News by Raymond Camden

BlogCFC 5.9.1 Released

31 Jul 10:01
I've just upated BlogCFC to version 5.9.1. This is one of the biggest releases in a while. It's mainly a guilt release. As folks know, version 6 has been well delayed. I decided to work on the 5.x branch again and clear up some old bugs and features that I had planned for version 6. So what's new? You can now delete a comment via email. When you get the email notification of a new comment (you being the admin), you have a special link.

Ask a Jedi: Learning cfscript?

31 Jul 02:03
Robert asks: In anticipation of the greater role CFSCRIPT will play in CF9, how is the best way, and what are the best resources, for learning cfscript from scratch? And as always, thanks in advance!

Ask a Jedi: Doing arithmetic with Spry data

30 Jul 22:58
Rey asks: Hi, I'm trying to do some arithmetic with Spry the data is coming from a dataset. Now how can I loop through the dataset and then add to get a total. For example in ColdFusion I can do this: <cfset totalA = 0> <cfset tot...

What? Folks aren't using cfqueryparam?

30 Jul 01:46
It seems that while I was gone there was some noise about CF and SQL Injection. I find this a bit surprising as I thought everyone was using cfqueryparam now, aren't they? In all seriousness, here are some few links to consider: Announcing the first ever International Operation cf_SQLprotect: I'm a few days late on this (let's see - Friday at this time I was downtown Austin), but Brad Wood decided that July 25th would be a good day to scan your code for sql vulnerabilities.

Ask a Jedi: Moving to UNIX, but didn't plan for it. Now what?

29 Jul 09:13
Sandeep asks: i have been doing my development on windows machine but now i decided to move to linux .. but when i was writing my code i did not think i would be moving to linux anytime so i was not very careful when i did my includes ... is there any tool that you know of can help me fix cf code... i know i can use dreamweaver replace in a particular folder but still it might be too time consuming.

I survived! (Mostly)

29 Jul 05:22
I'm back home in Louisiana after a week of fun and sun (and a crap load of walking). I've gotten quite a bit of email, some of which will make for excellent blog posts, but give me a few days to catch up. For folks who are really bored and want to he...

Welcome Joe!

25 Jul 09:05
So I know I'm on vacation, but I had to take a quick moment to share the good news. Joe Rinehart has joined Broadchoice. Yes - we truly are trying to get all the best talent in the world.

Goodbye for a while (and some quick media reviews...)

21 Jul 13:44
So I've been more than a little quiet this week and I apologize for that. I'm currently sitting at SFO waiting for my 12:30 AM flight back home. Tuesday my family and I are heading out for my first real vacation in close to two years. I'll be back on...

Quick Note on Glenda Vigoreaux

20 Jul 08:10
I just wanted to write a quick note to make sure folks know about the passing of one our communities best speakers, Glenda Vigoreaux. Charlie Arehart has written up the details so I'm going to link to him: Mourning the tragic passing of Glenda Vig...

Flying the not-so-friendly skies

18 Jul 03:34
I had a bit of a shock this morning. I went to go check in at American Airlines and discovered that I now have to pay to check luggage. Sure it was only 15 bucks, but it was certainly a surprise to me. The lady behind the counter said it was all over...
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