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The Power of Antipatterns It seems that lately, you
can't pick up a book or
magazine without hearing
about design patterns. If
you're new to the idea of
design patterns, they're
simply time-tested
solutions to common
problems. Design patterns
began with the ... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 10,436 | Managing Stale Updates I receive lots of e-mail
from lots of ColdFusion
developers, and make
every effort to respond
to each and every one of
them. Knowing the
problems that ColdFusion
developers are attempting
to solve helps me know
what topics to write ... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 11,550 Replies: 2 | Use the JavaMail API to
Build an IMAP Custom Tag Don't reinvent the
wheel.' We've all heard,
and perhaps uttered, this
maxim many times during
our programming careers.
ColdFusion MX has
introduced new features
to help CF developers
avoid reinventing the
wheel, including
tag-base... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 11,347 Replies: 4 | CFMX Updaters 1-2-3 Is your CFMX server
running with the latest
set of fixes? Macromedia
now uses 'Updaters' as a
means to apply patches
and extensions. There
have been three so far.
Are you running the
latest, or any at all?
How would you know? And
... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 14,653 Replies: 2 | Dynamic Client-Side Input
Validation Using JavaScript to
perform client-side input
validation can be simple.
However, the task can
become more complicated
when the set of inputs
changes or increases in
number, the rules change,
or the validation depends
on other inputs... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 14,957 Replies: 1 | Breathing Life into a
Time-Tested Curriculum I recently reviewed
Macromedia's new
'Developing Rich Internet
Applications' (CFDJ, Vol.
5, issue 2) course to
make developers
interested in adding
Flash to their arsenal
aware of this terrific
new offering from
Macromedia Training. May. 1, 2003 Reads: 11,482 | Bring the Rich Internet
Experience to Your
Desktop Using
Screenweaver MX It's a week before your
new ColdFusion
application is set to go
live, and your boss
saunters in and asks, 'If
the client's browser is
closed, and they aren't
in their e-mail client,
how will we notify them
of new changes?' Of
cour... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 8,681 Replies: 3 | Teamstudio Screensurfer Every developer will at
some point have to
integrate his or her work
with a legacy system
running on a mainframe
platform. These projects
tend to be both painful
and challenging due in no
small part to the limited
information- shari... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 9,653 | Design Patterns in
ColdFusion: Strategy
Pattern - Part 3 of a
Series For the past couple of
issues we have been
getting to know how other
languages use
object-oriented design
patterns and how those
patterns can be
implemented in ColdFusion
MX. We jumped right into
the Template Method and
Iterator p... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 9,458 | Tales from the List In March, Macromedia
created quite a stir in
the community by
releasing a completely
new version of their Web
site
(www.macromedia.com).
This beta version of the
site reflected the
Macromedia vision of the
way Flash can be used
... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 8,711 | Speed! One of the topics that
comes up most often when
talking with CF
developers about
ColdFusion is
performance. Recently, I
assisted two CF developer
friends with some site
speed problems that they
were having. One of them
is a beginn... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 10,054 Replies: 1 | Web Services Edge 2003
East International Web
Services Conference &
Expo When SYS-CON Media's
sister company, SYS-CON
Events, began preparing
last year for this
spring's 'Web Services
Edge' Conference & Expo,
one consideration was
paramount: every effort
in the nine-month
preparation cycle should
be ge... May. 1, 2003 Reads: 10,140 |
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