One more from the archives of the company dev blog, this time from August 2011. We have been gradually moving off of ColdFusion over the last several years, but maybe there is something in here that might be useful for someone. We have been using ColdFusion 9 for a few months now. With all new code that is developed, we have been abandoning <CFQUERY> in […]
Coldfusion 9 ORM, Caching and Autocommit Continue Reading »
This is another article from the retired company blog. This one is from September, 2011. I have been developing ColdFusion on and off for about 10 years, and one topic that has been controversial the entire time is CFScript. The arguments go back and forth: ‘It’s too slow’, ‘it’s not ColdFusion’, ‘It looks like Javascript, but isn’t’. On our team, the majority of our code
Performance of CFScript Continue Reading »
Im continuing to clear out articles from the retired company development team blog. This one, was instrumental in getting me connected with one of my first big side work projects, which evolved into a two year project that helped us retire our mortgage. From August 2011: We have been working the last few months on an experiment with Salesforce.com. The code is some of our
Logging in To Salesforce from ColdFusion Continue Reading »
One of the more odd parts of our architecture at work involves a cluster of Tomcat instances running ColdFusion and Java services side by side. We are porting our existing ColdFusion services over to Java/SpringMVC applications, and during the transition they are being served up by the same app servers. One of these services interacts with Paypal/PayflowPro. We have a ColdFusion Component (CFC) that makes
Making Java, Coldfusion, Tomcat and PayflowPro Play Nicely Continue Reading »
I am currently working on a app that has a fairly simple database model, and we are using ColdFusion 9 and Hibernate to map that model. The model is actually a local cache of a Sales Force CRM database. I have an Account, that can have a list of postal codes assigned to it. Since we have no need for any metadata other than the
ColdFusion, HQL and Named Parameters with Collections Continue Reading »
