We’ve been hard at work the last few weeks on making real, meaningful ground on CFPAYMENT, the open source ColdFusion payment processing library that generalizes many different gateways into a single, pluggable API. In the run-up to 1.0, I wanted to share some snippets to get you excited about using cfpayment for your next [...]

I have a need for an abstracted payment processing API and based on a thread on the CFGURU list, it’s obvious other people do too. A few weeks ago, I created a project called CFMERCHANT but found the name was taken so today it has been renamed to CFPAYMENT. You can see the [...]

Every morning the same thing in my inbox:
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RSESSION is a database-backed session management system I built for ColdFusion 4.5 when there was no support for failover and serious issues with locking. It’s been six years since its last release. Last year, Jason Baker provided a CFC-based implementation which I have rolled into the package. I’m releasing this for completeness [...]

I’m preparing to migrate my application to a framework like Model-Glue. Because I have 70 tables and a large API already, I’m afraid of the cutting and pasting required to migrate my code to a Bean/DAO/Gateway structure. Brian Rinaldi’s Illudium PU-36 Code Generator would solve my problem except it didn’t support Postgres 8.x [...]

I have a big report that I’m generating using CFDOCUMENT. It replicates a paper form by using a background image of the original form (in PNG format) and overlaying data from a database on top of it, absolutely positioned using CSS.
I have experienced a number of image scaling issues trying to use CSS background [...]

I released a version of CF_AveryRTF, the Avery label generating code for ColdFusion. This package can generate almost any Avery label in existence from any data you can supply it. It includes tag editors for ColdFusion Studio and is very easy to use out of the box. The exciting news is that [...]