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Something I learned today in my very rare use of CFTRANSACTION. I have a process that merges member accounts. This is needed when people create more than one account because they forget or can’t access their email account, etc. Because of the scale of this operation and it’s total behind-the-scenes nature, I’m [...]

After seven months of heavy development and a rocky-but-now-stable launch behind me, I feel like I have some command over Model-Glue (instead of the other way around). I am certainly no expert but I want to share a few of the things that tripped me up when I was getting started and solutions that [...]

When I started the process of rebuilding my application in Model-Glue, Transfer and Coldspring nearly 9 months ago, the DIY programmer in me moaned at giving up direct control over the persistence layer in using Transfer. But it was clear that if I was going to commit to going OO with my ColdFusion application, [...]

After lots of hard work and many improvements by Aussie Mark Mandel, it looks like Transfer 1.0 is within a few hours is of a public release. Congrats Mark – a job well done!
Update 6/8: The announcement is out and the code is available for download. I’ll be upgrading our production tomorrow. [...]

Based on advice from Sean Corfield, I set up my application as a series of three sub-applications. A public application, a staff application and a superuser application. This is a great way to divide and conquer an application separating controllers and configuration but there aren’t many concrete examples of how to go about [...]

I’ve been working on my exception reports and one of the things I wanted to do was isolate the equivalent of a “404″ response in Model-Glue to be more graceful to the user. I found this post from Ray’s site and a promise in the comments from Joe Rinehart that typed exceptions would make [...]

A really interesting thread on CFGURU today discussing how to minimize the impact of clients that don’t accept cookies from rapidly creating “phantom” sessions that eat up memory. Because the client doesn’t accept a cookie, each request will appear to be a new client and ColdFusion will generate a new session along with any [...]

I love crazy long titles that make highly qualified claims. So as the title says, this is, in my humble opinion, the best available regular expression for ColdFusion developers who validate email addresses of everyday English-speaking users. Here is what I used to use, from cflib.org. This one is good because the [...]

I have been tempted, and even used successfully, the Transfer.clone() method to duplicate an existing Transfer object. But Mr. Corfield told me today that I was insane for relying on such a thing which is apparently well documented. So I began looking for another way to easily duplicate a transfer object.
Why I [...]

Is it possible to get permission to build and release a Live CD that includes a default ColdFusion Developer edition install on it? Or a VMWare image?
This would open a lot of possibilities for evangelizing and testing.