For those who haven’t installed the latest hotfix for ColdFusion 9.0.1 from Adobe, here is the link:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/862/cpsid_86263.html
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!
Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Aug 26 will be “Use Your Web Skills to Create Native Mobile Apps”, with Fred Anderson.
TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)
Open source application development platforms have changed the development game. By utilizing web technologies like Javascript, HTML, and CSS, you can build applications for iPhone, Android and Blackberry all from a single code base. And best of all – you can utilize the native capabilities of the phone, so you don’t sacrifice anything in the user experience.
Appcelerator’s Titanium platform translates developers’ hard won web skills into native mobile applications that perform and look just like they were written in Objective-C [iPhone] or Java [Android]¦ but using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills. With over 300 APIs, a thriving developer community, and the support you need, developers can build native mobile applications that are more social, local, media rich, interactive, and extensible. Download Titanium for free at www.appcelerator.com.
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!
Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Aug 26 will be “Installing Multiple Versions of ColdFusion Together”, with Daria Norris.
TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)
I will show how you can set up your development environment to use CF9 & CF8 (or even CF6 or 7) at the same time using ColdFusion’s multi-server configuration option. This can be useful when you have several projects that have different code level requirements, or just to play with new features before you can develop your production apps with them. I will also talk about managing the services that CF installs to get the most performance out of your development environment.
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Good tips from Stephen Weyrick about Epoch date conversions.
It seems like every time I build a new application in Flex, I need to use epoch dates. Below, I’m just going to provide a reference so that I don’t have to lookup the conversions every time I forget.
Here is the link to the post.
BFusion and BFlex 2010
September 11-12
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Hands-on training from Adobe Flex and ColdFusion Experts
Registration here.
…Using CFML to create HTML is also a great replacement for JSP. You don’t have to give up your back-end (EJB, Spring, Hibernate) to use CF.
Adam Lehman is the Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion. He says a lot of ColdFusion use cases are within a Java development cycle. It’s a Java application, so it deploys as an .EAR or .WAR file.
Watch the video on Dzone website.
Announcing a new session for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!
Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Aug 19 will be “GIT for Dummies and the slightly more enlightened”, with Tim Cunningham.
TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)
Git seems to be the cool kid on the block these days. How does it differ from SVN? What is the big deal about it being distributed? What type of development flow does it work well with? How does it work with CF_Eclipse and CFBuilder? And did they know it was slang in British English for “idiot” when they named it?
The talk is oriented to people who know nothing about Source Control and particularly nothing about GIT, proposing why GIT is superior to other version control systems, teaching attenders how to install it, create repositories, clone repositories, merge, branch, fork, maybe some rebasing, as well as using the eGIT Gui tools in CFBuilder. Finally I will suggest some possible work flows.
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
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The ColdFusion directory traversal vulnerability has been classified by Adobe as important rather than critical, and I agree with A.P. (Adrian P. of GnuCitizen) that this is a mistake. Here’s why I think this is a big mistake … on top of the excellent analysis Adrian has already done (check his excellent post here) I think it’s relevent to do a little digging yourself to understand the full scope of the potential problem.
This post is worth reading.
Here is the link.
This is the recording from Ray Camden’s presentation today.
I found this article by James Netherton on a discussion list of CF-Brasil group.
I needed that long time ago, when I had to import some data from a PHP web application. I tried his code and it works perfectly, so I’m linking to his blog so you may use that code too if you need.
Invoking a Webservice Using CFHTTP
Here is his code for the component:
<cfcomponent output="false" style="rpc"> <cffunction name="addNumbers" access="remote" returntype="numeric" output="false"> <cfargument name="firstNumber" type="string" required="true"/> <cfargument name="secondNumber" type="string" required="true"/> <cfreturn arguments.firstNumber + arguments.secondNumber/> </cffunction> </cfcomponent>
Here is his code for the test:
<!--- You'd need to strip any whitespace before passing to CFHTTP ---> <cfsavecontent variable="soap"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:addNumbers soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://directorypath"> <firstNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">100</firstNumber> <secondNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">10</secondNumber> </ns1:addNumbers> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> </cfsavecontent> <!--- Note that there's no ?wsdl appendage to the url ---> <cfhttp url="http://myserver/webservice.cfc" method="post"> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-type" value="text/xml"> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value=""> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-length" value="#len(soap)#"> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="charset" value="utf-8"> <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="message" value="#trim(soap)#"> </cfhttp> <!--- Dump out a nice representation of the SOAP response ---> <cfdump var="#xmlParse(cfhttp.FileContent)#">
