I ran into this question on the Adobe forums. I’ve answered it about 6 times recently so here’s how to backup your data sources, mappings and other settings in ColdFusion Administrator.

A reader of my OOCF Primer asks: “Instead of having multiple cfc’s can one have just 1 cfc?” The answer is: it depends.

I was setting up my recently installed ubuntu development environment when I ran into a frustrating issue with how CF 8 connects to MySQL.

Thanks to the CFEclipse plug-in, more and more ColdFusion developers have been moving to Eclipse as their primary editor and IDE. The one complaint I’ve heard most often from people familiar with HomeSite, CF Studio and DreamWeaver is that there’s no way to search for blocks of code. Thanks to Aptana, that is no longer a problem.

Over the weekend, I decided to get my home development environments back in shape. I had tried installing Linux on my laptop some time ago and that was tragic. Today it’s much easier.

Just when we thought we had conquered it, the VAR scope came back to haunt us.

At least I think I’m not. It happens in a DirectoryWatcher (Event Gateway) method. Can someone take a look at this and let me know what you think.

It’s very easy to iterate (loop) over a simple array variable. It’s also trivial to get a specific element. But when the array is returned from a function, you can’t just ask for getFoo()[x]. Or can you?

Did you know I ran a Coldfusion Hosting Company? No? Neither did anyone else.

Ok, so we’ve got the concept of a DAO and how it interacts with a bean. Here’s an example of a form and an action page using Object Oriented Coldfusion.