Archive for 2008/08

Well today was interesting – I had my appointment this morning at the San Francisco Italian Consulate to apply for my citizenship. I used Google Maps street view to recognize the building before my brother, dad and I drove up to San Francisco but still managed to drive by it not paying attention. [...]

Thanks to a tip from Elliott Sprehn on the Transfer list, I installed Java 1.6 u10 RC on my laptop to see how my Model-Glue/Transfer/Coldspring application performed with the JRE ClassLoader bug fixed. I’ve gotten in the habit of simply restarting my CF instance rather than reinitialize my application because it’s been faster in [...]

Next Tuesday at 11am I will enter the Italian Consulate in San Francisco to apply to become a citizen of Italy. My brother is flying in from Florida and my Dad is coming down from Northern California to also apply. I have been working on it for several years now at a leisurely [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, there has been a fast-moving SQL Injection script targeting many ColdFusion sites around the web lately that relies on SQL queries unprotected by CFQUERYPARAM. The script kids finally got around to probing one of my sites and while my application is protected, the requests are generating lots [...]

I don’t work with SQL Server much so I thought this might save someone else some effort when trying to figure out the right combination of CFQUERYPARAM and Transact-SQL keywords. We have a search object that stores keywords and want to loop over the keywords to create a dynamic search query against our full-text [...]