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The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports reading spreadsheets into array
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The Spreadsheet CFML library now has improved support for creating CSV from your data
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The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports fast, memory efficient CSV file processing
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Vertically collapsing accordion UI components are simple to implement these days using native HTML.
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Database client Navicat doesn't seem to recognize MariaDB servers hosted on Azure.
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The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports adding validation drop-downs to cells programmatically.
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The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports reading large spreadsheets via streaming.
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Out of the box, some Linux builds are missing components needed to generate spreadsheets.
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The latest version of Spreadsheet CFML allows you to chain method calls for simpler, more expressive code.
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The library has long supported Adobe ColdFusion but the new renamed version makes clear it supports ACF as well as Lucee
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Lucee allows you to simplifiy mapping definitions in Application.cfc by using relative paths. But sticking to absolute paths may be more reliable.
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Lucee currently has no built-in methods for setting file permissions on Windows, but it can be done by making a few java calls
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Column names in CFML query objects can pose problems in certain cases, especially with Adobe ColdFusion. Here's a UDF allowing them to be safely renamed....
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If the physical path of a mapping is missing when an application starts, an incorrect value will be cached for the life of the server. Here's how to force Lucee to re-evaluate mapping paths without a restart....
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JavaLoader is no longer the only way to load third-party java libraries in Lucee dynamically and without fear of class clashes.
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Creating large spreadsheets can be resource intensive and lead to timeouts or out-of-memory errors. POI's "streaming XML" (SXSSF) format can address this problem....
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Lucee 5 makes it really easy to execute loop iterations in parallel. But not all loop operations will benefit, and the approach needs to be applied with care....
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Using multipart forms isn't the only, or necessarily the best way of uploading files, especially when doing so via a REST API.
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A basic introduction to querying an Elasticsearch index using Lucee CFML
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A basic introduction to setting up an Elasticsearch index using Lucee CFML
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Query-of-Query seems useful because the SQL syntax is familiar. But it's known to be slow, and there are better alternatives.
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How to take an array of CFML objects and sort it by a specific property of the object
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In Lucee 5 you can directly pass an array of values as a SQL query parameter
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