ColdFusion 10 File Uploads and MIME Types
Quick Note: On one project that I'm on, we're in the process of moving from ColdFusion 9 to 10. During some regression testing, one of the testers began receiving errors on file uploads. When looking...
View ArticleeBay Looking for a ColdFusion Developer
Ben Smith, of Panzer Solutions, sent me an email stating that eBay is looking for a ColdFusion developer to work on their Marketing Resource Management solution (MARS). Here are the particulars: Job...
View ArticleColdFusion Dev needed: South Florida
Ellie Taylor called me this morning, looking for a solid ColdFusion developer in south Florida. Beacon Hill Technologies is seeking a Coldfusion/SQL Devloper for a direct hire or contract position with...
View ArticleColdFusion Dev Needed: Albany, NY
Naresh Taneja, of USTech Solutions, forwarded on the following position. If interested, please email your latest resume. Position: Coldfusion Consultant Duration: 24+ Months Location: Albany, NY...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 2: Getting Started
Your ColdFusion site is crawling. Pages take seconds to render. The DOS attacks from China are taking you down daily. Your boss is crawling up your backside, because clients are running away. And......
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 3: The Right Tools
You don't use an butter knife when you need a hatchet, nor a machete when you need a scalpel. When you're bringing Legacy Code out of the Dark Ages, you need the right tools. That old copy of...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 4: You Don't Know...
You're bringing your ColdFusion app into this century, but you've never heard of CFC's? Still using third party tags for image manipulation? Didn't know there was scripting? Before you start touching...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 5: Crossroads
So, you're committed to bringing your legacy ColdFusion app into this century. You've been following along with these posts, and maybe even started to study some of the latest technologies. Now comes...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 6: Map Your App
You've picked up some new hardware, setup a new local dev environment, and started learning the ins and outs of the modern web age. Your Legacy Code is getting more out of touch every day that goes...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 7: How To Map Your App
So, in our last post we talked about Mapping Your App being your next step, but then a question came to me, "How?" Well, that's a very valid question. When I took on this exercise, several years ago,...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 8: Protect Your App Now
There's been a lot of publicity, recently, about the loss of sensitive PII (Personally Identifiable Information) on the web, and legacy ColdFusion applications have been hit especially hard....
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 9: Effort of Scope
We've been discussing the upgrade of Legacy Code. For our purposes, this is outdated ColdFusion code, often written against long retired versions of the ColdFusion server, that is still running out in...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 10: Be Persistent
As I said in my last post, scoping all of your variables can be a huge performance improvement for your dated Legacy Code. By explicitly scoping each and every variable reference, within your...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 11: Pass It Along
One thing that affects application performance, in your Legacy Code, could be a lack of (or misuse of) variable scoping. In our last post we discussed the usage of the various persistent scopes. Now,...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 12: The Scope of Tags
When upgrading Legacy Code, part of the fun is moving from a much older procedural process of coding to a more Object Oriented way of coding. For those who have little experience with OO development,...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 13: An Object Lesson
When upgrading Legacy Code applications to modern ColdFusion programming, one of the greatest advancement of the past decade was the ability to create CFCs. CFCs allow you to create reusable objects...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 14: The Rest of the Scope Story
In our continuing quest, to upgrade Legacy Code to the modern age, we continue our discussion on scoping. As previously noted, you should explicitly scope each and every variable. Aside from the...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 15: Continue to Maintain, Sustain, and Innovate
All of the steps we've taken, up to this point, have talked specifically to bringing your code into this century. Chances are, you're still maintaining this application. Maybe you have a new module...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 16: How You Get Data
One of the greatest culprits in poorly performing ColdFusion applications, Legacy Code or modern, is badly written SQL. ColdFusion was originally written as a middle tier between the web server and...
View ArticleLegacy Code Part 17: The Rest of The Story
As developers, sometimes it is hard to see beyond the code. We know code. We like code. Some of us occasionally even dream in code (just ask my wife...) Knowing this, it is sometimes difficult, when...
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