Adam Cameron's Dev Blog

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Update regarding irritation: cheers Rakshith

G'day:
Y/day I got all ranty with this: "Please indicate your irritation @ the ColdFusion Team".

A bunch of people joined in the irritation (that sounds vaguely NSFW, I know), and fortunately Adobe have fed back:

@dacCfml @AdamTuttle @adobeCare @ColdFusion This issue will be reopened and evaluated. #ColdFusion
— Rakshith Naresh (@rakshithn) September 10, 2014

Adam made a good follow-up point, and Rakshith responded positively to that too:

@AdamTuttle @dacCfml @adobeCare That should have been the initial response itself. Something for us correct going forward.
— Rakshith Naresh (@rakshithn) September 10, 2014

This is all positive. I thanked him on Twitter, but I just wanted to say thanks here too.

Good man, Rakshith: thanks.

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Adam

Looking at PHP's OOP from a CFMLer's perspective: traits

G'day:
As the title says, this is the third part of a series. The first two parts are here:

I suspect this will be the last part on this topic, but don't hold me to that just yet. Let's see how it goes (update: no, not by a long march... I'm writing part 4 now, and there'll be more after that).

Basically I'm working my way down the topics on the "Classes and Objects" page of the PHP reference, and getting myself up to speed with how PHP does it's OO. And documenting my observations as I go.

Please indicate your irritation @ the ColdFusion Team

G'day:
They've gone and done it again, as apporproately described by Adam Tuttle:

.@dacCfml here's a giant pile of @adobe bollocks: https://t.co/1bm94AJlHI http://t.co/lx6ZrucqUi
— [object Object] (@AdamTuttle) September 9, 2014

PHP: how does PHP deal with same-named form values? [shudder]

G'day:
I seriously hope I'm wrong here, but it seems to me that PHP's default "handling" of multiple same-named form fields is... to ignore all bar the last one. That's not to say the values aren't still accessible for one to deal with via bespoke code, but... come on PHP. Really?

OK, so CFCamp 2014 after all

G'day:
As you may or may not know, I'm almost certainly going to be leaving the CFML world shortly. I should have clarity on that in a few weeks, and will give you the details then.

Last year Mike Hnat - organiser of CFCamp - very kindly covered my costs to go to CFCamp 2013, and I had a really excellent time (see various articles on the topic here: "CFCamp"), and promised myself and him I'd be back in 2014. And planned to do it on my own dime this time.

Enhancing block syntax in CFML

G'day:
This is not an article per-se, but just a heads-up to go have a read of something Rory (I dunno Rory beyond his name on the forum post) has raised on the Railo Google Group: "I actually like tags in script". I think this is worth a read, and worth people putting their oar in.

And, hey, listen: even if you are a staunch ColdFusion-only person, it's worth reading and participating in the conversation, as it's a general CFML topic, and what Railo implements generally leads the way for where Adobe's CFML goes (except when Adobe balls it up, which, admittedly, is frequently). The Railo Google Group is probably the best place to discuss CFML stuff, in my opinion.

So, anyway, go have a read, a think, and put your thoughts down.

I'm still formulating my position, and when I flesh it out I'll post it both there and here. Obviously I don't agree with everything he says (esp. given its basis is in part specifically disagreeing with things I've had said in the past), but I don't disagree as much as Rory might think I do.

I'm in Ireland over the weekend, so that gives me plenty of time to think about stuff (at the Salt House, pint in hand), so I should come up with something at some stage soon.

Righto.

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Adam

Thursday, 4 September 2014

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G'day:
I've been keeping an eye on how many untriaged ColdFusion bugs there are: