I’ve not posted anything on my blog for a while, it always amazes me how the top bloggers in the ColdFusion world find the time to post almost daily about tips, tricks, resources and I hardly every find the time to write a note to myself. My posts don’t seem as interesting or as insightful [...]
Category Archives: ColdFusion
Fix/Int (Floor) function oddity in ColdFusion 8
I’ve discovered an odd little “bug” in the Fix and Int functions in ColdFusion 8. The Fix/Int functions work similarly to the Floor function in other languages: According to the ColdFusion 8 LiveDocs Int - Calculates the closest integer that is smaller than number. For example, it returns 3 for Int(3.3) and for Int(3.7); it returns [...]
CFPOP and SSL
One of the reasons I love Adobe’s ColdFusion so much is the fact that it is built on a Java engine and you are able to use a lot of the powerful features of Java from CF. I however don’t get to use this feature often enough, mainly because most of the things I work [...]
PayPal Annoyances
This is a trivial post but Paypal integration has been a headache over the past few years which the manuals having incorrect information, differences between the UK and US apis and hugely unhelpful error codes. Things have gotten a bit better in recent times but still not as good as it should be given the [...]
Setting secure attribute of JSESSIONID cookie in ColdFusion 8
As part of PCI compliance our servers were run through third party security auditing and one warning we received was “Missing Secure Attribute in an Encrypted Session (SSL) Cookie”. This warning referred to the JSESSIONID cookie being set in our SSL enabled pages not having the SECURE attribute set. In ColdFusion there is no way [...]
