My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring

Due the possibility of a contract work on a project that uses Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring combo next year – I have dedicated some portion of my holiday time to get my hands dirty on these frameworks. It has been around 10 days building a simple application with the frameworks and below is my [...]

cf.Objective(ANZ) 2009 Recap – Part 2

I managed to do a short jogging along Yarra River in the morning – it was very lovely.
These are the summary of the sessions that I went to on day 2 as well as my personal reflection.

cf.Objective(ANZ) 2009 Recap – Part 1

Well, this is my 3rd time attending a development conference and I had a great time there. I am glad that now there is a ColdFusion specific conference in Australia (in addition to WebDU – which also has a dedicated ColdFusion stream) – thank you for the committee to bring it here down under, you [...]

Railo on Apache / Tomcat – Windows (Part 3) – Getting URL Rewriting works for ColdBox

Well I thought this was going to be an easy process, but it turned out to be little bit trickier than I thought.
Apparently there are a couple of ways to get ColdBox SES (Search Engine ) URL to work.

Adding new site to Railo

Just a little note for myself as I am trying to get the workflow going on setting up new site in Railo.
In here I am using the application server Resin that comes with Railo – I would like to change this to Tomcat one day to mimic the my hosted environment at Viviotech.

Null Pointers error in ColdFusion

Couple of weeks ago, I was stumped by this cryptic ColdFusion error:
The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code. Null pointers are another name for undefined values.

The piece of code was always working up until that point, I narrowed down [...]

Argument over ColdFusion OOP

My production manager has been trying so hard to think of ways to improve our code maintainability – rightly, he has considered Object Oriented Programming (OOP) as a possible solution to the problem.
Some of us in the team are really supportive to this. He’s quite excited as for the first time in few years he [...]

CFbuilder tips – project already exists

I have trial running CFBuilder for few hours, I’ve been quite impressed so far. It has a very similar feel to CFEclipse.
I ran into a problem at work when I was trying to create a ColdFusion project for my work project, I got a message “The project already exiss in … “ whenever I tried [...]

Experimenting with YQL – jobs aggregator

As I have blogged previously, during webDU conference Yahoo!’s YQL really caught my attention. I really think it is really cool how you can leverage your SQL and XPath knowledge to easily query any websites that you want.

Re-using server side logic for client side validation

In this post, I will show an example how to re-use your server side validation code for client side validation. This is achieved by using Ajax call to the server side validation code.