Railo, ORM and MySQL 5.5.x gotcha

On February 1, 2012, in ColdFusion, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

I was testing the ORM stuff in the latest version of Railo (3.3.1.000 final) and after setting up the ORM settings in Application.cfc, when I tried to run the code, I could not get Railo to create the database tables, even with dbcreate=”dropcreate”. Here is my code, that was not working :- The above code [...]

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A long awaited update on coldfusiondocs.com

On January 30, 2012, in ColdFusion, Javascript, by Anuj Gakhar

I launched coldfusiondocs.com in December, 2007 and back then, it was a Flex based app. I got feedback from several people and everyone liked the app. However, for the past year or so, I have not been able to give it the time and attention that it deserves for several reasons. I have been keeping [...]

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Book Review: Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide

On December 20, 2011, in Books, ColdFusion, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

I am a regular Railo user and use it everyday. I absolutely love the product and CFML in general. So, when this book came out, my first reaction was to ask Packt Publishing for a review copy, which they happily gave to me. I have spent a few hours reading the book already and my [...]

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Sending Email with the new SMTP Support for Amazon SES

On December 14, 2011, in AWS, ColdFusion, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

Amazon recently announced that they have added an SMTP interface to their Simple Email Service. Now, this is pretty cool. This means that we can now use our very own cfmail tag in ColdFusion to send emails using Amazon’s SMTP/SES service. The Simple Email Service allows you to send emails – although you need to [...]

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ColdFusion Job Opening in London

On December 13, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

Title: ColdFusion Developer Description: This position is responsible for creating/modifying ColdFusion code and database communications for company’s enterprise website. We are looking for a highly motivated, detail oriented ColdFusion Developer who understands the unique needs of Internet and Web Applications.  You must be a team player responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying enterprise level [...]

 

Using ColdBox and LogBox for Error Logging

On December 1, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

If you are a ColdFusion developer and have not used ColdBox yet, well then, I must say you are missing something. Go ahead and try it out. This post won’t make much sense to anyone not familiar with ColdBox. For those who are familiar with ColdBox, I will be including an example of how you [...]

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ColdBox Plugin for Amazon SES

On November 30, 2011, in AWS, ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

A few days ago, I wrote an API wrapper for Amazon Simple Email Service. Today, I thought of converting it into a ColdBox Plugin for use within ColdBox apps. I have added the plugin source code to the existing github repository for the project. Feel free to use, test and report any issues (if found).

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ColdBox 3.5.0 Module Contest : Win a Kindle Fire or an iPod

On November 29, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

Luis Majano posted on his blog about a ColdBox contest that allows you to win a Kindle Fire or an iPod Nano. ColdBox 3.5.0 Beta has been released just yesterday and I believe it is a good opportunity to develop and win prizes at the same time. I am a regular ColdBox user myself and [...]

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Server Side Google Analytics with ColdFusion

On November 25, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

If you have an application/page that returns only XML or JSON repsonses and the end client is not a browser (an API e.g.) and you want to use Google Analytics for tracking your API calls, then you won’t be able to use the standard Google Analytics Javascript code. There is no browser involved and you [...]

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ColdFusion, URLEncoding and RFC 3986

On November 19, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

ColdFusion has an inbuilt function for encoding URL vars. URLEncodedFormat – which does the job well, but it does not follow the RFC 3986 , the Internet standards document that describes the encoding of URLs, very strictly. This does not cause problems 98% of the times but I recently found out while working with some [...]

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