Free ColdFusion Hosting

So it seems that Pablo Varando is inovating once more. Now it's time to provide free ColdFusion hosting. The website is still under construction, but if you have a look at the home, you can see some very interesting features that will e provided really for free. The free websites will have some kind of adds, but it's still worth in case you don't use your website for commercial purposes. Just a brief description of features enabled for FREE in this service:

• 1GB Hard Disk Space
• 5GB Bandwidth (Monthly data)
• 1 MS SQL Database
• ColdFusion MX 7.1 (Enterprise License)
• Unlimited Email Accounts

Looks very good to me! What about you?

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 5:47 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

cfdump var="placona.co.uk"

Following the post started by Tim, here's my profile:

 

Which for those who can't read CF code means:

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 5:41 AM - Categories: Misc | ColdFusion

Wanna be a ColdFusion 8 Beta Tester?

In case you haven't heard about this, Adobe is "recruiting" Beta Testers for ColdFusion 8 Beta Release. If you're still not part of the beta program, this is your chance. Yes, I wanna be a ColsFusion 8 beta tester!

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 5:31 AM - Categories: Adobe | ColdFusion

Regexp saves the day

So, we just upgraded one of our servers to version 7.0.2. Everything was working fine, except for some stored procedures being called by tag. What was wrong? Basically, the versions before 7.0.2 didn't bother if the contents of the attribute dbvarname were being sent using an "@" before or not. It means the something like:

<cfstoredproc procedure="my_proc" datasource="#request.ds#">     <cfprocparam     type="In"             cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER"             dbvarname="i_id"             value="#attributes.i_id#"             null="No">     <cfprocresult name="content"> </cfstoredproc>

Will become:

<cfstoredproc procedure="my_proc" datasource="#request.ds#">     <cfprocparam     type="In"             cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER"             dbvarname="@i_id"             value="#attributes.i_id#"             null="No">     <cfprocresult name="content"> </cfstoredproc>

Apparently nothing changes, unless you have a look at the attribute dbvarname, and you'll see that an "@" was added before the variable name.

The way to fix it? Very easy, just use your favorite IDE and replace using regular expression.

Search for: dbvarname="([^@])

Replace with: dbvarname="@\1

And it's done! The regExp speaks for itself, as it's looking for something starting with the string dbvarname and that doesn't contain an "@" at the beginning. Then it replaces the result for the string dbvarname="@ and the variable name. Hope it helps someone.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:33 AM - Categories: Adobe | Misc | ColdFusion

iPhone undocumented features?

That's AMAZING! It'll really make my life much easier ;-)

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:02 AM - Categories: Misc

Flash player for Linux

They finally made it! Adobe just released the Flash Player for Linux. Now Linux users can deploy apps using the free Adobe Flex® 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and Flex Data Services 2 Express. All this for free... nothing... nada... niente! So if you're using Linux, it's a must to go to www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayerlinux and download it now!

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:19 AM - Categories: Linux

Back from the paradise

After almost a month without posting, today I'm posting the first entry of the year. Lot's of things going on and pretty busy after the holidays in Brazil. Got tired of the sunny days and beautiful beaches to come back to the cold and wet London (I love this) ;-) Life is pretty much the same this year, but for some reason I predict it'll change... a lot ;-) Coding has been really lazy, I think I forgot this part of my brain somewhere in Brazil, but have to find it until the end of this week. I've met some interesting people there, and will post some photos soon. I know it's a bit late, but happy new year to everybody and I promise I'll post loads of interesting stuff during this year.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 8:23 AM - Categories: Misc