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The name on everyone's lips these days is Blackstone, the current code name for the next release of ColdFusion, which is coming in early 2005. Look for beta testing to start later in 2004, with info on Macromedia's site when that becomes available. Folks around the country have been ge... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 13,008 | This month, rather than focusing on a more advanced or more obscure task, I'm going to talk about a task which I consider more fundamental - dynamic form variable names and their retrieval on the action page. It seems that not a month goes by without a post to the CFDJ List (or other k... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 11,458 | Using JDBC metadata, it is now possible to analyze databases and automate database tasks with ColdFusion MX in ways that were problematic or at best difficult in the past. Although Java can be rather intimidating, you don't need to be a Java expert (or a database expert) to use these t... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 20,452 Replies: 4 | Hopefully by now you've heard all about Flex, the most recent addition to the Macromedia server product family. Hot on the tail of its release, Macromedia Training has released 'Fast Track to Flex,' a new course that introduces developers to developing rich Internet applications (RIAs)... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 14,475 Replies: 3 | I've been developing ColdFusion applications since the early days of version 1.5. While a lot has changed for the better with the product since then, not a lot has changed - unfortunately - in terms of the lousy quality of the CFML code that I'm often asked to review or fix. Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 26,045 Replies: 4 | If you missed this year's CFUN conference (June 26-27), you missed a lot. In addition to the great time spent meeting and talking with other ColdFusion programmers, Ben Forta gave a keynote demo of the next version of ColdFusion, code-named 'Blackstone'. Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 22,114 Replies: 3 | Developers each have their own approach to development. You may not know it, but you have one too. Having a set methodology allows you to sit back down at a project somewhere down the line and know what is going on immediately. Maintenance of the application is more cost effective. Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 17,523 | In my last column we looked at using ColdFusion Components to abstract database access, essentially divorcing presentation code from anything database specific. As you will recall, the benefit of this was that when a database change occurred (a column being renamed, for example), prese... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 16,762 | Here's how to put your knowledge of HTML to work by creating free PDFs with FOP (Formatting Objects Processor). In the May issue of CFDJ, I covered the basics of utilizing FOP from Apache to dynamically create free PDFs in your ColdFusion application. If you enjoyed that article you wi... Jul. 14, 2004 Reads: 16,123 Replies: 2 |
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