Jake's musings, creations, hobbies, and aspirations.

Here's a problem that is a real life question I'd like to solve. I don't know if you could do this using ColdFusion (I know you don't need to), but…

I tend to keep a fairly static setup for a couple of years when it comes to my PCs/Laptops. So I don't migrate personal settings between PCs very often. But…

One reason I love ColdFusion is because it's case insensitive. There are only a few small edge cases where case matters in ColdFusion. And in my opinion, that is the…

Ok, that title may sound cryptic until you hear this story. First a little background. When I met my wife, I was instantly attracted to her because of her brain.…

Pablo Varando just announced the launch of ColdFusion.TV. I think this has the potential of being an excellent resource in the Community. Since the site is new, there isn't much…

In an application, I am using ColdFusion's isValid function to validate a US phone number. In my testing, I was getting "invalid phone number" from a number that starts with…

I just had an interesting spam attack on my site. It was identical spam contents posted to a bunch of my comment forms. I am using CFFormProtect (of course, I…

You would think we developers would have learned our lesson after the Y2K debacle...but I guess not. We are now faced with a similar problem, but this time dealing with…

I have released CFFormProtect 2.0.2, which has one minor change that makes it compatible with other CFML versions/engines besides ColdFusion 8. If you are curious, I had used the ++…

This article is bound to be controversial, but I beg you to keep an open mind as you read. I have put a lot of research into this, it is…