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Archive for July, 2010

Security Enhancement in CF 9.0.1

In the CF 9.0.1 list of What’s New and Changed, the last item listed in the “other enhancements” area is a small note that “CFID, CFTOKEN, and jsessionid are marked httpOnly”. This is a small but significant step in the right direction. What is httpOnly mean? Well, the OWASP website has a nice explanation. Basically [...]

ColdFusion 9 Update 1 (9.0.1) Available for Download

The new release includes (among other things): ORM support for multiple data sources Amazon S3 support Support for IIS 7 New script functions implemented as CFCs Support for BlazeDS 4 and LCDS 3 Configurable seed for password encryption  Server monitoring enhancements to handle load conditions It is also noted: “In addition, there are some enhancements [...]

Beware: Change in CF 9.0.1 CGI Scope Functionality

Pre-CF 9.0.1, the CGI scope acted funky – but maybe you never noticed. For example, if you ran: <cfdump var=”#cgi.someRandomString#” /><cfdump var=”#StructKeyExists(cgi,”someRandomString”)#”> It would result in: [empty string] YES You’ll note, the 2nd DUMP is incorrect, as that struct key does NOT exist. As far as I know, this has always been the case for [...]

Firefox 4.0 to Fully Support 64-bit

Sweet! Read more @ http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/07/09/how-to-download-official-64-bit-firefox-x64-installer-before-final-release/.

MXUnit 2.0 Released

Bill Shelton just announced this on the MXUnit Blog. Read more @ http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/07/mxunit-20-released.html.

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