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As October comes around, it's time for another Macromedia DevCon, generally regarded as the largest gathering of ColdFusion developers each year, along with users of Macromedia's other technologies. The theme of this year's conference, which reflects the strategy we've watched unfold t... Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 9,194 | This column will focus on some of the ways developers have of extending the core capacities of ColdFusion. Specifically, we will cover user-defined functions (UDFs), custom tags, and ColdFusion components (CFCs). Every other month I'll select one or two resources that are freely availa... Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 9,805 | Imagine that your client, Fast Eddy's Auto World, asks you to build a data entry form for his inventory. There are several models of cars that use combinations of many options. No two use the same combination. Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 11,593 Replies: 2 | Currently there are more than 200 commercially available content management systems (CMSs). Each has strengths and weaknesses relative to the others...belying their underlying middleware platform and customer history. Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 7,769 | Most of you have heard by now that ColdFusion MX templates are compiled into Java. Some may wonder what the big deal is. Many more of you may be surprised to learn that you can precompile CFMX templates. Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 13,393 Replies: 9 | Have you ever been to a site and gotten a pop-up box telling you about a JavaScript error on the page? It can be really annoying. What's worse is that the person responsible for maintaining the site doesn't even know that the error occurred. Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 19,454 Replies: 1 | How often have you worked on a project or piece of code and thought, 'This is something that could save someone a lot of time,' or 'This is something that solves a business problem'? Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 6,531 | I was telling my son about my childhood the other day. He's 13 now and no longer willing to believe the stories I used to tell him. Gone are the days when I would recount tales of my pet dinosaur Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 7,323 | Here's the situation. You're relaxing, reading the latest issue of CFDJ, when your boss, significant other, or the voice in the back of your head asks you to write an e-mail retrieval program. This could be for an e-mail feedback system, an error alert manager, or even to handle the hu... Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 8,298 Replies: 2 | I have been writing and talking about ColdFusion components since before ColdFusion MX shipped. After I explained them in detail in two recent columns (CFDJ, Vol. 4, issues 6, 7), quite a few of you asked for practical examples of when and where they should be used. So, once again, let... Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 10,468 Replies: 1 | With Flash Remoting on the rise we're beginning to see a plethora of advanced Flash applications hit the Web. I'm not talking about silly Web site intros or loading screens, but full-blown Web applications such as shopping carts, e-mail clients, content management systems, and expense ... Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 7,600 | This installment of 'Tales from the List' focuses on SQL much more than ColdFusion. Databases and the SQL used to manipulate their data ac-count for roughly 85% of all ColdFusion application performance issues. Oct. 4, 2002 Reads: 9,255 |
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