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Let Your CF Voice Be Heard Another month in the world of CF has passed, and as always, it's certainly not been a dull one. This month's editorial will be devoted to a handful of important CFDJ housekeeping items before you turn the page to get into the techni... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 9,333

Tales from the List This month we're returning to our regular format of showcasing a thread from the CFDJList mail-list server. The thread we will review reminded me that there isn't always one right answer - often there are many alternatives to one ... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 9,332  Replies: 1

Database Searching with Stored Procedures It's easy to program a database search feature, and it's easy to succumb to the temptation to just slam one up as quickly as possible, especially when your manager is standing behind you whispering, 'I need this yesterday!' But as d... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 9,380  Replies: 2

Back to Basics I read somewhere that when faced with a task that takes one hour to do manually, or one hour to automate, a good programmer will choose to automate the process. As ColdFusion developers, we often face this decision when we need to ... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 15,517  Replies: 1

Real Time = Real Problem Most Web-based applications operate in real time. Add an article to a database and it shows up immediately on content pages. Update a user address and the new contact information is available immediately. Add or remove an employee ... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 13,196  Replies: 5

Macromedia's Data File Access API Architecture Unleashed Like its predecessors, Macromedia's most recent installment of the Devnet Resource Kit (DRK 3) is stocked with many excellent utilities for Flash developers. Unlike previous releases, DRK 3 aims to make the lives of ColdFusion devel... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 12,740

Getting into HomeSite+ Fans of ColdFusion Studio may lament that Macromedia no longer sells the product, but take heart. It really does continue to exist in the guise of HomeSite+, which is basically the same thing and then some. What's more - if you own ... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 17,908

Tracking Errors: How Good Is Your Code? Nobody likes errors, but the bottom line is, they're a fact of programming life. The better you are at pinpointing them, the better your code will get. Unfortunately, ColdFusion has never provided very good functionality for tra... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 9,618

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Composite Pattern As ColdFusion developers, we tend to build applications based on pages that display information and queries to retrieve information and save information. We tend to think solely of how we are going to implement the code required t... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 15,021  Replies: 1

System Thinking In several recent CFDJ articles, I've described software architecture as akin to model building. In both designing software models and building scale models, it's important that the model be internally consistent as well as suffic... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 9,550

Making the Case for CFML Many BlueDragon customers tell us they're being asked to defend their choice of CFML (ColdFusion Markup Lanuage) over JavaServer Pages (JSP). They need help making the argument that CFML and J2EE work well together, and that perha... Jun. 16, 2003  Reads: 10,391