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Mike Tilley

Member since Apr 23, 2010

Recent Blog Comments By Mike Tilley

  • ColdFusion String Comparison: Compare() vs. Equals() vs. CompareTo()

    Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM

    Ok - I'm officially an idiot. After methodically eliminating every other possible cause (and possible fix) it turned out that the the two filenames I was comparing were NOT, in fact, identical. One of the names contained a typo that I still couldn't see after looking at it a million times (maybe BEC... read more »

  • ColdFusion String Comparison: Compare() vs. Equals() vs. CompareTo()

    Posted on May 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM

    Came across another strange one today: I have a statement that compares two strings derived from filenames: <cfif CurrentBaseName EQ NextBaseName> This has been working for years. Today it failed with the filename "582SustainingEngineeringPlanTemplate 20120417" - although ... read more »

  • ColdFusion Application.cfc Tutorial And Application.cfc Reference

    Posted on Sep 21, 2010 at 11:17 AM

    From May 2007: "..I am going to work on making a print-friendly version of my blog detail pages. Thanks for bearing with me." Love the Blog - some entries (like this one) would be great to print as a reference, but printed versions are still horrible. FireFox does such a completely useless job tha... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Hiding / Encrypting ColdFusion CFID And CFTOKEN Values

    Posted on Apr 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    This may be slightly off-topic but I got here looking for help with HTMLEditFormat, which is mentioned here. I'm using HTMLEditFormat to encode some strings passed in hidden form fields - but before I write the data to a table field I would like to remove the encoding in order to store the raw text... read more »

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