CFMX Updater is here

the long awated rolled up super fly updater is finally here.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/cfmx61_updater.htm

have fun kiddies.? Among many fixes, this adds teh ability to send inline images in email.?


hey there kiddies

Not much volume of posts here at the moment.? I’ve been working frantically on one of those higly visible projects, you know, the ones that come with a huge list of requirements and a short deadline.? yeehaw!? Its a kewl project though, a big portal initiative for the sales force at Alltel.? In short a big CMS.??? c’ya!


oops!

A new Tech Note?at Macr is out.? Apparently there are some security concerns about using the loginstorage attribute introduced in CFMX6.1.? When you specify session as a value for this attribute, session stored data can persist past a logout.? So, session based cflogin is not such a good idea.? Use the cookie value, the default value, instead.


5 free tools for any web devr

Site point has a noice little article on 5 free tools any web devr should have

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/free-web-design-apps


CFCs and thread safety

Lots of chatting going on about CFCs, application scope,?and thread safety on the CFDev list.? Popular topic that rears its head often.? What to do?? Have to var scope your variables used within cffunction definitions in your CFCs.? This means all variables!? Or does it?? So, make sure you var scope those iterators and query names.? But what about CFFILE or CFFTP?? So far the verdict is this:? some variable scopes are fixed in CF and live in the request scope, therefore no worries, safe as is.? Now, is this the correct way to say this?? hmmm….