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Latest Blog Entries
Cleaner code with CFML formatter (VSCode extension) + cfformat (CommandBox module)
Posted: 02/24/2025 10:16 AM
I don’t work on a lot of non-CFML development but I had a couple of PHP projects and a JavaScript project I was working on last month. In an effort to tidy up my code in those projects I started using Prettier. I even wrote a post on Prettier and how I would be including ... Read more
Posted: 02/24/2025 10:16 AM
I don’t work on a lot of non-CFML development but I had a couple of PHP projects and a JavaScript project I was working on last month. In an effort to tidy up my code in those projects I started using Prettier. I even wrote a post on Prettier and how I would be including ... Read more
Prettier with a sample .prettierrc and explanation of options
Posted: 02/11/2025 10:37 AM
I’ve worked on a team of one for a very long time. I appreciate the level of autonomy that I have, but I’ve noticed now more than ever that it can facilitate bad habits and laziness. Luckily, in the modern era of coding there are tools that can help encourage (or flat out enforce) good ... Read more
Posted: 02/11/2025 10:37 AM
I’ve worked on a team of one for a very long time. I appreciate the level of autonomy that I have, but I’ve noticed now more than ever that it can facilitate bad habits and laziness. Luckily, in the modern era of coding there are tools that can help encourage (or flat out enforce) good ... Read more
ckEditor, jQuery Validation Plugin, Bootstrap 5 Implementation
Posted: 02/07/2025 09:27 AM
I recently had a project at work with a very specific desired front-end stack and functional requirements. After building out the project I came up with a demo to show how I was able to put it all together. This demo implements multiple instances of ckEditor in conjunction with the jQuery Validation Plugin and Bootstrap ... Read more
Posted: 02/07/2025 09:27 AM
I recently had a project at work with a very specific desired front-end stack and functional requirements. After building out the project I came up with a demo to show how I was able to put it all together. This demo implements multiple instances of ckEditor in conjunction with the jQuery Validation Plugin and Bootstrap ... Read more
ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks Failing with 403 Forbidden Error (Cloudflare Issue)
Posted: 11/18/2024 09:12 AM
My company recently experienced an issue where all of the scheduled tasks in CFADMIN were failing. The first step I took to troubleshoot the issue was to check the scheduler.log log file. Each task had 2 lines in the log file. The first line indicated that the task had been triggered. The second line indicated ... Read more
Posted: 11/18/2024 09:12 AM
My company recently experienced an issue where all of the scheduled tasks in CFADMIN were failing. The first step I took to troubleshoot the issue was to check the scheduler.log log file. Each task had 2 lines in the log file. The first line indicated that the task had been triggered. The second line indicated ... Read more
ColdFusion unscoped variables and how to find them (using the new patch)
Posted: 04/09/2024 08:56 AM
On March 12, 2024 ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 13 introduced a change with significant implications for developers, particularly for developers managing older code that could be “leveraging” a “feature” of ColdFusion whereby ColdFusion would forgivingly “search” through scopes in a specific order if a variable name is not prefixed with a scope identifier. Rather than ... Read more
Posted: 04/09/2024 08:56 AM
On March 12, 2024 ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 13 introduced a change with significant implications for developers, particularly for developers managing older code that could be “leveraging” a “feature” of ColdFusion whereby ColdFusion would forgivingly “search” through scopes in a specific order if a variable name is not prefixed with a scope identifier. Rather than ... Read more
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