May 13, 2010
How to Disable Robust Exception Information on Railo
As you know one of the first things you should do on a production ColdFusion server is disable robust exception information (this includes things like source code, and file path disclosures in error messages), in the ColdFusion Administrator.
April 07, 2008
Try Catch for SQLServer T-SQL
Error handling in SQL Server T-SQL scripts is not always the most graceful thing to deal with. With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 you can now use TRY / CATCH statements.
November 16, 2007
Spelling Strikes Again
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out why I kept getting this error:"Element CACHE is undefined in APPPLICATION."
My first thought was that somehow the CACHE variable was being deleted from the application structure, somewhere in the code.
January 09, 2006
Error Jargon
While working today I had to write an error message that a user would see if their session had timed out. I was tempted to write something like:Sorry your session has expired please login again.
December 10, 2005
Google says disable your firewall
When using GMail I sometimes get the following error message:Arrgh! The page has been corrupted. If you are running security or firewall software, you may have to disable it
This is a bad error message for a number of reasons.
May 23, 2005
Bad Error Message
I recently did this:<cfoutput query="#queryName#"> ... </cfoutput>
Can you spot the error?
I think that is probably a very common mistake - here's the error message you get in ColdFusion MX 6.





