Steve Sommers

Recent Blog Comments By Steve Sommers

• ColdFusion Arguments Object Can Act As Ghetto Pass-By-Reference Array

  Posted on Aug 8, 2013 at 2:17 PM

  Hi Ben, On a somewhat related topic, is there an easy way to forward arguments from one function to another? Something like this: <cffunction name="conditionalForward" ...> <!-- condition met --> <cfset variables.obj.anotherFunction( arguments=arguments ) /> </... read more »

• Ask Ben: Selecting XML Nodes That Have A Given Parent Node Using XPath

  Posted on Jun 20, 2013 at 6:19 PM

  Somewhat related question, once you find a node, is there a way to determine the parent? In your books example, let's modify the xml to include an id attribute in the book tag. Once I find all the name nodes, I want to find the parent and if the parent is "book", then get the id. I know ... read more »

• Creating ColdFusion Proxy Components With ColdFusion 9's GetFunctionCalledName()

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM

  I just found this post and was wondering (please don't laugh too hard if it's a dumb question), can this technique be used to proxy web services as well?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Testing For ColdFusion Session Management

  Posted on Sep 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM

  Well the disadvantage of using undocumented features is that the vendor (Adobe) is not obliged to maintain it. CF10 no longer has this value in the getApplicationSettings() returned structure. For the life of me, I don't know why -- just another gotcha.... read more »