Chris Bowyer

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• ColdFusion GetTempDirectory() Stops Working

  Posted on Dec 22, 2013 at 12:52 PM

  What specifically is the significance of a scratch directory? In short, I don't get it. Seems to me it could be called anything, as long as it is not in the web root.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Uploading Multiple Files Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM

  @Alas, Thanks! Very helpful. It was doing my head in too.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

  Posted on May 29, 2013 at 9:53 AM

  Just wondering if there is really a need to declare a doctype... read more »

• New ColdFusion CFMailParam "Remove" Attribute Makes Deleting Attachments Simple

  Posted on Mar 28, 2013 at 12:08 PM

  I have an intermittent issue of two cfmail tags on the same page with their own differently named attachments, sometimes doubling up on their own attachments. Any ideas?... read more »

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Jun 30, 2012 at 10:43 PM

  I stopped Flash forms a few years ago because they didn't work in Safari and from what I recall, there was a base href issue as well. In general, I avoid most really cool ColdFusion features because there are better alternatives... jQuery etc.... read more »

• ColdFusion CFQuery MaxRows Not A Bad Compromise When TOP Not Available

  Posted on Dec 10, 2011 at 4:02 PM

  @Ben, Thanks for doing the legwork on this... It's good enough for me to presume that MySQL's LIMIT is somewhere on par with TOP over maxrows. @Sharath, With MySQL you can forget about maxrows and do it like this: SELECT column FROM table LIMIT 1 OFFSET 50 Other than that, you could set ... read more »

• A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks

  Posted on Dec 9, 2011 at 9:48 PM

  A couple of other things... If manually entering a task (using Administrator), you need to enter the correct format for your locale. However, if programmatically entering a task (using cfschedule), and you enter the wrong format, it will be automatically reformatted. In addition, the minimum frequ... read more »

• A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks

  Posted on Dec 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM

  Bug report has now been submitted.... read more »

• A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks

  Posted on Dec 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM

  I don't know if this is documented, but it appears that a scheduled task with no end date is actually limited to about eight weeks in the developer edition. I deduced this from a task that would no longer work until I manually deleted and programatically added it again.... read more »

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Oct 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM

  Oops! The MySQL time zone tables were actually correct. That said. MySQL has some rather cool date time functions... The following will format and convert UTC to the correct Sydney date time, select orders for the previous 24 hours, and compensate for daylight saving... SELECT DATE_FORMA... read more »

• Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

  Posted on Oct 2, 2011 at 8:07 PM

  Just something to be aware of if using a combination of now() and getDate() If running SQL on a different machine and the time is not in sync on both machines, you can end up with a, what came first, the chicken or the egg scenario e.g. orders being dated processed a second or more before they are ... read more »

• GMail Seems To Ignore The Return-Path Header Defined By The CFMail FailTo Attribute

  Posted on Aug 27, 2011 at 2:21 AM

  The failto address seems to work correctly now, unless a display name is added e.g. failto="Fred <fred@example.com>" Adding a display name to the failto attribute does work with GoDaddy though, and I am left wondering if it is jusy Godaddy's server being lenient, or if I shouldn't b... read more »

• Javascript: The Good Parts By Douglas Crockford

  Posted on May 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM

  @Tony: Yipes! If you think that's bad... A fellow developer I know, refers to JavaScript as Java all the time. You are quite right though, Ben, get it right :)... read more »

• At cf.Objective() 2012 Jason Dean Is Going Down!

  Posted on May 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM

  Looks to me like he had a bit more leverage on you... You seem a bit more stretched out across the table... read more »