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For the most part, I try to avoid XML. I almost always go towards using JSON – both as a consumer and a producer. That being said, probably the only thing I find cool about XML is XPath and XSLT. I haven’t used XSLT much, but XPath can be a real useful tool. It allows you to perform queries against XML data (something you can’t do with JSON as far as I know). In ColdFusion Zeus, we’ve upgraded both XSLT and Xpath to...

Join Ray Camden on the 10th of January in the first Adobe ColdFusion e-seminar for this year as he talks about RIAForge.org, an open source hosting site built entirely using ColdFusion. To register, click here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1921298&loc=en_us Did you know that the server side for Adobe TV is built using ColdFusion? Join James Brown on the 12th of January to understand how ColdFusion...

Hey, it’s the holidays, so why not share one more quick ColdFusion Zeus update? This is another little feature that literally became available two days ago. If you’ve ever needed to dynamically invoke a CFC method, you know that’s simply enough using cfinvoke. So for example: <cfset s = new some()><cfset dynmeth = "test"><cfinvoke component="#s#" method="#dynmeth#"...

Ok, I know I did a Zeus POTW earlier this week, but I had to share this little gem. This is another small thing – a simple function – and something that’s been possible via a CFLib UDF for years. That being said – when I saw this show up in the latest Zeus build today, I had to share. If you’ve ever needed to format a date and a time, you know that it requires two calls,...

One of the new language additions to ColdFusion Zeus is the ability to get the current callstack. If that sounds Greek to you, it’s simply the ability for a function to know who call it, who called that guy, and so on. It sounds confusing, but a few quick examples will help. In our first example, I’ve got a call to a UDF that calls another UDF. That UDF runs one of the two new functions introduced in this blog post,...

An important security hot-fix is released today for ColdFusion 9.0.1 and earlier. Here is the link to the security bulletin. This hot-fix addresses Cross site scripting (XSS) issues for cfform tag and RDS.