Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog

CFUNITED 09 - Early Bird Ending Soon...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:06:00 -0400

Just a quick note to remind folks that the early bird registration for CFUNITED 2009 will be ending on the 31st. Register today! (Yes, right now, stop what you are doing, don't Twitter, don't get more coffee, just go and register already!)

Using jQuery to validate the sum of form fields

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:10:00 -0400

Christian asked an interesting question yesterday. The solution ended up being rather simple, but I wasted (well, wasted may be a strong term) time trying to solve it in an overly complicated manner. One of the things I've learned when it comes to Co... [More]

CFLib Submissions

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:12:00 -0400

Just a quick note. I know that CFLib submissions are borked. When I did my SQL Server migration last week, I forgot to enable the migration of the extended stuff like PKs, indexes, etc. I've fixed the blog database just haven't gotten to CFLib yet. S...

Ask a Jedi: How secure are the username/password values of a ColdFusion Scheduled Task?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:23:00 -0400

Kay asks: How secure are the usernames and passwords of scheduled tasks in the ColdFusion admin console? I think the answer is - it depends. I did a quick test and added a username of 'user' and password of 'pass' to a scheduled task. I...

Simple example of a Form post to ColdFusion with jQuery - Login

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:02:00 -0400

A few days ago I blogged a simple example of doing an Ajax form post with jQuery to a ColdFusion page. Today I'd like to build upon that simple example by demonstrating a login process that uses jQuery to fire off the authentication requests. I know ... [More]

Want to learn ColdFusion (again)?

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:09:00 -0400

A few days ago I blogged about an announcement from Adobe that they were releasing a free ColdFusion curriculum. This weekend I got an email from Cody asking about learning ColdFusion in general: Hi, I am a new ColdFusion developer. What are s... [More]

InsideRIA Links for March 8-21, 2009

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:47:00 -0400

I forgot to blog this last weekend, so here are the articles I've published over on InsideRIA from the past two weeks. What in the heck is JSONP and why would you use it? jQuery FTW for March 13, 2009 Mimicing Twitterfalls Short URL Replaceme...

Friday Puzzler - Gold baby, pure gold...

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:33:00 -0400

Earlier today Andy Sandefer sent me a message saying he that he thought my blog had a 'golden birthday' today. He saw 2009 ColdFusion blog entries (i.e., 2009 entries in the CF category, not total) and the year was 2009. A golden birthday is defined ...

Simple example of a Form post to ColdFusion with jQuery

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:01:00 -0400

Following up on my earlier post demonstrating loading ColdFusion query data via jQuery, I've decided to do a few more simple jQuery+ColdFusion examples to give folks a taste of how easy it is to work with them both at the same time. For today's entry... [More]

Quick Transfer Tip

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:15:00 -0400

Using an ORM means never having to write SQL. Well, ok, maybe not. As much as I love Transfer (and am beginning to love Hibernate), there are still times when you have to resort to writing SQL. Here is a quick tip. Using getDatasource() to get acc...

Want to learn ColdFusion?

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:41:00 -0400

Earlier today Kristen Schofield posted about a new curriculum available for learning ColdFusion. The curriculum consists of two PDFs (not sure if code is included, didn't see it) and the coverage appears to be quite intensive. I'm a bit puzzled by so...

More sessions announced for CFUNITED...

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:28:00 -0400

Just a quick update to let folks know that more sessions were just announced for CFUNITED09. Included in this list is one of my sessions - Charting and ColdFusion. This will be a review/examination of some of the charting options people have with Col...

Simple example of loading a ColdFusion query with jQuery

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:37:00 -0400

Earlier last week a reader (and forgive me, I wrote down your idea, not your name) asked for a simple demonstration of how to use jQuery to load in a ColdFusion query via Ajax. I whipped up a quick, and hopefully simple, set of demos to help show how... [More]

Multi-file search and replace in Eclipse

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:55:00 -0400

Ok, a big thanks goes out to Scott Stroz for this one. I've been using Eclipse for a while now but never needed to do a multi-file search and replace until last week. Turns out it is rather simple, but I had never really noticed the feature before. I... [More]

Today is Fail Day... (Looking for MySQL, Vista, whatever else help)

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:59:00 -0400

So my move to a new server hit a major road block. As of this morning I had migrated some smaller sites, ColdFusionBloggers, CFCookbook, to a new VPS running IIS7 under Windows Datacenter Server 2008. Everything was fine. Of the sites I moved, CFB wa...