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ColdFusion Developer in AustraliaColdFusion Developer in Australiahttp://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:05:00 ESTCFHTTP bug?Can someone confirm that CF 8/9 throws an error (java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) on simple CFHTTP call? <cfhttp method="get" url="http://brad.livejournal.com/" /> StackTrace is following: ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/09/23/cfhttp-bug/">CFHTTP bug?</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/09/23/cfhttp-bug/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/09/23/cfhttp-bug/Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:05:00 ESTbugcfhttpcoldfusionerrorserverNew security hotfixes for ColdFusionAdobe has released <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-11.html">security bulletin</a> to address critical vulnerabilities for ColdFusion 8, 8.0.1 and 9 (Windows, Mac and Unix). The vulnerabilities could lead to cross-site scripting and information disclosure. <a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/841/cpsid_84102.html">Update now!</a>http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/05/12/new-security-hotfixes-for-coldfusion/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/05/12/new-security-hotfixes-for-coldfusion/Wed, 12 May 2010 00:29:00 ESTcoldfusionhotfixserverupdateImage Resize BugIt looks like ColdFusion (version 8.0.1 at least) has a problem resizing images with certain aspect ratio. Look at the code below: <div class="code"><cfset img = ImageNew("",336,448) /> <cfset ImageResize(img,150,"") /> <cfoutput>#img.width#px</cfoutput></div> What should is display? 150px? Nope, it shows 149px. Any ideas how to fix this?http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/03/19/image-resize-bug/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/03/19/image-resize-bug/Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:37:00 ESTbugcfimagecoldfusionError invoking CFC for gateway: nullAnother example of small error, which can take a lot of time to resolve. One of my event gateway has stopped working after upgrade and I stumbled across Error invoking CFC for gateway XXX: null error in eventgateway.log file. After some guessing about the cause of this error and trying to fix this and that bits of code, I have finally checked exception.log file and discovered same error, but it had more details on where to look: 1. "Error","Thread-23","02/02/10","23:29:09",,"Error invoking CFC for gateway XXX: null {ORIGINATORID={CFMLGateway},DATA={{...}}},GATEWAYID={XXX},GATEWAYTYPE={CFMLGateway}}." 2 coldfusion.runtime.AbortException 3 at coldfusion.tagext.lang.AbortTag.doStartTag(AbortTag.java:63) 4 at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:2661) 5 at cfxxxecfc750176571$funcONINCOMINGMESSAGE.runFunction(/var/.../xxx.cfc:19) So that line 19 of gateway's cfc code had <cfabort> tag, which caused the error.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/02/02/error-invoking-cfc-for-gateway-null/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2010/02/02/error-invoking-cfc-for-gateway-null/Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:30:00 ESTcfaborterrorgatewaytrickcf.Objective(ANZ), Day 1 SummaryFirst ever ColdFusion conference I have attended today in Melbourne (Australia) was not that bad at all ;-) Thanks to organizers, we've got pretty good composition of speakers and topics covered. I am not going to narrate or comment on what I've heard today at the conference, but there are few things I found interesting to mention: — CF9 seems to be a seamless upgrade for many users and provides new functionality for rapid applications development (RAD). — CF9+Solr is the way to go (drop Verity if possible). — CF Builder can help a lot with RAD even for current CFEclipse users. — YourKit Java Profiler is a nice tool for your application with memory leaks debugging. — Git takes over SVN as faster and more flexible version control system. Ah, yeap, few <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyakhnov/sets/72157622787645958/">photos of the event</a>.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/12/cfobjective-anz-day-1-summary/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/12/cfobjective-anz-day-1-summary/Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:10:00 ESTadobecfoanzcoldfusionconferenceAdobe ColdFusion Evangelism KitWhile arguing that CF is the best dead language ever in one online community with other geeks, I have found interesting PDF, named <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/adobecfevangkit091509.pdf">Adobe ColdFusion Evangelism Kit</a> and released in 2009 by Adobe. This document includes several facts and key figures to advocate your prospective clients for CF. In my opinion the best page of whole document is comparison of ColdFusion with Java/JSP, ASP.NET and PHP in terms of development timeframe and cost of ownership.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/11/adobe-coldfusion-evangelism-kit/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/11/adobe-coldfusion-evangelism-kit/Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:09:00 ESTadobecoldfusionFlex training for ColdFusion developersAre you an experienced ColdFusion developer and you've looked at Flex before and had trouble getting started? Adobe offers FREE full-day, hands-on training session, to build your first Flex application using Flash Builder 4 (beta)! This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started in understanding how to add rich UI to existing and new ColdFusion applications. Don't miss out, <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/flextrainingforcfdevelopers">register</a> now! November 13 - Plano, TX November 14 - Durham, NC November 16 - Denver, CO November 17 - Newport Beach, CA November 18 - Atlanta, GA November 19 - Chicago, IL November 20 - San Francisco, CA November 20 - Washington, D.C.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/04/flex-training-for-coldfusion-developers/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/11/04/flex-training-for-coldfusion-developers/Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:00 ESTadobecoldfusionflexRemove EXIF data?Does anyone know how to remove EXIF data from image? It looks like cfimage keeps all EXIF information upon resizing, so produced small thumbnail 75x75 px will be around 20K instead of just 2K because of extra data.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/02/14/remove-exif-data/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/02/14/remove-exif-data/Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:36:00 ESTcfimagecoldfusionexifOpenID CFC Consumer 2.0Finally <a href="http://www.yakhnov.info/go/projects/openid/">OpenID CFC consumer library</a> has been upgraded to support OpenID 2.0. All credits for this release go to <a href="http://www.richarddavies.us/">Richard Davies</a>, who solely made an update and provided it to CF community for free. New version has been tested using following OpenID providers: 1id.com, Blogger, ClaimID, ClickPass, Flickr, Google, I-name, Identity.Net, MyOpenID, Technorati, Verisign, WordPress, Yahoo and various standalone OpenID servers.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/01/09/openid-cfc-consumer-update/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2009/01/09/openid-cfc-consumer-update/Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:25:00 ESTcfccoldfusionlibraryopenidProtect your CF applicationStarting yesterday most of my CF websites are under constant attacks by bots, which are trying to implement <a href="http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/That_SQL_injection_attack">SQL injection attack</a> using additional URL parameters. Since not all applications were developed using CFQUERYPARAM tag and update of all CFQUERY calls will take a long time, simple solution has been developed to block hackers. ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/protect-your-cf-application/">Protect your CF application</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/protect-your-cf-application/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/protect-your-cf-application/Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:02:00 ESTapplicationattackcfqueryparamcoldfusioninjectionsecuritysqlFacebook Error 500: POST data is missing in the POSTStarting from mid-May my Facebook application (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6135226994">FOAF</a>) was throwing error message "500 POST data is missing in the POST" while I had no changes in the code for ages. A little bit of googling unveiled an error with <a href="http://www.nearpersonal.com/code/">Facebook Rest Client CFC</a>: ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/06/16/facebook-error-500-post-data-missing/">Facebook Error 500: POST data is missing in the POST</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/06/16/facebook-error-500-post-data-missing/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/06/16/facebook-error-500-post-data-missing/Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:33:00 ESTcoldfusionerrorfacebookError opening the editorToday I ran into the following problem while working in CFEclipse: <pre>Error opening the editor. org.eclipse.jface.text.Document cannot be cast to org.cfeclipse.cfml.editors.ICFDocument</pre> As a result of further investigation I discovered lack of permissions to a few files on mapped network drive with my <strike>spaghetti</strike> code.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/05/14/cfeclipse-error-opening-the-editor/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/05/14/cfeclipse-error-opening-the-editor/Wed, 14 May 2008 09:11:00 ESTcfeclipseerrornetworkValidate your feed!Tonight I had some time to clean up <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/blogroll/">blogroll</a> for <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/news/">CFDA aggregator</a> and noticed how many CF blogs does not validate their feeds. While aggregator is setup to fix common errors (null characters, non-standard date format, etc.), from now it will also be counting http errors and checking feeds validity to prioritize data fetching. Therefore I want to encourage you to double check your feeds and its validity. Another kindly request is to properly categorize blog entries using relevant tags. For feed validation you can use <a href="http://validator.w3.org/feed/">W3C Feed Validation Service</a> or <a href="http://feedvalidator.org/">FEED Validator</a>. BTW, ColdFusion is a single word for many years already, not <strike>Cold Fusion</strike>.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/03/03/validate-your-feed/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/03/03/validate-your-feed/Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:10:00 ESTcoldfusionfeedvalidationHMAC SHA1 using JavaWorking with <a href="http://www.yakhnov.info/go/projects/openid/">OpenID CFC</a> project I found another way to create HMAC:SHA1 string using Java: ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/01/18/hmac-sha1-using-java/">HMAC SHA1 using Java</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/01/18/hmac-sha1-using-java/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2008/01/18/hmac-sha1-using-java/Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:59:00 ESTcoldfusionhmacjavaopenidsha1OpenID 2.0 FinalLate summer 2005, <a href="http://bradfitz.com/">Brad Fitzpatrick</a> at Six Apart came up with OpenID to facilitate authenticating your ownership of a URL to another website. The driving force behind this was to enable commenting across multiple blogging sites with the need for accounts on each of these services. On 5th December 2007 <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html">OpenID 2.0</a> specifications has been released. OpenID 1.0 is largely about authentication. OpenID 2.0 adds several important new capabilities: - directed identities - attribute exchange - support or large requests and responses - robust support or extensions - support for XRIs OpenID should be viewed as a core fundamental enabling technology. It allows the authentication and exchange of account data between un-related websites. Indeed, it does not attempt to solve higher level problems, such as authorization. Instead you can invision it as the underlying technology for interactions between social networks. More than 8,000 websites currently accept OpenID and this figure is growing by five percent per week.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/12/11/openid-2-final/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/12/11/openid-2-final/Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:14:00 ESTopenidMelbourne CFUG: Meeting of the YEARWhen: 20 December 2007 @ 7:00pm Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (<a href="http://link.toolbot.com/google.com/73016">map</a>) Agenda: Dale Fraser will be presenting on CFAJAX! ColdFusion 8 includes a lot of Ajax features, and if you think Ajax is complicated, think again. Ajax will make some of the things you do now easier, and if you can write ColdFusion code, you can easily use Ajax with ColdFusion Ajax features. So if you have always wanted to do some Ajax stuff or you want to learn what Ajax is, then this is for you. Topics covered include: - CFAJAXPROXY to bind to controls and CFC's - CFGRID a DHTML grid with binding and paging - CFINPUT an autosuggest feature using Ajax binding - Javascript methods that come with ColdFusion 8 - and more RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT comhttp://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/12/11/melbourne-cfug-meeting-of-the-year/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/12/11/melbourne-cfug-meeting-of-the-year/Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:03:00 ESTcfugmelbourneInexpensive CF hosting turns into cheap oneRecently my hosing provider (HostingFuse) has decided to upgrade their hardware, what supposed to be a good move. In reality this turns into hell ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/15/inexpensive-cf-hosting-turns-into-cheap-one/">Inexpensive CF hosting turns into cheap one</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/15/inexpensive-cf-hosting-turns-into-cheap-one/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/15/inexpensive-cf-hosting-turns-into-cheap-one/Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:22:00 ESTaustraliacheapcoldfusionfeedbackhostinghostingfuseinexpensiveColdFusion Camp AustraliaCFCAMP is a free, mini-conference for ColdFusion developers by ColdFusion developers. November 2007 20: Sydney at Rydges World Square 21: Brisbane at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 22: Melbourne at the Crown Promanade 27: Perth at the Hyatt Regency <a href="http://cfcamp.eventbrite.com/">Registration</a> is free, but number of seats is limited to 100. Be there or be a .NET developer!http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/09/coldfusion-camp-australia/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/09/coldfusion-camp-australia/Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:04:00 ESTaustraliacfcampcoldfusioneventsOpenSocialToday Google officially <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensocial-makes-web-better.html">launched</a> <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial">OpenSocial</a>, a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web. OpenSocial allows developers to write an application once that will run anywhere that supports the OpenSocial APIs.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/02/opensocial/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/11/02/opensocial/Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:14:00 ESTapigoogleopensocialSitemap Protocol extended by GoogleGoogle has <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/10/tell-us-about-code-on-your-site-with.html">extended</a> Sitemap Protocol to support code files, so your public source code will be searchable via Google Code Search. Now it is possible to specify all the code files on your site, as well as the programming language and software license for each file.http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/19/sitemap-protocol-extended-by-google/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/19/sitemap-protocol-extended-by-google/Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:59:00 ESTcodegoogleprotocolsearchsitemapMelbourne CFUG (October)When: 18 October 2007 @ 7:00pm Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (<a href="http://link.toolbot.com/google.com/73016">map</a>) Agenda: Luis Majano himself is going to talk to us over Connect about the ColdBox Framework. <a href="http://www.luismajano.com/">Luis Majano</a> is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications. He has over 7 years experience in software development, networking and system design. He is also a freelance engineer and president of Ortus Solutions, Corp. ColdBox is a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications. The purpose behind ColdBox was to create a fast & stable development methodology that could be shared among several developers. It makes use of an MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern implemented via CFC's. It uses event handler CFC's that hold all the code necessary to prepare views, call model CFC's or a business layer (SOAP/WS/XML/J2EE) and render views (HTML). More information on ColdBox can be found at: <a href="http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/">http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/</a> RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT comhttp://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/08/melbourne-cfug-october/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/08/melbourne-cfug-october/Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:15:00 ESTcfugmelbourneRuby on Rails VS ColdFusionRuby on Rails commercial in the style of Mac vs PC ads. ( read more on <a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/04/ruby-on-rails-vs-coldfusion/">Ruby on Rails VS ColdFusion</a> )http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/04/ruby-on-rails-vs-coldfusion/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/04/ruby-on-rails-vs-coldfusion/Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:53:00 ESTcoldfusioncommercialruby_on_railsyoutubeTop 5 Countries For ColdFusionGoogle Analytics shows following top 5 countries visiting this (<a href="http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/">ColdFusion Developer in Australia</a>) website since its launch about 11 months ago: 1. United States 2. Australia 3. United Kingdom 4. Canada 5. Indiahttp://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/04/top-5-countries-for-coldfusion/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/10/04/top-5-countries-for-coldfusion/Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:11:00 ESTanalyticscoldfusiongooglestatisticstopThe Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Facebook ApplicationThis weekend I have developed simple Facebook application in ColdFusion â€” <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6135226994">The Friend of a Friend</a>. Facebook gives you opportunity to view friends of a single person, but not all friends of your friends at once. This application allows you easily list friends of your friends, who have installed this application too, on just one screen. More functions are coming... Join Facebook!http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/09/24/the-friend-of-a-friend-application/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/09/24/the-friend-of-a-friend-application/Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:13:00 ESTapplicationcoldfusionfacebookMelbourne CFUG (September)When: 20 September 2007 @ 7:00pm Location: NGA.net, Level 2, 17 Raglan St, South Melbourne (<a href="http://link.toolbot.com/google.com/73016">map</a>) Agenda: We have the venerable Robin Hilliard coming down to talk to use about using AIR in conjunction with SQL. One of the most exciting features recently added to the Adobe Integrated Runtime is support for SQL. In this presentation Robin will: - Show you how to use the flash.data API, - Cover what subset of SQL is supported, and - Give you an idea of the performance of the SQL engine. Robin Hilliard is founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.rocketboots.com.au/">RocketBoots</a>, a company providing consulting, training and software licensing services to teams working with Flash Platform technologies. He is an experienced software architect, with a particular focus on Adobe's Flex, ColdFusion, Flash and Flash Media Server products. Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is a certified Flash and ColdFusion developer, an Adobe certified Master Flex Instructor and has a BSc in computer science and pure mathematics from Sydney University. Robin is based in Sydney, Australia. RSVP: mark DOT mandel AT gmail DOT comhttp://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/09/11/melbourne-cfug-september/http://www.coldfusiondeveloper.com.au/go/note/2007/09/11/melbourne-cfug-september/Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:14:00 ESTcfugmelbourne