Installing ColdFusion 10 under MAMP Pro 2 on OS X Lion

I’ve been attending a whole host of ColdFusion 10 Developer Week 2012 sessions this week, and got inspired to upgrade my development machine to run ColdFusion 10. I had previously been running CF9 (developer) and MAMP Pro 2.0.5. These instructions will allow you to remove CF9 and install CF10. Installing and configuring MAMP Pro is … Continue Reading →

Combining Two RSS Feeds in CFScript

RSS Truck

In a previous post, I had written an example of combining two RSS feeds into one. At some point, I lost the code from the example, probably from clicking save one-too-many times in WordPress. WordPress is quite finicky about posting any kind of programming code. I did some research, and found PasteBin, and have started … Continue Reading →

Parks Canada’s Glacier Walk Proposal

Glacier Discover Walk Concept

Parks Canada emailed me today in regards to the Glacier Walk proposal in Jasper National Park. They provided several pieces of information: Setting the Record Straight (PDF) Questions and Answers – The Proposed Brewster Glacier Discovery Walk Link to Brewster’s Glacier Discovery Walk website It almost sounds like the proposal has already been approved, and … Continue Reading →

ColdFusion Proxy to avoid Cross-Site Scripting

Here’s a method to get an JSON feed with ColdFusion. This will work in ColdFusion 7 and later. This is useful for avoiding cross-site scripting in Javascript/jQuery – You would simply call your remote feed on your local server, and then your jQuery would be able to call a “local” resource. Code walkthrough: Use CFHTTP … Continue Reading →

Getting an RSS Feed in ColdFusion with CFHTTP

Here’s a method to get an RSS feed with ColdFusion. This will work in ColdFusion 7 and later. Code walkthrough: Use CFHTTP to generate an HTTP request and handle the response from the server. This should return XML. Use XMLParse to attempt to convert the CFHTTP.FileContent response into an XML document object. If the result … Continue Reading →

Suddenly, Ninja Squirrel!

While I was perusing my Twitter feed this afternoon, I saw @RebeccaWatson re-tweet about animalsbeingdicks.com. This turned out to be a relatively new site that features animated GIFs of animals being dicks. I spent wasted a few minutes going through all the links. I found this one particularly funny, although many of them made me … Continue Reading →