Category Archives: ColdFusion

Problem with ColdFusion ListQualify function?

Posted on March 15, 2010 by arcster

Here’s a ColdFusion/Oracle problem that took way longer than I thought it would. I wanted to exclude a couple names from a result set an pass the names in a single-quote, comma-delimited list: <cfset tempexcludelist =”PHIL,DON”> <cfset VARIABLES.excludelist = “(“&ListQualify(tempexcludelist,”‘”)&”)”> … Continue reading →

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Cool Find and Replace using regexp

Posted on June 9, 2009 by arcster

So I saved an Excel file as a tab-separated text file. Then I wanted to add some html. The first column was all numbers followed by a tab and the second column. I opened the text file in Dreamweaver and … Continue reading →

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Shun the Coldfusion Developer’s Journal

Posted on July 11, 2008 by arcster

Every fricking time I go to the Coldfusion Developer’s Journal (coldfusion.sys-con.com), Firefox crashes. I hate that.

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ColdFusion/Outlook email discovery

Posted on March 14, 2008 by arcster

Generating an Outlook meeting invitation from ColdFusion is a challenge. There are snippets of code here and there, but I finally got a working solution. <cfmail to=”someone@someplace.com (Name here)” from=”someoneelse@someplace.com (Name)” subject=”Test appointment from ColdFusion” type=”multipart”> <cfmailparam name=”content-class” value=”urn:content-classes:calendarmessage”> <cfmailparam … Continue reading →

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Another day in the life of a ColdFusion drone

Posted on February 14, 2008 by arcster

This may be of use to the handful of people in the universe who: 1. use ColdFusion; 2. have no direct access to their Coldfusion server; 3. need to manipulate PowerPoint on the server; and 4. aren’t using .NET OK, … Continue reading →

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