A couple of days ago, Steve Bryant suggested that today would be “How I Got Started in ColdFusion day”. He claims every story he heard so far is interesting, so why not share mine? Here goes. It was late 2005 when I applied for a job of Programmer at a company called Netbasics. Back then [...]

Today was quite an exciting day for us attendees of Scotch on the Rocks (SotR). One of the key parts of today’s sessions was Object Relational Mapping (ORM) in ColdFusion 9. If you are unfamiliar with what ORM really is (like I was, not so long ago), read about the basic principles on WikiPedia. Now, [...]

Today was a big day for us “Adobe-minded” people: Adobe’s Scotch on the Rocks tour (SotR) made its very first stop in Amsterdam, at the Dutch Adobe division. One very cool thing pointed out by Adobe ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman during one of the sessions today, was that – believe it or not – you [...]

We had a strange problem in ColdFusion recently, using weeknumbers and dates. In ColdFusion, you can use the Week() function to determine what weeknumber the week of any given date has. A very useful function you’d say. However, January 1st 2010 will present a very weird problem. The international ISO 8601, containing the international standard [...]

ColdFusion 9 is coming and quite some neat new features are being presented to the audience. One of those things is the newly introduced LOCAL scope. This has, however, caused a little stir on Ben Forta’s blog post, as it raises some questions. The creators of ColdFusion decided that variables in functions should, by default, [...]