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In The Beginning I was first introduced to ColdFusion almost three years ago when one of the programmers in SYS-CON's Web Services Department suggested we implement it in a few different places on one of our Web sites. As the department manager I said, 'Sure, sounds good...By the way, what the heck is ... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 5,696

Architecting Enterprise Level CF Apps Welcome to the first of several articles that focuses on the approach rather than the coding of ColdFusion applications. Before you flip to the next article, we encourage you to read on - this topic doesn't have to be dull...instead, it's our intent to help serious ColdFusion develo... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 6,204

Creating Subforms In the June issue of ColdFusion Developer's Journal (Vol. 1, issue 3), I hinted there might be a way to create subforms using inline frames. This article shows how - using a combination of inline frames, JavaScript, WDDX and, of course, CF. Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 8,146

A Help Engine For Web Users The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens wrote of the time period of the French Revolution: 'It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.' Or, put more sardonically, historic times are best appreciated by historians. In fact, times of great change are times of great disloca... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 5,965

Stored Procedures In Access While many experienced CF developers will spurn the notion of creating a production CF application with a back-end database in Access, there are far more developers who for one reason or another proceed to - or simply have to - do so. Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 14,338

Session Management The Hard Way Developing a data-entry interface for managing pesky lookup tables can be a laborious task for even the most seasoned CF developer. These tables usually include a few simple data fields - an identity column for use as a primary key, a text descriptor and perhaps some ancillary informat... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 15,442

Spectra And The Metadata Service Ever wonder why, when you search for something on the Internet, you normally get about a hundred thousand Web sites that are nowhere near what you're looking for? The reason is that many search engines can index only the words of a Web page, not the meaning. Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 7,018

Spectra: The New Application Standard Allaire Spectra is the new standard for application development in ColdFusion. Not only does this product provide powerful, out-of-the-box content and work flow management tools, but its seven core services constitute a powerful application framework that developers can use in many d... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 5,948

Server to Client WDDX The Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX) is an XML-based technology that allows different Web technologies to exchange data. One function of WDDX is to send ColdFusion queries to JavaScript for use on the client. This article details how to use this functionality with HTML SELECT state... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 7,325

Expect The Unexpected No one wants to write buggy code, at least no one I choose to know. Bugs are annoying, bugs are embarrassing. And bugs can cost you (and your clients) lots of time and money. Bugfree code is the ideal all developers strive for - at least should strive for - but it's a lofty goal not e... Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 8,034

Macromedia Generator Shockwave Flash is all over the Web. Its eye-catching, interactive animations have found a place on today's Web, and most Web firms use both Flash and its bigger brother on both their own and their clients' Web sites. Oct. 18, 1999  Reads: 6,057