Category Archives: Programming

Memory leaks with Coldfusion 8

For the past few weeks I’ve been incognito due to some memory leak issues we’ve been having with our new app. It is essentially a rewrite of our existing web application using Object Oriented techniques and embraces the Model-View-Controller paradigm. It really is a pretty little thing but unfortunately she crumbled under the weight of [...]
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JSON format and serializing ColdFusion query objects

Every so often there is a tiny problem that has you scratching your head until you RTFM. I love JSON, it’s totally awesome and the fact that you can not convert CF objects natively is even better! I ran into a small issue where I was using serializeJSON on a structure that contained a query [...]
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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 have been [...]
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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 -4 for [...]
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