CartWeaver SQL Injection holes

The ColdFusion version of CartWeaver has some security vulnerabilities that were discovered. French security company FrSIRT has released an announcement about the holes, also stating that there are no known…

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CFDynamics launches CFD Blogger

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I saw news today that there's a new blogging service on the block, and it's from the popular ColdFusion hosting company CFDynamics. This was cool to see, at first, because…

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Obtaining Affected rows from SQL Query

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In ColdFusion, it is easy to get the row count from a SQL select statement, just use recordcount. But what about when you do an insert, update or delete? In…

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New poll

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I've added a new poll to this blog. This time, I'm curious how many email addresses you currently use. I'm interested in the amount that you use, not counting those…

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ColdFusion dynamic variable names

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Oftentimes I find myself in a position where I think I need to have a dynamic variable name. For example, if you need to store contents in unique variables, but…

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CFQueryParam problems after you change a query

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On CF-Talk today, an interesting comment about CFQueryParam was made by Adam Howitt. He mentioned that sometimes you will run into database errors because of using cfqueryparam. He wasn't saying…

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I’m not very nerdy

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I took this test, and only got 25 out of 100 on the nerdy scale. I'd didn't think I was very nerdy, but I do enjoy a few nerdy type…

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New CFQuickDocs Features

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I've uploaded an update to CFQuickDocs, my tool for quickly looking up documentation on ColdFusion tags and functions. After my last update, I had a few feature suggestions from the…

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CFQuickDocs update

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I've launched another update to CFQuickDocs. I added random tips to let people know about some of the features available on the site. This is an extension of my continuing…

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ESPN.com’s standards based redesign

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I was reading an article today about ESPN's move to standards compliant code, using CSS and ditching tables (except where relevant). A couple of nuggets I wanted to share:1. They…

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