Opening a url in the default browser with Ant
posted by Chris on Jan 04, 2012 at 18:15
Been playing with Ant, Jenkins and MXUnit recently and when I run the build in eclipse i thought it would be nice if it could open up the test results for me.
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cfparam broken in cfscript
posted by Chris on Sep 06, 2011 at 10:49
I just ran into an issue with <cfparam>or at least the implementation of it inside a <cfscript> block.
To ensure a variable is defined using the <cfparam> tag you wold do
<cfparam name="url.id" />
If you hit this page without providing an id on the url you would get an error from ColdFusion, eg.
The required parameter URL.ID was not provided
However in cfscript there are two ways to write this
<cfscript> param url.id; // or param name="url.id"; </cfscript>
The first behaves exactly the same as its tag counter-part, but the second fails to throw an error if the variable is undefined.
I can't find any docs for cfparam in cfscript on adobe.com, but the second syntax is supported by ColdFusion builder, in fact it auto-suggests the name attribute when you type in param. So both should be supported, which means this is a bug.
I've posted a bug report here
I completely forgot my anniversary
posted by Chris on Aug 05, 2011 at 11:45
Luckily it wasn't my wedding anniversary! My 35th birthday marked the 10 year anniversary of me quiting smoking. My lungs should now have returned to their pre-smoking capacity.
When is an array not an array
posted by Chris on May 11, 2011 at 14:00
Coldfusion 9.0.1 added for-in looping over arrays, which is great, it's much simpler and a lot less verbose than having to iterate over with an index.
<cfscript>
for(item in myarray) {
doSomething(item);
}
</cfscript>
Listing Coldfusion ORM entities programatically
posted by Chris on Apr 11, 2011 at 12:20
When you write an application It's a fair to assume you know what entities your dealing with, after all you've either written them yourself or your coding to extend an existing application. Recently though i've been mentally tossing about an idea for a library that can automatically create some services for your orm entites, with the idea that you can just drop it into an orm enbaled ColdFusion application and it will create them for you with a minimum of configuration.