The Thinking Lemur

I absolutely love Adobe ColdFusion. I have been using it since version 3 and fell head over heals the first day I saw how easy it was to create a search directory, or send an email, or just about anything the average web application developer could want back in those days. It has matured tremendously [...]

This iteration of ColdFusion is absolutely wonderful. Now anyone can AJAX and look like a DHTML guru with just a few lines of code. A previous post outlined the problem of not being able to refresh the CFWindow content. CF8 uses the EXT js library as of version 1.1.1 (I think) which by default does [...]

I was going crazy trying to figure out why my href in the cfgridcolumn tag was not working with the new CFGrid in html mode. Apparently the appendKey attribute of the CFGrid tag is set to TRUE by default and this forces the href attribute to be a valid url. If you change the appendKey [...]

Recently I came across the situation where I wanted to refresh a cfwindow with a source tag that was bound to a hidden form field. When the value of the form field changed I wanted the window information to be reloaded, however since the value was being changed via javascript the onChange event was not [...]

This topic has been beaten to death by all the gurus in the CF community but I just noticed a funny little thing that I thought I would share. Ray Camden did his wonderful cheatsheet for CFC scopes and noted the differences, you can view it here.
Now after reading this you would assume that the [...]