Javascript Dump?

This guy managed to create a kind of cfdump but for Javascript. Can you imagine how many hours can be saved in Javascript debuging using this tool? And the best thing: It's a dump tool made by a CFDeveloper Check it out!

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 9:35 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Misc

Performance Test: isDefined x structKeyExists

The graphics will show it, but basically I was comparing the performance between the two of them. And guess what? In my tests, isDefined seems to be slightly faster than structKeyExists. I have to assume that I was a bit surprised with the results, as structKeyExists() is considered as a best practice. The code:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 9:03 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

Performance Test: CFMODULE x CFIMPORT

I have about 50 files to be used as modules in a particular system. You may ask me: "Why don't you use them as CFC's?"

The problem is that I don't have the time to translate all the 50 modules into a Big and Fat CFC. We've been using CFMODULE to access this modules for years, but now we suddenly had to change all the file structure, and will probably have to do it again in a non distant future.

I thought about using mappings with the cfmodule, so whenever I need to change the file's path, I could just go to the admin and change the mapping. Also I thought about using CFIMPORT, so when I need to change the path, I just go to my Application and change the path there.

I then decided to do some performance tests, and found that CFMODULE is way faster than CFIMPORT as you can see:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:46 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

World Top Companies Using ColdFusion MX

Some blogs already posted it, but I found it worth posting again. World's Top Companies Use ColdFusion MX

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 2:33 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Adobe

Tag of the day: CFIMAGE Captcha (part 2)

as this tag does a whole bunch of things, I decided to show one more usage example. Today I'm gonna show some captcha:

<cfimage action="captcha" fontSize="18" width="150" height="75" text="placona" difficulty="low">

Which will display something like this:

<cfimage action="captcha" fontSize="18" width="150" height="75" text="placona" difficulty="medium">

Displaying something like:

 

<cfimage action="captcha" fontSize="18" width="150" height="75" text="placona" difficulty="high">

Which displays my favorite and hardest one.

See how easy we go from very simple to very complex captchas by only changing the attribute difficulty?

Hope you liked the examples.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 8:52 AM - Categories: Tag of the day

Tag of the day: CFIMAGE

I was playing with my Alpha version of Scorpio and found some interesting new functions for images. The tag of the day was CFIMAGE

The marketing is what moves the business.

As most of the CF Developers are men, I decided to use this image :-) That was just 1% of what this tag can do, and here's the code:

<cfimage source="test.jpg" name="myImage"> <cfset attr = StructNew()> <cfset attr.underline = "no"> <cfset attr.size = 13> <cfset attr.style = "bold"> <cfset ImageSetDrawingColor(myImage,"white")> <cfset ImageDrawText(myImage,"placona.co.uk",90,170,attr)> <cfimage source="#myImage#" action="writeToBrowser">

Ps. I'm not breaking any NDA here as all the code shown here has been shown in previous posts about Scorpio's new features

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:03 AM - Categories: Tag of the day

Adobe Apollo

This is a Mike Chambers presentation about Adobe Apollo. Check it out

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:50 AM - Categories: Adobe