Monthly Archives: April 2007
- April 25, 2007
- Image manipulation with imageCFC v2.14
Update: as of May 30th 2007 version 2.17 has been released! See the site for more information Ok so I’m a little late on this one, but the new version of imageCFC (v2.14) was released on March 7th 2007. The big feature add is exact size thumbnails using the “cropToExact” argument of the “resize()” method: [...]
- April 24, 2007
- Unwanted ColdFusion form validation
I came across something strange today when developing a web form. Basically I had a form field with a name/id of “restoration_required” but when I submitted the form I got the following error: Now Geoff Bowers happened to be standing nearby and was kind enough to point out that this looked like a <cfform> validation [...]
- April 23, 2007
- Farcry 4.0 filename standards
Here at Daemon we are looking at standardising the FarCry core codebase in an effort to reduce any case-sensitivity issues that may be found when running FarCry on different platforms. These problems usually arise when dealing with filenames of any type (.cfc, .cfm etc), indeed I ran into an issue today with an external developer [...]
- April 11, 2007
- Combining insert and update SQL logic
*Note that this example is using MSSQL with an Identity set to generate the primary key automatically. An all too common process developers go through when building database driven web applications is creating logic to INSERT a record when one doesn’t exist, and UPDATE a record when one does exist. This often leads to conditional [...]
- April 10, 2007
- cfquery ‘result’ attribute caveat
A great feature of <cfquery> which was introduced in CFMX7 is the addition of the ‘result’ attribute. When used, a developer can access a Structure of query result variables including the following keys: Cache ColumnList ExecutionTime RecordCount SQL SQLParameters You can read more about the ‘result’ attribute in a previous post or at Live docs. [...]