Category Archives: ColdFusion
- December 4, 2008
- How to do a case-sensitive test of your codebase– also posted in Farcry
Cross platform development and/or hosting makes for interesting times. Making sure that your entire codebase and configuration are compatible and work in different operating environments is obviously paramount to a successful project, particularly if you are “releasing” a product to the public either open source or commercially. At Lynch Consulting all of our production servers [...]
- December 3, 2008
- Querying multiple databases within one cfquery– also posted in Databases
In discussing a possible caching solution at work a suggestion was made to use a secondary database (on the same server) to store some key application data. It’s not really important to describe why we wanted to do this, suffice to say that my concern was if and when the application would need to perform [...]
- November 28, 2008
- Installing a new FarCry 5 project – (Extended) Advanced Mode– also posted in Farcry
There are several installation options for the latest version of FarCry (5.0.2) which makes things nice and flexible for the framework to be used by different people in a variety of setups. The deployment configurations page has some easy to follow instructions for installing in “Standalone” mode. This is really the best option if you [...]
- November 25, 2008
- Security reminder – Are you using scriptprotect?
One of our applications had an entry in the ColdFusion exception logs today: ScriptProtect error replacing insecure tag in scope CGI; Essentially someone (via an automated process) was trying to find a weakness in our application by trying URL’s like: Luckily we use scriptprotect (among many other defensive techniques) to prevent this type of thing [...]
- November 24, 2008
- Use application.applicationName? Careful when re-initing your app
I’m sure most ColdFusion developers know that the application scope has a built-in variable called application.applicationName which stores the name of the application that you specify in the cfapplication tag or the this.name value if your using Application.cfc. This doesn’t appear when you dump the application scope…but it’s there. Today I wanted to use this [...]