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Tales from the List
That's right, there's a whole lotta shaking going on - in the IT world, that is. Macromedia's Studio MX 2004 suite of products has now begun shipping, and the reviews are in!
Enhancing Verity Search Results
Your customer says, 'I want my site search to include all of my regular site pages and my data-based items as well. When my customer clicks on the link, I want it to show the correct page.
Confirming the Namespace
isDefinedValue extends the CF built-in function isDefined by checking for the existence of a value in the variable space. isDefined checks for the existence of a variable's named space and not for a value in the named space.
Accessibility the Easy Way
Last month's article covered the laws of accessibility and the means of validating accessible Web content to Section 508 and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). However, making sure your Web site conforms to the law is not enough.
The Ten Commandments 2004
It's been about seven years since I first inscribed my '10 Commandments of ColdFusion Development' for my first ColdFusion book, and four years since they were last revised (yes, my Ten Commandments are not as omnipresent as their...
Harnessing the Magic of the <gleep> Tag
What the bleep is a 'gleep' tag? Now I know you've never heard of it, but then neither have any browsers. That's where the magic comes in.
Working in a Distributed Development Team
Think of the problems you encountered during your last project, then imagine the team spread across different floors or buildings, or even continents! The problems and pitfalls are greatly magnified to a point where development is severely hindered.
component.cfc: The Mother of All Components
Yes, that's right, components have mommies and daddies. Well, not really, but that statement isn't too far from the truth. This article explains 'component.cfc', a hidden gem in the ColdFusion Component architecture that is part of ColdFusion MX.
Unnatural Acts
Ah, television! Where else can you see so much action? Murders are routinely committed and solved, dastardly plots are hatched and foiled, and characters learn some deep life-truth - all within a single hour.
Persistence: Creating State
What is state? You may have heard the popular phrase, 'The Web is a stateless environment.' Simply put, data cannot persist across multiple page requests to the server.
CF_Defense
Every month when it comes time to write this editorial, I look around at a variety of sources for inspiration. It's not as easy writing each month as most of us on the magazine (hopefully) make it look.
CFDEBUGGER
Have you ever wanted to see what lines of code are being executed in your template? If you looked for CFTRACE to do that, you were likely disappointed.

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