The MySQL error, Data truncation: Incorrect datetime value, is rather obvious and is caused by trying to insert a non datetime value into a datetime field in MYSQL 5.1. I was surprised to find the same code would run without error on MySQL 4.1. Apparently, earlier versions of MySQL would convert incorrect datetime values into 0000-00-00 00:00:00 and proceed without error. It seems that throwing the error is a better option to alert the developer of a problem if they are attempting to insert a non datetime value into a datetime value field.

I've been moving a site from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and thought I would mention one of the items I ran into this evening.I needed to setup 301 redirects for some old domain names that we no longer use and at first glance could not figure out where to do so.

Join me tomorrow night at the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting where Dave Shuck will be presenting a beginner’s introduction to ColdSpring and dependency injection, following by yours truly presenting Chapter 7 of the Head First Design Patterns book: Adapter and Facade patterns. There is usually food, nerds, and a chance to network and [...]

I'm involved in a project that is using the flexlib WindowShade component and it generally works well and unless it content is resized. Here's a simple fix for this. [More]

Hello world of all things ColdFusion, Flex and Air! We are officially opening up the list of topics for the community to vote on! Our keen and trusty Advisory Board have voted on some of these topics already. Some of the topics they are voting on as we speak (blog). But we want to hear the voice of the people, the CF fanatics, the proud self-proclaimed geeks that truly represent what CFUnited is all about! Answer the call to action and make your voices heard! Evaluate the topics submitted and VOTE From gurus to newbies, everyone in the world and

I was visiting a major hosting provider today, and we got talking about Disaster Recovery and how it's all very well to have such a system in place, but until you actually put it into practice, how can you ever really be sure it will work. This led onto me asking "Have you ever tested your fire suppression systems?" The response - and a funny one I thought - "no, we've never started a small fire in one of our data centres to see what would happen". So, how can we therefore be sure that things such as fire suppression

I ran into a little bug in ColdFusion 9 whilst writing an article for .net magazine. Keeping it simple, if you perform two or more write operations on an image (to disk), using the same filename, ColdFusion will remove all the EXIF data stored in the image. This is listed as bug 75605, which is supposed to be fixed, but it must have slipped through the cracks somewhere. I've pinged Adobe about it, along with a reproducable case, and a workaround. I came across the bug because I was uploading an image (which writes the image to disk) and then

The hype around social media continues unabated – business, marketing, government, NFPs; everyone is getting involved. But to my mind, we’re still somewhat missing the point. Making it a part of our lives in a way that avoids the hype and adds real benefit to our own lives and the lives of others will be [...]

This afternoon I was working on a set of persistent entities called event, eventtype, eventstatus, and eventpriority. Event is the "core" entity with hooks to status, type, and priority. When everything was done I whipped up a quick test: ... [More]

There seems to be discrepancies in the various date validations used throughout ColdFusion, or at least I've found one case where it inconsistently considers a value a valid date. It's probably easier to demo what I'm talking about than to try to ex... [More]

This morning, I was looking at a tutorial on how to extend built-in Javacript objects by altering the Prototype of native Javacript classes. In doing this, you can add your own methods to Javascript String and Array instances (for example). The down side to this approach is that this affects every new and existing instance of the altered data types (all instances of a given type share a common prototype). This got me thinking about Javascript object extension in general, and I wondered, rathe ... Read More »

Is it just me or is GraniteDS just too complicated? I'm an expert using FMS Flash Media Server and I understand BlazeDS but Granite Data Services is beyond plug-n-play. First, what is the stack and why is it hard to figure out? Tide, EJB, Gravity, Po...

Nsite, LLC is looking for an experienced Programmer to design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, and implement software code (i.e., ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, HTML, and JavaScript) for a complex database driven web applications used by the Department of Defense in support of the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learn located at Quantico, VA. Requirements: Functional knowledge of Adobe Cold [...]

In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman on the rebirth of the ColdFusion platform. Evolving from its early days as a C++ product, to becoming a fully Java-based implementation for the enterprise, ColdFusion today commands a growing community of 800,000 developers. The language-become-platform is being touted [...]

I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload ...