http://www.andyscott.id.au Andrew's Personal Blog en-us Sat, 26 May 2012 09:30:26 -0500 Wed, 16 May 2012 21:45:04 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss andrews@andyscott.id.au andrews@andyscott.id.au http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/pLPAHPMsTXc/Uninstalling-ColdFusion-10-problem-with-multiple-instances This is just a quick note to developers as I am sure this would not be the scenario for production systems, I mean who would be uninstalling on production with more than one instance anyway? Well unless you are moving servers that is, this is somethi... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/pLPAHPMsTXc" height="1" width="1"/> Wed, 16 May 2012 21:45:04 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/16/Uninstalling-ColdFusion-10-problem-with-multiple-instances Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/16/Uninstalling-ColdFusion-10-problem-with-multiple-instances http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/FfXf4xFhMik/Getting-better-zip-support-in-ColdFusion-with-zip4j Sometimes as a developer we need to zip files, for either archiving purposes or for other things. Java does provide a good zip utility that can handle the most basic of these needs, yet if a developer requires the need to encrypt or even provide mult... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/FfXf4xFhMik" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 07 May 2012 10:54:47 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/7/Getting-better-zip-support-in-ColdFusion-with-zip4j Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/7/Getting-better-zip-support-in-ColdFusion-with-zip4j http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/pSEr_yaS4FI/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9-part-II In my previous post I showed how by leveraging java, one could do an ArrayFind(). However it was recently pointed out that this would not work with some data types. Normally ColdFusion would use everything as strings, but every now and then some are ... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/pSEr_yaS4FI" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 04 May 2012 07:34:15 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/4/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9-part-II Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/4/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9-part-II http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/C5DlxMgy5MA/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9 One of the things that I am very vocal about in ColdFusion, is the fact that functions are added when there is no real need for it. I personally believe that the energy and resources, should be focused on other outstanding bugs and problems. But hav... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/C5DlxMgy5MA" height="1" width="1"/> Coldfusion ColdFusion 8 Thu, 03 May 2012 16:05:49 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/3/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9 Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/3/ColdFusion-and-using-ArrayFind-prior-to-ColdFusion-9 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/9kTxKwzeiLg/Scalability-and-ColdFusion-can-it-scale-and-at-what-cost I have to admit the title of this post probably doesn't fully convey what I want to talk about in this post, and maybe might seem misleading to some degree. But what I want to discuss in this post is a variety of things, one of which is the cost of C... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/9kTxKwzeiLg" height="1" width="1"/> General Coldfusion Railo Wed, 02 May 2012 11:01:46 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/2/Scalability-and-ColdFusion-can-it-scale-and-at-what-cost Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/5/2/Scalability-and-ColdFusion-can-it-scale-and-at-what-cost http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/aVX3aGTyl7c/Windows-Server-2012-and-ColdFusion-installation First let me say that the new metro interface is going to take a lot of getting used too, it is a very big move by Microsoft to do this UI on a server. Something I think might make a lot of business not upgrade for a very long time, but I guess only ... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/aVX3aGTyl7c" height="1" width="1"/> ColdFusion 8 ColdFusion 9 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 ColdFusion 10 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:16:00 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/26/Windows-Server-2012-and-ColdFusion-installation Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/26/Windows-Server-2012-and-ColdFusion-installation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/xhJmNdjBXFE/Writing-a-ColdBox-module-to-add-content-after-the-end-of-a-post With the many interception points that are in ContentBox, one of the more useful ones to add content after a post, is to use the cbui_postEntryDisplay in an interceptor. Which will provide a way to add many things to the end of the post, as an examp... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/xhJmNdjBXFE" height="1" width="1"/> ContentBox Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:44:02 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/25/Writing-a-ColdBox-module-to-add-content-after-the-end-of-a-post Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/25/Writing-a-ColdBox-module-to-add-content-after-the-end-of-a-post http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/DQI0u-WStwQ/Seems-like-the-crooks-are-getting-creative I received this in my inbox today, and it almost looked legit. The thing that had me tipped of before I looked at the document online, thanks Google. Was that it wasn't even addressed to me, well it was my email address just not my name. Anyway I th... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/DQI0u-WStwQ" height="1" width="1"/> General Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:14 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/23/Seems-like-the-crooks-are-getting-creative Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/23/Seems-like-the-crooks-are-getting-creative http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/qqHn-2jmZeA/Writing-a-Module-for-ContentBox-to-change-post-output In a previous post I talked about how using regexp from java can be more beneficial to a developer, than what the standard ColdFusion tags could offer. In this post I am going to talk about a specific interception point that we can intercept, so that... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/qqHn-2jmZeA" height="1" width="1"/> ContentBox Coldbox Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:04:13 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/19/Writing-a-Module-for-ContentBox-to-change-post-output Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/19/Writing-a-Module-for-ContentBox-to-change-post-output http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/aUx8VTz6cAE/ContentBox-problem-with-modules-and-interceptors For the last few weeks I have been trying to find a problem that just didn't make sense to me, the more I looked the weirder it got. Eventually I tracked it down to a couple of things, one being the use of ORM in the interceptor causing the problem, ... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/aUx8VTz6cAE" height="1" width="1"/> ContentBox Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:25:55 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/14/ContentBox-problem-with-modules-and-interceptors Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/14/ContentBox-problem-with-modules-and-interceptors http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/aktyanIRrDw/Advanced-regular-expression-with-ColdFusion-and-Java More and more I was starting to see a need to do more with regular expressions, than what ColdFusion was offering. What ColdFusion offers is very basic stuff, and works very well for most people. I just started to see a need to really push past that... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/aktyanIRrDw" height="1" width="1"/> Coldfusion Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:10:18 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/12/Advanced-regular-expression-with-ColdFusion-and-Java Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/12/Advanced-regular-expression-with-ColdFusion-and-Java http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/H8bdZCx6O_Q/ColdFusion-10-on-Tomcat-and-web-connectors Now that ColdFusion 10 no longer has the ability to deploy other wars onto itself, I had looked at the next best thing. Which was to install Tomcat and then deploy ColdFusion 10 onto there, in which I could then deploy ColdFusion 9 onto as well. Apa... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/H8bdZCx6O_Q" height="1" width="1"/> ColdFusion 10 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:22:00 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/10/ColdFusion-10-on-Tomcat-and-web-connectors Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/10/ColdFusion-10-on-Tomcat-and-web-connectors http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/cNvFbdSViIE/ColdFusion-Builder-and-stack-overflows-with-some-files-opened It has taken me a little while to figure this one out, but it appears that some larger files with a mixture of ColdFusion code and HTML, can and will result in two things. The most important and crucial problem is where you will get a stack overflow... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/cNvFbdSViIE" height="1" width="1"/> ColdFusion Builder Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:05:00 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/8/ColdFusion-Builder-and-stack-overflows-with-some-files-opened Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/8/ColdFusion-Builder-and-stack-overflows-with-some-files-opened http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/FuZm7kLH2Q4/World-of-Warcraft-mists-of-Pandaria-and-funny-people One thing that most people do get very annoyed about in World of Warcraft, is people who stand on top of quest turn ins, whether they are on their mount or not. But the funniest thing is when there is so many people in the one spot, trying to turn i... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/FuZm7kLH2Q4" height="1" width="1"/> World of Warcraft Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:19:00 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/6/World-of-Warcraft-mists-of-Pandaria-and-funny-people Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/6/World-of-Warcraft-mists-of-Pandaria-and-funny-people http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AndyScott/~3/cymGJAkOaT4/Designing-layouts-for-ContentBox-and-AOP With layouts in ContentBox it is very much the same if you were designing the layout for any other site, the only difference is that ContentBox provides widgets to display content, and uses Aspect Orientated Programming to provide hooks for modules, ... [More]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AndyScott/~4/cymGJAkOaT4" height="1" width="1"/> ContentBox Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:58:00 -0500 http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/6/Designing-layouts-for-ContentBox-and-AOP Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/2012/4/6/Designing-layouts-for-ContentBox-and-AOP