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Ben Forta posted a link to an interview with Dave Spurr today. I know Dave quite well and even linked to some excellent work of his a few months ago. The reason I’m blogging about this is that I’m quite impressed that his name showed up on Forta’s blog but also to point out that [...]

Adding categories to a Verity collection made a simple search interface run over 10 times slower. Is this a bug?

I thought I’d blog about this because I haven’t found any mention of it anywhere else on the web. I was working with CFFILE today and the tag kept throwing the following error while attempting to move a file: Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE. The value of the attribute source, which is currently “C:\JRun4\ser…\cfusion-war-tmp\uploaded-file.dat”, is invalid. I must’ve [...]

trim() is probably the CF function I have used the most throughout my career. Today, this trusted and straightforward function behaved in the most unexpected way: it didn’t trim the string!
Now, the string I was attempting to trim was passed in from a textarea and had been pasted in from a spreadsheet cell and… IT [...]

Why you should never use SELECT * and CFQUERYPARAM together inside CFQUERY.