Following on from my previous post, ColdFusion allows redirects by using the cflocation tag. However cflocation is only a temporary redirect and it returns the 302 http moved temporarily header to the browser: The 301 status code is used to indicate that a page has permanently moved, and to do this in ColdFusion we actually […]
I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
Another of ColdFusion 8’s new tag features is the cfthread tag. Previously I showed you how to sleep a thread using Java and ColdFusion MX for version 6 and 7. Now the Adobe team have come up with a cfthread tag, that among other things allows you to sleep a thread: This will set the […]
I have done a quick direct comparison of quality between ColdFusion 8 cfimage tag and the cfx_imagecr3 tag from Efflare. This test is a simple loop from 10% to 100% and resizes the original image with each tag for each scale. And here are the results at 60%. Can you pick the difference? Left hand […]
Over on this thread a comment has been left remarking that messages cannot be sent over multiple browser sessions even though the from and to addresses are the same. “If I close the ColdFusion client and reopen it I can send messages with no problems, but cannot receive them.” This is caused by IM clients […]
Over on this thread a comment has been left remarking that Exodus seems to be the only IM client that works with the smack API implementation in ColdFusion. My research was a bit long so I thought I would respond in a blog entry rather than the comments. 1. “Now I am having trouble sending […]
Today I have started work on using the Java library SMACK API to concoct a web based chat client for our support teams to chat with clients on our sites. Its pretty easy to use, and if you are running ColdFusion MX7.x then you dont even need to download the Smack API as the XMPP […]
In line with Adobes push to make things more ECMA Script compliant I noticed today that you can put in a line using && for AND in ColdFusion 8 tag syntax as follows: Original Syntax: ColdFusion 8: You can use any of the following: and in cfscript I spotted this in the long list of […]
I find this really useful sometimes. for example when we did the Geocoding of Australian Postcodes I chucked in a sleep thread to the loop so that we wouldn’t hammer google and get banned from running any more geocoding requests. This uses the java.lang.Thread method to pause or sleep the currently running thread. So first […]
