for my long hiatus (which means a stretch of time where I was absent - it's not a size joke).  I have been swamped with closing out the old year and implementing plans for the new year. I'm afraid our little chats... [More]

Update: jQuery Photo Tagger Plugin For Flickr-Style Photo Tagging

Ben Nadel — 2010-02-06T03:04:14+10:00

This morning, I worked on updating my jQuery Flickr-Style Photo Tagger plugin to get rid of some of the limitations with the initial release. I'm still kind of feeling my way through the plugin "best practices", so bear with me.     ... Read More »

Looking for ideas on ORM Optimization (Post Launch)

Ray Camden — 2010-02-06T01:48:28+10:00

There are some really good blog entries out there on ColdFusion 9 and optimization (I suggest reading everything at Rupesh's blog). As a developer, you have multiple options for how your entities are configured, and how related data is loaded. I'm st...

A New Look for the Blog

Brian Kotek — 2010-02-05T18:50:58+10:00

Since I had a little spare time, I decided it was time to update the look of the blog. I call the color scheme "Orange Creme Blues". I went with it for a few reasons. First, I like dreamsicles and hadn't used orange for anything before, and I thought...

Form Field Values, Multipart Forms and Servlets (... oh my)

cfSearching — 2010-02-05T18:50:23+10:00

I saw an intriguing question on stackoverflow yesterday, by Tony Petruzzi .  It was about parsing form field values, but with a bit of twist. We all know that when multiple form fields have the same name, the field values are returned as a comma delimited list in CF. While that is a handy feature at times, what do you do when the field values contain commas? Well after a few false starts, I did come up with one option, but wanted to describe it in a little more detail than stackoverflow com

Spam on AllYourFlexAreBelongToUs.com

Boyzoid — 2010-02-05T18:49:48+10:00

My good friend, Dan Wilson, pointed out to me a short while ago that there was some spam that had made it onto the Flex Blog aggregator, All You Flex Are Belong To Us. It seems that one of the Feedburner RSS feeds that was being used for one of the blogs was taken over by someone else. I have updated the feed in question and have deleted the 'spam' entries. Sorry about any issue this may have caused.

Hands on ColdFusion Security Training

CFDEV Blog — 2010-02-05T18:47:37+10:00

One of the best ways to really learn about something, is to roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty. This is especially true for learning about security, it can be difficult to fully understand how attacks work by just reading about it. Jason Dean and I are teaching an all day, hands on, ColdFusion Security Training session titled Building Secure CFML Applications as a Pre-Conference session at the 2010 cf.Objective() conference in Minneapolis, MN. The pre-conference session is on April 21st

FW/1 on cfMeetup - recording

An Architects View — 2010-02-05T00:31:00+10:00

If you missed me live on the meetup, here's the recording of the presentation. My audio died around 45 minutes in and there's a short gap while I restarted Connect but it was after the bulk of t...

Mura 5.2 Released - now with FW/1!

An Architects View — 2010-02-04T17:27:00+10:00

The awesome free open source content management system, Mura, just released the latest version: 5.2. In addition to lots of great usability improvements, I'm very pleased to see that they've switched the Mura admin from Fusebox to FW/1:

cf.Objective() 2010 - Great Pre-Conference Classes!

An Architects View — 2010-02-04T07:47:00+10:00

This year's cf.Objective() is offering SIX pre-conference classes! You can choos...

Four Project Management Keys from Benjamin Franklin - Part of the ColdFusion Project Management (CFPM) Column

Fusion Authority — 2010-02-05T18:46:38+10:00

Most know of Benjamin Franklin the inventor; how many know that he was also a highly effective manager? In this installment of the CFPM" column, Mark Phillips describes some keys to project management gleaned from the life of this famous American.

ColdFusion Project Management - Welcome to the CFPM Column

Fusion Authority — 2010-02-05T18:46:38+10:00

Mark Phillips, product manager and lead spokesperson at Vertabase Project Management Solutions, introduces a new Fusion Authority column of compelling strategies and ideas for managing your time and projects effectively.

Comparing Thematic Maps with Density Heatmaps

Universal Mind — 2010-02-05T18:45:26+10:00

Now that we’ve rolled out thematic mapping by state, county, and zip code in SpatialKey, you ...

Interesting ColdFusion CFQuery "Feature"

BarneyBlog — 2010-02-05T18:44:47+10:00

And just to be clear, when I say "feature" I actually mean "completely broken behaviour," though for a change of pace it's not with the compiler.Â Probably.Â Hopefully. Consider this innocent-seeming code: <cfquery datasource="dsn_A" name=""> insert into test (s) values ( 'dsn_A - record 1' ) </cfquery> Every CF app has this (or equivalent) [...]

arrayGroupsOf

cflib.org — 2010-02-05T18:44:04+10:00

Splits or iterates over the array in number of groups.

Mad love for TeamCity – Automated Builds and Continuous Integration

Steve Brownlee — 2010-02-05T18:43:42+10:00

I installed TeamCity - a build management and continuous integration application - last night, and I already know it's the one I want to use moving forward.

Google's Static Map API

Ray Camden — 2010-02-05T14:57:13+10:00

I discovered something cool today - Google has a "Static" Maps API. What is that exactly? While Google Maps is very powerful, it requires the use of JavaScript. For simple maps, or for embedding maps into PDFs, you can't use regular Google Maps. This... [More]

CFML 101 - Grouping arrays for column presentation

Marcos Placona — 2010-02-05T02:40:23+10:00

This is an idea I got from a Rails extension called in_groups_of. Basically the idea behind this method, is to be able to get an array of any size, and split it up in groups of arrays with smaller sizes. One application that keeps coming back over and over again, is the ability to display tabular data in columns instead of rows. Imagine the following array as an example: <cfset ArrFruits = ["Orange", "Apple", "Peach", "Blueberry",Â "Blackberry", "Strawberry", "Grape", "Mango",Â "Clementine