Archive for May, 2007
You could be hacked too
Sometimes I forget about personal security. From a design perspective this is a relatively easy task with acceptable solutions, whether it be hashing passwords or doing some crazy salt implementation to keep your clients passwords secure. Unfortunately I was a little lazy with my own passwords. My main Dreamhost FTP account was compromised in the [...]
Adobe releases public release candidate of ColdFusion 8 - AKA Scorpio
Adobe released a public testing version of the newest release of their ColdFusion product. Version 8 includes numerous new features, including built in server monitoring, debugging, and loads of new functions and tags.
Do the CF community a favor and Digg this!read more | digg story
ColdFusion is NOT Dying
If you’ve been keeping up with recent ColdFusion news, ComputerWorlds recent article, The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills rated ColdFusion as the #5 dying skill. If you’re wanting a bit more unresearched comments, you can also read the Digg comments for this one.
Rebuttals have been made all around the blogosphere including responses by [...]
Time to Drop IE 6?
I’m curious if anyone has had a chance to drop IE 6? I’d love to get away from it for the redesign of this site, but unfortunately that browser still accounts for 15% of hits here. While the thought of making a statement and redirecting to a “Download Firefox!” page when it’s hit in IE [...]
Feedburner and Google?
In case you hadn’t heard, Feedburner was acquired by Google. Feedburner rates as one of my favorite services I use, and a free one at that. They take all the bandwidth to run things too, so your site gets hit by less feed readers by the thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands a day. The [...]
Want to See Into ColdFusion’s Future?
Matt Woodward recently attended a talk on The Future of ColdFusion up in the DC area where a number of ColdFusion evangelists spoke about what’s in store for the language. Matt put together a detailed ColdFusion 8 overview which contains references to just about all publically available information all in one place. On another note, [...]
Validation, Business and Functional
The recent discussion of Form Validation - How do you do it?, had me wondering just what might be involved in creating an easy to use validation framework. It’s a task that might seem easy, but when you get down to all the special cases it’s anything but. ColdFusion is a language designed around rapid [...]
Make Your Blog Easily Readable in 1 Hour
There’s one thing that usually bugs when trying to find new blogs to read and that’s a lack of direction. A lot of the time the user interfaces we take for granted in the often read blogs are far from utilized elsewhere (I admit I’m guilty of some things as well). Do you ever go [...]
Creating Top Level User URLs with Coldcourse
Someone asked me the other day if it would be possible to create URLs where a users username was the first thing in the URL. Something like http://localhost/AdamFortuna for example. This is usually a problem because any rules defined as such would usually conflict with your default controller, making the previous link go to [...]
cf.Objective() Recap?
cf.Objective(), ColdFusions Enterprise Development Conference, was this past weekend in Minnesota. Although I didn’t make it this year, I’ve been impressed by the amazing number of blog posts the ColdFusion community has been making. Here’s a few comprehensive blogs that have posted very detailed accounts of the sessions they attended:
Brian LeGros posted a write [...]
