Few days back Manju logged a bug in CF-ORM saying 'lazy' does not work for many-to-one relation and that too on non-Windows machine. At first, I simply rejected the bug because a) ORM can no… Read More
When you use ORM for developing an application, SQLs are generated and executed by the underlying ORM engine (i.e Hibernate for ColdFusion ORM). However, for both troubleshooting and perform… Read More
How many times did you write the accessor methods (better known as getters and setters) for the fields of your CFC? And how many times did you feel that it was really a mundane job and wishe… Read More
If you have started using ORM (or you want to start) in ColdFusion 9, there is a nice plugin in ColdFusion builder that can help you quickly generate all the ORM code for you. All you do is… Read More
Since the day we started thinking about ColdFusion ORM, people have been raising concerns over it because of the CFC performance. We have heard people saying that ORM will be unusable becaus… Read More
Before starting on the advanced topics, I thought it will be better to build some ground and hence I decided to do a post on the ORM basics. In this post, we will build a simple example to g… Read More
As we all know, ColdFusion was born as DBML - a script that was very similar to HTML but had certain tags that could perform database operation and it revolutionized the way web applications… Read More
With the release of ColdFusion 9 beta, I am also moving my blog from blogger to a new address (http://www.rupeshk.org). I have moved all the content including comments from blogger to the ne… Read More
I am sure by the time you will be reading this, the blogosphere will be buzzing with this news :-). We just (13th July 12:01 AM EST) went live with the beta of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion bu… Read More
In case you haven't seen it yet, there is a new devnet atricle that was published this week on "Performance tuning for ColdFusion Application". Its an excellent article written by Kunal from… Read More
A new evalAtPrint attribute has been added to cfdocumentitem tag in ColdFusion 801 which is applicable when the item type is header or footer. The default value of this attribute is false… Read More
I was doing a code review for Vinu today (dont ask me which feature it was :-)) and we needed to check the reference doc for a tag. And instead of opening the local doc page, he opened this… Read More
I did a presentation on "All about CFThread" at CFUnited this year and I think it went fairly well. It was a repeat session - once on friday 21st June and another on Saturday 22nd June and b… Read More
I took a long long break from blogosphere and now that I am rejuvenated after CFUnited, I am back. :-) Thinking about it, it was a really long break - my last post was on Feb 18th which make… Read More
On friday I posted about how to read the meta-data for Swf (flash) file from ColdFusion and on the same note, I think it will be cool to read the meta-data for MP3 file as well. Here is the… Read More
Wouldn't it be cool if you could read the meta-data of Swf file in ColdFusion? The most common use case I can think of is to find the dimension of swf movie so that you can set the dimension… Read More
As promised earlier, here they come. As part of the research for Centaur (next major version of ColdFusion aka ColdFusion 9), we need your feedback on ColdFusion 8 features, what enhancement… Read More
Two days back, I got an interesting question from our support team. The Customer in this case was using CFLdap which connected to a particular LDAP server and things were working fine. The p… Read More
As part of our research on CF9 (Centaur), the ColdFusion team has come up with a survey to find out what features do you use and would like to have in an IDE for Coldfusion. Please take few… Read More
Good to see ColdFusion 8 as a finalist in Web Development tools category among Dr. Dobb's 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards. Here is the entire story and here is the list of finalis… Read More