Tag: coldfusion

Using the Methods You Love in a Language That Is Lacking

Because I switch between ColdFusion and Ruby on a weekly basis, when I work on ColdFusion I sometimes miss some of the features that I have in Ruby. Like having a hash return a nil when a key doesn't exist, rather than getting an error when a key...

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CFHTTP and Pivotal Tracker API

We use the awesome Pivotal Tracker to manage our projects. We've integrated some of our other systems with Pivotal Tracker to help our clients see clearly how our time correlates to their user stories.

Pivotal Tracker switched to SSL-only over the...

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No more data available to read / 4096

Yes, ColdFusion MX 6.1 is old, but some of our customers are still running it, and we're here to support them. A particular large select query against a SQL Server 2000 database was erroring out with either "No more data available to read" or...

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Code of a method longer than 65535 bytes

Encountered the above while parsing an XML file in ColdFusion.

Root of the problem:

This is a limitation of Java. A classfile may not exceed 65535 bytes. ColdFusion compiles CFML into Java bytecode, and each method gets its own .class file. (Look in...

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