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Optimal Development Environment I've been out of the hard-core development team dynamic for more than a year now, so I was a little hesitant when CFDJ approached me about writing this article. Nevertheless, I have traveled to various ColdFusion shops around the... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 8,291

It's Time for Teams! I'm writing this month's editorial myself, but if I wanted to stay true to the focus of the issue, I'd be writing it with a partner, or several. Collaboration is the name of the game in the world of ColdFusion, and in the magazine w... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 5,992

Ektron Turns Up The Heat If you have used any content management systems or any of the popular Web-based e-mail portals, you've probably had an opportunity to use something like eWebEditPro. The idea behind this product is to make it easy for anyo... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 6,133

Ask the Training Staff We have some more good questions to tackle this month. We'll look at Client variables, a pesky CFMAIL problem, and ways to delete Session variables. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 6,815

Why It's Wrong to Use Application.dsn in Your Templates You've probably seen the use of a variable called 'application.dsn' (or 'application.datasource') in code. Perhaps you've even been taught to use the method in a class. Maybe you've even been doing it in your own code. I'm t... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 16,451  Replies: 3

Be Extremely Graphic More ColdFusion applications are running on intranets and extranets than just about anywhere else. This is not surprising - as ColdFusion makes data access and reporting so simple it is a natural fit for applications in these envi... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 11,087  Replies: 3

CFContent With Images Many of us have used the CFCONTENT tag that comes with ColdFusion to serve up files to browsers, but very few ColdFusion developers are aware that the CFCONTENT tag can be used in conjunction with the HTML tag to serve up graphics,... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 11,227

VTML By Example In Part 1 of this series (CFDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6), I explained how to easily generate the necessary VTML code for providing Tag Inspector, Tag Help, and Tag Insight features inside CF Studio for your custom tags. (Part 1 is available... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 7,649

Disappear from the Invisible Web Data-driven sites are a great way to manage and deliver content. But at a price. You may as well kiss deep linking and extensive search-engine indexing goodbye. Here's a solution to this problem, but it's not pretty. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 7,169  Replies: 3

User-Defined Functions in CF 5.0 Before the release of ColdFusion 5.0, developers had to add user-defined functionality to their applications through custom tags. Now they have the ability to create user-defined functions. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 6,603

Tracking Software Issues Building software systems is a lengthy and complicated process that may involve anywhere from a single developer to multiple teams of developers, who may all be working in different locations.' Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 6,570

Maintaining Live Verity Collections in a Clustered Environment The task seemed monumental: 'Come up with a way to keep live Verity data indexed and accessible to multiple Web servers in a clustered environment.' The scope of the data was huge - hundreds of thousands of pieces of content - wit... Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 7,518

CFDJ News Macromedia Releases ColdFusion Server 5 (San Francisco, CA) - Macromedia, Inc., announced the availability of ColdFusion Server 5, the latest version of its Web application server. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 6,802

What's Online CFDJ Online Check in everyday for up-to-the-minute news, events, and developments in the ColdFusion industry. Visit www.sys-c on.com/coldfusionedge and be the first to know what's happening. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 9,157

A Script for Teamwork In this issue of CFDJ, the editors are looking at the subject of collaboration and ColdFusion. Jul. 11, 2001  Reads: 7,314