Category: Agent K on CF

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CF developers wanted in Wellington, New Zealand

by kai on 14/04/2007

Where are all the good CF developers in New Zealand, particularly in Wellington? I currently have two clients based in Wellington that are looking for ColdFusion developers to either hire or for mid-/long-term contracting, various level of expertise from junior to guru wanted.

If by any chance someone who's currently reading this is interested, contact me off-blog via email to kai (at) "this domain" and I'll get you in touch with those folks.

CF jobs in Central Europe

by kai on 16/03/2007

Harry Klein asked me if I could mention a job offering that his company is looking to find a candidate for. Contens is looking for a Senior Core Developer for their product, as far as I understand this position would be based in Munich, Germany. Another interesting position I've stumbled across the other day is with Previon in Switzerland. They're looking for a Java developer as well as a CF…

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CF and web service stub/skeleton classes

by kai on 27/01/2007

This one is more of a reminder for myself ;-) I'm always slightly annoyed that ColdFusion caches the web services classes that it creates for later reuse - particularly during development.

Doug Boude blogged about how to overcome this via the almighty ServiceFactory (no support, folks) a while ago - I was just pointed to this by one of the other guys I'm working with at one of my current clients. Thanks Liam!

CF Flashforms and Safari

by kai on 19/12/2006

I've just had an interesting experience with a CF Flashform. I've built a Flashform-based survey application for a client and it worked just fine in IE and Firefox on different platforms. After a while the client came back and told us that their target audience (schools) are heavily into using the Safari browser on Mac and that they basically couldn't see the text of the survey questions. All the…

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ColdFusion MX 7 and Apache 2.2.x

by kai on 12/12/2006

Usually I'm pretty lazy with running my CF dev installation. I just use CF's internal HTTP server on port 8300 (as I run the multiserver setup) and put my apps in subfolders of the webroot. I just install a proper HTTP server if really necessary and not to be avoided ;) For some particular setup I've wanted to run on my dev machine, I had to do exactly this. I haven't setup a HTTP server on that…

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Akismet: stop comment spam 101

by kai on 01/12/2006

I've implemented akismet for Blog in Black the other day, after reading about it in Kay's blog. Akismet is really amazing - it's basically a wordpress plugin (implemented as some sort of HTTP-based service), which talks to a huge spamfilter hosted somewhere. The akismet plugin posts all the comment information to this service and gets a spam or nospam result back. Then it's up to you as a user…

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COM2Java

by kai on 01/11/2006

Today I've got some issues with bloody COM objects in ColdFusion. I have to say that I was able to avoid dealing with this type of third-party integration most of the time up to now - but in this particular situation for this particular client, there was just no other way. I've received an .ocx file, which is basically an ActiveX control. This .ocx file had to be registered on the Windows server…

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(CF)Eclipse/Flex Builder workspace crash - solution...?

by kai on 14/07/2006

Eclipse is an awesome platform, I totally converted all my development to it some while ago and I even use it for writing documents in LaTeX in Eclipse. Just a while ago, I failed to get Marty from 01 converting to Eclipse as well, particularly to CFEclipse. One of the reasons was that his Eclipse installation just broke down at least once totally - apparently his workspace crashed and Eclipse…

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Sessions: Cookies or URLToken

by kai on 03/07/2006

Just today I was having a discussion with some of my co-workers about using cookies or URL parameters for session handling. Or to be more precise: We didn't discuss technical issues, but we thought about how many people there are, who disable cookies on their own or who have to disable cookies due to system policies. I remember that the choice between cookie-based session-handling or URL token…

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XML external entities bug in CF

by kai on 17/05/2006

I've experienced a strange behaviour in CF when dealing with external XML entities. What I wanted to do was basically to break down an XML document into several smaller chunks of XML. Shouldn't be too difficult, hmmm? I had two xml files, both located in the same folder: a.xml: &config; b.xml: abc Following the…

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