Posted on December 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM in
ColdFusion
In my previous entry I discussed the use of comment-based attributes for the new all-script CFCs in CF9 and what it actually takes to make them work as advertised. As Andy Matthews pointed out in a comment on the post, they aren't technically "comments" in a traditional sense, but rather are JavaDoc notations.
After spending a bit of time weighing the arguments both for and against the use of comments as executable code, and playing with using them and not using them, I have conclusively sided with the "comments as executable code are pure evil" group. Why?
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Posted on October 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM in
ColdFusion
If you're like me, you absolutely love CF9's new script-based CFCs. I recently re-worked a very simple class and went from 111 lines of code in my old tag-based version down to 66 lines of code in the new all-script version. Nice! But I was having trouble getting comment-based attributes for the component, properties, and functions to actually work.
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Posted on October 21, 2009 at 6:57 PM in
ColdFusion
One of the "tricks" I have used for a long time now is to use a mixin with an object. For example, I have a collection of UDFs that are related to date and time manipulation. Certain classes get all or some of these mixed in like so:
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Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM in
ColdFusion
One of the (many) really nice features of CF9 is the addition of implicit getters and setters for CFCs. While I love having a concrete API, I am learning to love this idea more and more because of the saved keystrokes.
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Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM in
ColdFusion
In the first post of what I hope turns out to be a series of posts about CF9, I wanted to give a couple of tips on getting CF8 and CF9 running alongside one another. It is really nice to be able to have both running simultaneously.
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Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM in
ColdFusion
Well, after planning to play with CF9 for a very long time now but unable to find any time to do so, I am now in a situation where I must make time to learn it. As I work my way through the refactoring of an enormous code base to run on CF9, I will try and make a series of posts with any tips, tricks, or gotchas that I run across.
If you are not yet at least playing with CF9, I would encourage you to download the Developer Edition and get to working on it!
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 8:08 PM in
General
I recently moved all of my email over to Google Apps because I was sick and tired of fighting spam. Everything worked great for about a month. Now, however, I am perpetually locked out of my email - whether via a desktop client or via my iPhone. This is obviously utterly unacceptable.
I have searched and searched and searched the Google forums and documentation, and cannot find a &*(&@^## solution. I can, however, find lots and lots of threads and posts of people having the exact same problem, with absolutely no solution being posted. So I now turn to you, my fellow CFers, in hopes of an answer.
A) Do you use IMAP with Gmail (regular or Google Apps) and have found a solution to this issue?
B) Do you use another IMAP mail service (free or not) that you can and will recommend?
I look forward to your responses!
UPDATE (10/6/09)
It boggles my mind that Google is trying to get companies to pay them for email (and other) services when they refuse to even attempt to support their services. With so many people using both the free and paid Google Apps services experiencing the exact same problem, the issue is obviously a serious one and if Google intends to play in the corporate email/document world, then they had better get their act together and start servicing their offerings.
After being held hostage by Google for five days, I decided that enough is enough. I am now quite happily paying Rackspace $34 per month for MS Exchange hosting. I no longer have any email headaches whatsoever. Spam? Gone. Lockouts? Gone. Google? Gone. :-)
Posted on September 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM in
ColdFusion
This is one of those posts that is definitely for my future reference. You know, one that I will hopefully never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever need, but will probably do the same stupid thing again anyways. Oh well, hopefully it will help someone else, too.
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Posted on September 7, 2009 at 9:18 PM in
General
I have used POP ever since I got my first email account all of those years ago. It always served me well. Besides, I have always been somewhat of an email packrat and by utilizing POP I have been able to save essentially every email I ever received or sent dating back well over ten years.
Gee, maybe one day I will actually need to find something in one of these ancient emails.
Well, last week I got hooked on the Gateway Drug To All Things Apple, otherwise know as the iPhone. You see, prior to last week I had never even touched one. I refused to because of the exclusive agreement between Apple and AT&T. You know, the one that was signed seemingly the next day after I switched away from AT&T service (after being with them for many years). Anyways, I feared that if I stopped and played with an iPhone I would be hooked and could not settle for anything else.
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Wow. I have been so busy with things lately that I just realized that I forgot to release the latest version of cfUniForm. Well, that and I finally took a much needed vacation. :-)
This release contains a handful of minor bug fixes and a few new features, most of which are from new contributors to the library! So let's take a quick glance under the hood.
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