Tony Monast

Recent Blog Comments By Tony Monast

• TODO: Granting Yourself Permission To Move Forward

  Posted on Aug 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM

  // TODO: Comment this awesome blog post from Ben.... read more »

• ColdFusion 2021 MySQL Query No Longer Returning Dates As Dates

  Posted on Mar 8, 2024 at 9:06 PM

  Hi Ben, I don't have the environment to test, but couldn't you just use ParseDateTime instead of dateAdd to make sure the variable is treated as a date?... read more »

• Lessons Learned From Sending 7 Million Emails In 5 Days Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 9, 2024 at 4:59 PM

  Hi Ben! Very nice work once again and thank you for sharing it all. I would be curious to know if specialized platforms for sending emails would have agreed to have more than 7 million unfiltered contacts and how much it would have cost monthly for the subscription and/or sending the email... read more »

• Making Sure Scheduled Tasks Don't Overlap In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 11, 2013 at 10:07 AM

  Ben, thank you for this information! I tried it and it works. Have a nice day!... read more »

• Maintaining Line Breaks In An HTML-Excel File

  Posted on Oct 3, 2012 at 9:26 AM

  Thanks Ben for this tip!... read more »

• Why NULL Values Should Not Be Used in a Database Unless Required

  Posted on Sep 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM

  Hi, Here an example : tblData (ID, Name, Class) 1 | 'Ben' | Null 2 | 'Tony' | Null 3 | 'Jessica Alba' | 'sexy' 4 | 'Shakira' | 'sexy' 5 | 'Gollum' | 'ugly' On SQL Server, when you do SELECT ID, Name FROM tblData WHERE Class <> 'sexy' You could think that the query will return all recor... read more »

• Getting RGBA Pixel Data From ColdFusion Images Using GetPixels()

  Posted on Mar 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM

  Thanks Ben for this article! GetPixels() helped me to print graphics on a Plastic ID Card Printer. I needed each pixel of the graphic to generate the appropriate hexa code for the printer. The other article about InputBaseN and FormatBaseN was helpful too!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Table Names In ColdFusion Queries

  Posted on Nov 13, 2008 at 4:50 PM

  Oh, sorry, I didn't see that you was saying that you check the value before doing the query. My bad! ;)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Table Names In ColdFusion Queries

  Posted on Nov 13, 2008 at 4:42 PM

  Andy, The attacker don't need to upload a malicious cfm page on your server. He just save the file on his own hard-drive, edit the code of the HTML (action attribute of the form and options of the select input), then he just open the modified file locally with his browser and submit it. The action ... read more »