Category Archives: Programming

Authorize.net AIM osCommerce Payment Issue

This has to be one of the most irritating issues I’ve come across in some time. Using any of the Authorize.net AIM modules for osCommerce 2.2 the customer would consistently be sent back to the Payment Details page with an error: There has been an error processing your credit card It seems that many people [...]

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It’s been a while

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated

I recently upgraded to PHP 5.3.0 after having some issues with FASTCGI and 5.2.x on Windows but the moment I did this I started getting numerous warnings. The one that appeared the most was: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated Apparently in PHP5 all objects are passed as reference and 5.3.0 [...]

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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 [...]

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