 | 4 Sep 09:55 IMPORTANT Update : This post is NOT accurate. As it turns out, it is the XmlSearch() that is causing such a slow down in the XML version. When the XmlSearch() / XPath is removed, the XML parsing method is significatnly faster. See this update . When I started building my POI Utility function ... 29 Aug 10:05 Yesterday, when I was messing around with my first ColdFusion 8 sFTP commands using CFFTP , I came across a strange timeout bug. Many tags in ColdFusion allows us to enter override Timeout values. These values are always entered as seconds: Timeout="30" To make the code more readable, I like to make the timeout value dynamic when it has to be large. So, rather than doing: ... 29 Aug 09:46 Yesterday, I performed my first ever ColdFusion CFFTP task. I've needed to perform FTP tasks from ColdFusion before but required sFTP functionality, which was only added in ColdFusion 8. As such, until now, I have only ever used third-party utilities. I got the ColdFusion 8 secure FTP to work, but it took me a while to figure it out all. I am sure others will run into similar road blocks, so I thought I'd share my learnings. The first thing we want to do is create a large test file to ... 27 Aug 09:40 A while back, I created an AJAX file upload demo using jQuery and ColdFusion. The demo worked quite nicely, but people using FireFox 3 were telling me that FireFox never stopped loading. That is, the page would execute fine, but the window would signal (via the Status Bar and loading circle) that it never completed loading the page. Based on some feedback fro ... 25 Aug 10:04 The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . Currently, all of my FORM processing happens in the Controller layer. That is, my Controller is responsible for taking the user-submitted FORM data, stuffing it in ... 22 Aug 10:05 I've been thinking a lot lately about the Controller's relationship to the View in an MVC application. In particular, I have been questioning the way I am handling error messages in OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion. Currently, validation and errors are handled in this way: Controller gets service to validate model. Controller takes returned validation object from service and ... 21 Aug 10:04 Terrence Ryan pointed this out to me the other day and I thought it was too funny. In response to my Arnold Schwarzenegger ColdFusion banner, Becky Sweger created her own girlie version : ... 21 Aug 09:39 The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . After discussing what makes an object "ideal," I went ahead and ... 19 Aug 20:12 The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . In a conversation that I had with ... 18 Aug 13:27 While learning object oriented programming, I've come up against the phrase, "It Depends" quite a bit. Actually, with almost every question, it seems that someone offers "It Depends" as the answer. For someone learning a completely new topic, answers like this can be very frustrating because it seems that not only do you need to find information, you also need to, simultaneously, develop some sort of litmus test to check for validity. My question is, is "It Depends" really accurate? W ... | | |