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openbd cfloop over a date

I'm trying to convert my sites from CF8 to openBD. I have a cfloop in a site that loops over a date range. In essence, I want to insert a new record into the db for every 2 weeks (step) of a date range (from and to) my loop looks like this... <cfloop from = "#form.startDate#" to = "#form.endDate#" index = "i" step =...

Is OpenBD or Railo a viable replacement for ColdFusion?

Has anyone here had any experience with running OpenBD or Railo in production? We have some legacy CF6.1 apps that need to be hosted somewhere and I'm wondering if OpenBD or Railo is stable enough for production use, won't require a great deal effort to migrate to, etc. ...

AUTH_USER and REMOTE_USER cgi variables

The docs aren't entirely clear on this - is there a difference between these variables? On IIS at least they appear to be identical, but I don't want to rely on that if it might be different under other servers. ...

CFML Design Pattern resources?

As with all development, CFML via ColdFusion, Railo or OpenBD we run into common programming problems. For these problems must programmer turn to patterns (or anti-patterns). However the classic resources like GOF and the modern Head First books both tend to focus on Java. While java is beautiful in its own right, all three cfml eng...

What's the best way to write engine-specific CFML code?

Sometimes it is necessary to write different code for Adobe ColdFusion vs Railo vs OpenBD, due to differences in implementation. Do people have a specific method that they use for this? For example, switching on ProductName is one option: <cfswitch expression="#Server.ColdFusion.ProductName#"> <cfcase value="ColdFusion Server"> ...

Coldfusion popularity

Hi, I've heard of Coldfusion being a server side technology for web app dev. Are there any statistics as to how widely it is used as opposed to PHP, Java Servlets and JSP or ASP.NET? Are there any special features in coldfusion that make learning it worth the while? Thanks, jrh PS: please don't close this question as argumentative. ...

Inexpensive CFML hosting on servers in EU

I'd like to change shared-hosting from servers located in US to EU in order to decrease number of hops and latency. Anyone having first hand experience with Coldfusion/Railo/OBD hosting providers from Europe? ...

What is Blue Dragon

I have searched the blue dragon website but cold not find any useful information on what it is. What is blue dragon? What is it used for and why would someone use it? ...

Will a CF code run on regular server?

I am tasked to integrate a CF code(about 70 lines) into our site then configure it to communicate to another site's server. However, our hosting site is just a typical server without CF support. Will the code run? All I know is that CF is Adobe's version of PHP and ASP. I have no experience coding it. Could you please enlighten me? From ...

Coldfusion deploy into Google app with Eclipse

I've download eclipse-jee-galileo-win32.zip and following instruction of this post, http://blog.kukiel.net/2009/09/coldfusion-on-google-app-engine-with.html After that, I encounter following errors once I've deleted war file and replace openbd's war files into my project. Please let me know if you have such problem just like me. ...