Monthly Archives: October 2006

October 22, 2006

cfeclipse snippets

The eclipse/cfeclipse combinations makes for a pretty powerfull developing tool for ColdFusion programmers, even those who miss the good old days of using Homesite!
One of the cool things cfeclipse brought over from Homesite is snippets, but cfeclipse has a few extra goodies to make them better than ever
Whereas in Homesite you would assign [...]

October 20, 2006

Building accessible tables

These days all the rage is building web pages without tables, but has this gone too far for a lot of developers?
I’m of the opinion that HTML tables shouldn’t be used for layout purposes and I think most would agree, if you don’t please let me know because I’d love to hear the reasoning [...]

October 18, 2006

varScoper 1.0 has been released

Today Mike Schierberl released his varScoper 1.0 tool for identifying variables that haven’t been locally scoped within cffunctions (whether they be in .cfm or .cfc files).
Looks like there may be some slight tweaking for *nix systems or macs, and there is no cfscript support but all in all a great tool. I bet you’d be [...]

October 17, 2006

Making ColdFusion sleep

Often times you want the server to pause execution of a page, or go to sleep for a short while. You may be waiting for a file to be written to the file system etc.
You can do achieve this in the following fashion:

<cfset createObject(‘java’, ‘java.lang.Thread’).sleep(5000) />

The example above makes the server call “sleep” for 5 [...]

October 14, 2006

Validating a user defined password with reg exp

A nice little reg exp from the ColdFusion Cookbook when you need to make sure a users new password (which they are setting) contains at least 1 letter and 1 number.
You can also make sure the password length is within a range, the following makes sure the password is between 6 and 15 characters long.

Don’t [...]