Category Archives: Farcry

June 23, 2008
New FarCry “core” site– also posted in ColdFusion

The guys at Daemon have been busy of late. With the conference just barely over I just noticed they’ve found the time to launch a new site at http://www.farcrycore.org/ for all your information needs on the FarCry framework. Includes documentation, downloads (for the new version 5!) and more, go and take a look and try [...]

June 19, 2008
FarCry – Finding a page by ‘typename’ somewhere above the current page– also posted in ColdFusion

Note: This is for FarCry v3 which is a bit old now but should work for v5 Sometimes when using FarCry I have a need to find an occurance of a page “type” which sits somewhere above where I currently am in the the navigation hierachy. Say I want to find the “VehicleType” page (which [...]

September 27, 2007
Creating a custom FarCry login page– also posted in ColdFusion

The FarCry security model is really very cool. You can of course setup users within the ‘admin’ area and assign those users to groups (and those groups can have different permissions), but you can also authenticate via Active Directory or LDAP etc. One thing you can also do with ease is secure particular navigation ‘nodes’ [...]

September 27, 2007
ColdFire 1.0 released– also posted in ColdFusion

Yesterday there was some news from Ray and Nathan Mische regarding the 1.0 release of ColdFire, Nathan has a great write up here. From RIAForge: ColdFire is an extension to FireBug. It provides debug information in a FireBug tab as opposed to the bottom of the page. This lets you debug and keep your site [...]

April 23, 2007
Farcry 4.0 filename standards– also posted in ColdFusion

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 [...]