Tagged as ColdFusion

Saturday, February 2, 2013 Xindi CMS version 2013.2.2 released

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Changes include: Removed username field (email address used for login) Railo fix and support for basic support for changing subsystemDelimiter - contribution from John Whish Updated ARIA landmark roles Updated to version 2.1.1 of FW/1 Updated to version 1.8.3 of jQuery Updated to version ...

Monday, December 31, 2012 My new year's resolutions for 2013

So it's New Year's Eve and a good opportunity to review the resolutions I set myself a year ago. 2012 New Year's Resolutions Read the following books: jQuery: Novice to Ninja HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World Mobile Websites and Apps for Smartphones I read the first book, but didn't get around to reading the other two. However, I...

Saturday, December 8, 2012 Xindi CMS version 2012.12.8 released

The latest version of Xindi CMS is available to download from GitHub. Changes include an upgrade to the latest release of DI/1. Xindi is a small, lightweight and flexible CFML content management system. It's great for web developers looking for a simple way to make site content editable by their clients. Open source, free and flexible, Xindi is a great choice for your next web...

Friday, November 23, 2012 Xindi CMS version 2012.11.23 released

Today I released the latest version of Xindi CMS which is available to fork or download from GitHub. Xindi CMS is a small, lightweight and flexible CFML content management system. It's great for web developers looking for a simple way to make site content editable by their clients. Open source, free and flexible, Xindi is a great choice for your next web project. ...

Friday, October 5, 2012 An overview of Xindi CMS

I was recently asked to prepare some slides for a presentation giving an overview of Xindi CMS. I thought I would share the slides here. For more information about the project please visit getxindi.com. ...

Friday, August 24, 2012 Using CFSelenium with Xindi CMS

Before each release of Xindi we test to identify and fix any errors that might be present in the code. We have a suite of MXUnit unit tests that test the model, but testing the user interface (e.g. logging in, adding a page, editing a page, etc) has been a manual process. Ideally we wanted to be able to automate this testing. Fortunately Bob Silverberg's CFSelenium offers a solution to our ...

Thursday, August 23, 2012 Detecting datasource type in CFML

The code below returns the datasource type (i.e. MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, etc) in CFML. <!--- detect datasource type in ColdFusion/Railo using tags ---> <cfdbinfo type="version" datasource="datasource-name" name="result"> <cfdump var="#result.DATABASE_PRODUCTNAME#"> <!--- detect datasource type in ColdFusion usi...

Monday, August 20, 2012 FileAppend in ColdFusion

Frustratingly in ColdFusion there is no FileAppend method in CFSCRIPT. There is a FileWrite method, but it replaces content rather than appends to it. To overcome this problem you can do the following: // open an on-disk file to which you would like to append content fileObj = FileOpen( ExpandPath(".") & "\foobar.txt","append" ); // append content ...