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Entering the World of Linux I'm writing this month's editorial from the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in a currently frozen New York City, so it's naturally got me in a 'Linux Frame of Mind.' When talking to many CFMLers at the Macromedia MAX Conference this year, I found a mixed bag of opinions about Linux and ... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 11,148

Add Localization to Your Web Site Welcome to another installment of Extending ColdFusion. In this edition, we are going to look at one of the ways you can add localization to your Web site. What do we mean by localization? Localization or L10N (L10N is an abbreviation for the 10 letters between the 'L' and 'N' in local... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 13,197

Writing Queries for Oracle vs SQL Server Have you ever written an application using one database only to have it break when you switched to a different database? How often have you decided to limit the functionality of your database by writing only basic SQL because you just weren't sure if your queries would work on a differ... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 36,249

Adventures in Encapsulation Part I I've just returned from a four-day class on Mach-II (www.mach-ii.com) that Ben Edwards and I gave to a group of developers at Macromedia in San Francisco. It was great fun to be working with so skilled a group. Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 12,967

Collaborative Filtering Collaborative filtering on the Web has existed for a long time, dating all the way back to the original incarnations of sites like CDNow and Amazon.com. Recommendation systems are a powerful tool for businesses to extract additional value from their e-commerce and customer databases. T... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 12,745

Creating Variables in CFML Welcome to CF101, a new column I'll be writing for ColdFusion Developer's Journal. This column is dedicated to all of you beginners out there, to teach you the basics of ColdFusion development. You don't need to have a prior understanding of programming, HTML, or Web development to rea... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 16,925  Replies: 1

The Proximity Principle The proximity principle holds that the best place to deal with something is as close to that something as possible. Applied to the waste industry, it yields policies that promote the management of waste as close to its point of production as possible. The idea is that transporting wast... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 9,062

Intro to Ant Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process. Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 14,219  Replies: 2

The Case Against Coding for Portability Conventional wisdom dictates that code, all code, be written with portability in mind. After all, you wouldn't want to have to revisit and rewrite code when moving between platforms or environments, would you? And while I do believe that coding for portability is a good thing in genera... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 12,766

Tales from the List ColdFusion Developer's Journal has been in print for quite a long time... in fact it has now celebrated its fifth birthday. I haven't read every article published in every issue, but I've read a lot of them. One thing I've learned over the years is that the more confident you are that ... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 8,410

ColdFusion News Macromedia has announced Macromedia Director MX 2004, the latest version of the industry-standard multimedia authoring tool. Macromedia Director has been at the forefront of multimedia development for more than a decade, and this latest version adds support for JavaScript, Flash MX 200... Feb. 25, 2004  Reads: 8,604