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Software Engineering and ColdFusion
One of the great things about ColdFusion is that it makes it so easy to put together a quality application. I've seen a lot of good work out there by people with little or no formal training. But there's only so much that ColdFusi...
Tales from the List
This installment of Tales from the List focuses on a couple of postings by long-time list member and frequent provider of expert advice, I-Lin Kuo. Someone posted to the list stating that they had a variable containing a list, and t...
Studio MX by Macromedia
Dreamweaver has been upgraded to include many features familiar to users of CF Studio, and includes other crucial Web-design applications, specifically Fireworks, Flash, and Freehand.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Java: A Training Review
By the end of the course, I had a good grasp of the various parts of the Java language, a better understanding of object-oriented programming, and a great appreciation for how powerful Java can be. J2EE, Java, EJBs, JavaB...
Building SQL Front Ends with Article Manager
Given the number of applications available for developing database front ends, it might seem strange that the most popular method of doing it is using HTML and an application server. It's become apparent, however, that the Web offer...
ODBC Escape Sequences
Within the field of computer science, competing products often implement standards differently. Database management systems (DBMSs), with their different syntaxes for SQL queries, are no exception. How can we write queries within ...
Working with Use Cases
Designing Web applications is very different from designing Web sites. Web site design typically consists of finding ways to organize information so that it is clear (hopefully) to the site visitor. An excellent book that...
Compilation and Precompilation in CFMX Templates
Last month I introduced a precompile 'batch' file that allowed you to manually compile CFMX templates, saving the penalty paid by the first user to browse a CFMX template after it was created or edited. But there will be ...
Data Entry ReFORMed
HTML-based data entry is a pain, both for developers and for end users. There's no way to sugarcoat it, HTML forms as used today are pathetic. Sure, there are new form specifications on the way, but they are not yet in use, browsers...
Ask the Training Staff
Greetings. I hope all of you who attended the DevCon last month enjoyed it, and came away with some great tips and tricks. This month's column is short, but hopefully addresses some problems that you've encountered recently...
<CFIF> Performance Measurements
It was an article by Michael Dinowitz, 'Comparisons with CFIF,' that made me reevaluate how I was writing my CFIF statements. Since the common was the slowest way to compare two strings, the table of data presented in the ...
Constantly Improving
Welcome to a visually new and improved ColdFusion Developer's Journal. You'll notice subtle changes in certain aspects of the design and layout of the magazine. We've also made a few behind-the-scenes changes to the roster of in-hou...

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