Here is a mystery for folks. I’ve updated my parsing engine for coldfusionbloggers.org.
I’m using CFHTTP now so I can check Etag type stuff. I take the result text and save it to a file to be parsed by CFFEED.
But before I do that I check to ensure it’s valid XML. Here is where it [...]

A few days ago I blogged about a code review I was doing for another client. Yesterday I found another interesting bug in their code. (It is always easier to find bugs in other people’s code.)

There are a few ways of persisting XML to a file, each with their pros and cons, that programmers may want to consider.
Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr., of O’Reilly Media, penned a post on XML persistence and ways to accomplish it. “You can do all sorts of interesting things with XML, but if you can’t persist [...]

Not many people know that ColdFusion ships with a HTTP spider that integrates with Verity. Unfortunately, this spider will only work with localhost as a server.
This means if you want to spider multiple sites, you can’t. Well, not without playing with your host headers. (More information on the Verity Spider and ColdFusion may be found [...]

When is the last time you stopped to think about the health of your feed?
Maybe it’s time to head over to the Feed Validator and ensure it’s in peek performance.

I’ve blogged before about how xmlFormat() is a bit buggy.
While it will remove most characters, including “high ascii” characters in the range of 128-255, it will gleefully ignore other high ascii characters, for example, character 8220 which is the funky Microsoft Word quote.
Unfortunately it looks like the same code used for xmlFormat is used to [...]