Mark Andrachek

Recent Blog Comments By Mark Andrachek

• Streaming Secure Files Efficiently With ColdFusion And MOD XSendFile

  Posted on Apr 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM

  Been doing this and similar for the past 4 or 5 years. :) FYI, writing an IIS module for IIS7+ that does this is not very difficult (c#). Prior to IIS7 it's a... hassle (ISAPI filters and native code), so I've never bothered.... read more »

• Returning NULL Values In JSON Using SerializeJSON() And ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM

  @Ben It depends on where the data you're serializing comes from. You might have to do a lot of javaCast()'s. You also have to watch out for CF converting all your struct keys to uppercase, unless you use array notation (since JSON is case sensitive). However, something like a cfquery (if comes from ... read more »

• Returning NULL Values In JSON Using SerializeJSON() And ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 5, 2011 at 11:22 PM

  I've had good luck using Jackson for serializing/deserializing JSON with CF. It won't map to CFC instances, but it can handle nulls. It can work from cfmx-9, is very fast, and can be made to send integers as integers rather than floats.... read more »

• Back To The Fusion - Part X

  Posted on Feb 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM

  Starring Link? Zelda + ColdFusion could be cool I guess. As long as I don't have to feed it bits of hearts.... read more »

• Appending One Array To Another With ArrayAppendAll() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 19, 2010 at 5:33 PM

  Why not use the Java? 1) Well, other coldfusion implementations may not support it (Railo, OpenBD, BD.NET). If you want to be portable across CF runtimes, you're pretty much stuck with plain jane cfml. 2) Adobe might change their API in a future release.Thing is, they could do the same with the CF... read more »

• Appending One Array To Another With ArrayAppendAll() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM

  The java way is simpler, and faster.... read more »

• Creating Base64-Encoded Data URLs For Images In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 1, 2010 at 11:30 AM

  @Ben @Justin It makes a certain sense to have to enable them. Otherwise, the porn spammers would do this. No privacy issues, but still NSFW images showing up in your mail.... read more »

• Creating Base64-Encoded Data URLs For Images In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM

  @Ben I don't know of any planned changes to IE9, but I doubt it's a focus for them. I've been using extjs, and this exact issue came up with regards to exporting a grid to excel. We're doing it server side, for several reasons (this is one of them). I ran across a nifty little flash app, downl... read more »

• Creating Base64-Encoded Data URLs For Images In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM

  Not all browsers support the data URI scheme. IE7 and earlier doesn't support data uri's at all. IE8 has a 32k limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme... read more »

• Adobe Announces That HomeSite Is Officially Dead

  Posted on Jul 19, 2009 at 6:04 AM

  So is flash paper.... read more »