The Pre-releases of ColdFusion 10 (codenamed Zeus) and ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 (Beta) are now available on Adobe Labs for download.

My blog has been offline for ages (not sure if anyone had noticed) but after finally switching all my other projects to my new hosts (hostmediauk) i thought it may be worthwhile to get this back online, in case i feel the need to write any posts again.

Recently I have been using the new ORM features of ColdFusion 9 with some projects that i have been involved in. One problem that i have encountered was to add MySQL multiple key-value LIKE statements with an OR operator into a query with Named Parameters.

I have been working on several projects recently that utilise the excellent Mura CMS for ColdFusion. One of the websites requires certain form fields to be pre-populated when navigating from a page.

Looking through the support documents this was not immediately obvious, so i ended up creating a small ColdFusion function that extends the Core framework to get this task complete.

I recently had the task of downloading a large number of pdf's, extract the image from the 1st page of each pdf, then to proceed to crop, resize and alter the colour mode for these images to grayscale. Not wanting to do this task the long mundane way, i thought about how i could set up a Coldfusion script to do this for me.

The post just outlines the methods and functions i adopted to get this task done.

Been looking at Framework 1, from Sean Corfield, for awhile now and really like the simplicity of it. Having recently finished an application using it along with MySql, thought i would look at using an alternative database adopting a NoSQL approach, having read some information about CouchDB i decided to give it a try!

The post outlines an update to my application which allowed me to add an alternative data storage with the help of Coldspring.

The Coldfusion / Flex file management application that I have been working on, has solely, up until this time been a standalone application. A recent project required integration with the popular TinyMCE WYSIWYG.

The post outlines the simple steps required to get FiLEX working as the default file management plugin.

I have decided to make my Coldfusion/Flex File Manager, FiLEX, available for download. All the features that have been mentioned about in previous posts are free to use. This has been tested on Coldfusion 8/9 and Railo 3.1 and have had no problems.

Click through to find the download and installation instructions.

Im no MySQL expert, but this stored procedure is something that i created myself to find and replace development URLS within the entire database.

Within the last few weeks, i have made steady progress with FiLEX, my Coldfusion Flex File Management application. Until recently, i was only able to show videos of functionality of this application due to uploading of files. New additions to FiLEX has enabled to post a public demo of the application for use.

To test the application and to offer feedback, please follow the link.

Since my last post about Flex / Coldfusion File Manager, FiLEX, i have been busy developing extra functionality to it enabling me to use it for a number of projects coming up. The post outlines the new updates i have made for a friendly user experience and a brief video outlines how simple it is to carry out the tasks.

To view a complete run down of the original specification and functionality for FiLEX, view the previous post here.

I have managed to setup a live demo version of my Flex / Coldfusion File Manager, titled FiLEX. Follow this post to see how to access this demo, as login details will need to be provided due to restrictions put in place for file uploading to the server.

Further information about FiLEX can be found here, where also a short video is available to see the application in use.

During the last few weeks I have been getting down to work on my Flex Project for a file manager, titled FiLEX (Flex / File combination). This post is just outlining what functions and features are currently available on this application and some screenshots are attached to give a better idea of it. The idea is to have complete control of the file structure on a Coldfusion based server, adding files/directories, updating, deleting and downloading.

This is the next part in the step-by-step process that I took setup Coldbox / Coldspring and Transfer, running on Railo, for a project I am currently working on. This post will focus on completing the setup of Transfer within the Coldbox configuration and also setting it up within Coldspring for the object dependency injection,

The previous part to this can be found here.

I have been experimenting with Coldfusion and Fusebox as of late and recently created a very simple twitter application that returns the friends for a given Twitter user. The previous post to this can be found here.

The update to this application is here and this post outlines the updated aspects to the functionality of it.

I have been doing abit of Flash Remoting with Coldfusion last couple of weeks, and have created this simple Actionscript setup to speed up the process of connecting to the gateway and the server side language.

Having already used a variety of different Coldfusion frameworks to build applications : Coldbox, FW/1 and Mach-II (to name a few), I decided to try and give Fusebox a try too.

The very simple application that I have built also utilizes the Twitter API to get friends listings and allows to select any of the friends to view a bit more information and the lastest Tweet. The is a demo application to try and the source files are available for download. 

I recently read a tweet asking how to sort an array of structures using Coldfusion. I was going to point them in the direction of a post i had found which done exactly this, however i could no longer find it. So i have created this post to share the code that enables this functionality as i currently use this in some of my work.

Although this is Part 0 of an ongoing series I have already started, this is the 2nd post to the series. On the original post about setting up Coldbox / Coldspring / Transfer, i received a comment asking to post about my current server setup, so this post is exactly that.

The original post, Coldbox / Coldspring / Transfer - Part 1, can be found here.

This simple plugin for Coldbox validates required form fields and ensures that they are not blank. It does not validate things like email addresses and telephone numbers. It purely checks that required fields are completed and returns a boolean and simple message to indicate a success or failure.