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cf.Objective() 2010 - Call For Speakers

Sean Corfield — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:50 GMT

cf.Objective() 2010 is ramping up and is ready for the public call for speakers and topics! We have the same broad tracks as last year:

Architecture & Design in Software
RIA: Flex/Ajax/AIR...

Little known but helpfull ColdFusion function daysInMonth

A little bit of what interests me. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:07 GMT

Need to find out how many days left in the month?

Here the solution.

Here it is in action.

SQL Server Trick: Script to Reseed All Tables

The Byte Stops Here — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:50 GMT

Sometimes, IDENTITY seeds get messed up, especially after a db restore, so this script comes in handy. It even gives a little report on what the previous value was and what the new values is. For tables that don't have IDENTITY values, it gives a clean error and skips them. Nice and easy.

Using extra CFC attributes for documentation

Polymorphism — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:41 GMT

For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML's GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.

Read on for an example of what we did.

Apache: 'No jerks allowed' | The Open Road - CNET News

Matthew's posterous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:01:12 GMT

You see a lot of people doing open source, but not a lot of people doing open development...At some open-source projects [Erenkrantz mentioned Mozilla], all of the technical decisions, even if the license is open source, are not subject to public comment. At Apache, everything is done in the open over public forums.

via news.cnet.com

This is the exact philosophy we follow on the Mach-II project, and I feel it's one of the secrets of our continued success. Letting our community know what we have planned and getting feedback before writing any code helps us meet the needs of our users better by giving them exactly what they need, not what we think they need. Springing features on users is no way to do a truly open source project. Involve your community at all levels and it pays off big time.

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FuseGuard Released - Protects your ColdFusion Apps

ColdFusion, Java, and Web Development — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:30:19 GMT

I am happy to announce today the release of FuseGuard Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion!

FuseGuard 2.0 is the new name for Foundeo Web Application Firewall, but we did a bit more than just change the name!

The biggest new features added to version 2 are the Web Based manager, and the database logger. The web manager main function is to provide reporting for the attacks against your server, but it also allows you to view configuration, and manage users.

The database logger currently supports logging to a MySQL, SQLServer, or Apache Derby database. We have made it really easy to create a database, and datasource using the embedded Apache Derby database support in ColdFusion 8 and 9 (just give it your coldfusion administrator username and password, and a datasource name).

On the security side of the product, the biggest improvement there is the File Upload Filter. This filter can block a file upload request before your cffile tag is executed based on a whitelist, or blacklist of file extensions that you specify. This means it can block those pesky MIME type spoofing attacks, and even the execute before delete vulnerability that caused Ben Forta's site to get hacked (existed prior versions of FCKeditor and Galleon Forums)

We also lowered the price on the standard version from $500 to $349, and the server edition was lowered from $1299 to $999

I would like to invite you to check it out and request a demo!

Deleting Trac Spam with Selenium

thecrumb — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:04:55 GMT

The CFEclipse Trac wiki has been polluted with spam for quite some time now. We’ve finally got the spam under control but faced a big task of going in and cleaning up all the spam related pages. I started doing it manually and quickly realized this was something I could automate with a bit of [...]

BR6 Papagaio do Futuro

Ricardo Parente — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:01:14 GMT

Recorded in October, 2008, at Vokal Xtravaganzza, Slovenia, in the same festival day where it has been recorded the amazing videos Africa and Aquarela do Brasil by Perpetuum Jazzile, BR6 is André Protasio, Crismarie Hackenberg, Deco Fiori, Marcelo Caldi, Naife Simões and Simône

Simple Query of Query

Adobe ColdFusion Cookbook — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:11 GMT

A large data set can cause performance problems if an application needs to query the database to drill down into the data to get to specific details.

Start and Stop ColdFusion 9 with a batch file

A little bit of what interests me. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:48:19 GMT

I swap between ColdFusion 8 and 9. I'd rather not have them both running locally at the same time. I have start stop batch files for CF8 so my laptop boots quicker and I start CF when I need it so I also made some for CF9. The main difference is the addition of solr service.

startcf9.bat:

stopcf9.bat: