Archive for the ‘ColdFusion’ Category

An old project of mine has moved its documentation to a new home on this website. AedCFC was my first significant open source project, which was a add/edit/delete module for ColdFusion. I would call it CRUD, but its a bit more elegant than that. This tool is meant to be for administrative areas for website [...]

Its rare that anyone uses Gedit for ColdFusion, but hey, I know one that does! First off I use Gedit because its quick, simple, and super extensible. I work in ColdFusion equally as much as PHP as far as the serverside goes, so I like a pretty consistent environment for both, which this editor also [...]

I thought I would share a quick bit of code to format names in ColdFusion. Simply all this does is capitalize the first letter of each name part, taking into consideration elements such as hyphens, apostrophes, roman numerals, and nicknames: William “Bill” Doe or William (Bill) Doe. <cffunction name=”nameFormat” access=”public” output=”false” returntype=”string”> <cfargument name=”name” required=”true” [...]

It seems you can never do enough to protect your website. One pointer I thought I’d mention is to remember to not use the default ColdFusion sessions when possible as they do not encrypt session cookies on the client. You can easily change this in the administrator to use UUID for cftoken cookies under the [...]

For those of you not aware of what aedCFC is, it is a collection of cfc’s which dynamically build end user ready add/edit/delete, ideal for administration areas to websites. You’re asking yourself, “Well a bunch of frameworks build crud for me, why should I bother with this?”. The answer is simple, crud applications are for [...]