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'But It's Free!' There was once a time,
not that long ago, when I
seemed to be spending a
significant portion of my
life explaining why
ColdFusion was indeed
worthy of consideration
even though other
products were free. Then
I stopped hearing that
... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 15,830 Replies: 23 | Extending ColdFusion Welcome to another
installment of Extending
ColdFusion. This month
I'm going to talk about a
UDF (user-defined
function) that will help
deal with users. Users
are wonderful. Without
people visiting your
site, your Web page may
as ... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 9,506 | All About Arrays With all of the
excitement over the new
features of ColdFusion
MX, it's easy to skip
over some of the basics
of ColdFusion. In
training developers, I
find that the subject of
arrays causes a good deal
of confusion - so much ... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 8,995 Replies: 2 | BlueDragon:Another Option
for CF Developers Imagine going to buy a
new car. You are down to
specifying the options
for the vehicle and the
salesman says, 'You can
have it in any color as
long as it's black.' If
black is your favorite
color that's great; but
if it's not, then ... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 8,212 Replies: 1 | Creating and Accessing
Collection Files In computer terms,
objects are abstracts of
real-world entities that
are all around us in
everyday life. Examples
of such objects could be
people, organizations,
cars, animals, or even
less tangible entities
such as math or time. Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 6,329 | Serving Word ColdFusion developers
often include in their
applications the
functionality to serve up
dynamic Microsoft Office
documents. The most
common technique for
doing this is through
automation - the process
of controlling one
applicatio... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 39,083 Replies: 4 | DevCon 2002 Another ColdFusion
Developers Conference has
officially come and gone.
All in all, this year's
conference, held October
27-30 in Orlando,
Florida, was a huge
success, both in terms of
attendance (well over
2,000) and content. I'll
... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 9,851 | DevCon 2002:A Positive
Indicator for CF The ColdFusion world
traveled down to Disney
World this October -
without even having to
win a major sporting
event first. The occasion
was Macromedia DevCon
2002 - the world's
largest gathering of all
things Macromedia - which
to... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 9,841 Replies: 2 | Ask the Training Staff Can you believe it's
December already? 2002
was certainly a year of
big changes for many
CFers as Macromedia
released the new MX
products. Many of us
scrambled to come up to
speed on the new changes
in CFMX. However, the
fundament... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 9,193 | Flash Remoting with
Macromedia's DesDev Feed I wanted to write an
article that would be
useful to the developer
community. Since Flash is
gaining ground as a
powerful development
tool, this article will
focus on using Flash to
create a rich UI hooked
up to a ColdFusion
compo... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 8,425 | Super Wizards Creating wizards to
collect well-defined data
is pretty
straightforward. But
sometimes we're
confronted with the task
of creating a set of
forms to collect data
where the final structure
of that data is unknown
or inconsistent. He... Nov. 19, 2002 Reads: 9,483 |
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