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Robust CF Session Management Part 1 of 2 What can you do to make your app less vulnerable to the slings and arrows of outrageous users? And how should you keep the user informed of what's going on? (If you don't, he or she is likely to make mistakes and eventually avoid your site if the consequences of the mistakes are seriou... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 13,137

Tales from the List Welcome to the first installment of 'Tales from the List,' a monthly column devoted to the discussion threads (and their creators) on the ColdFusion Developer's Journal Mail List (CFDJList). Each installment will examine popular discussion thread(s) from the list from the previous mont... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 8,077

Ask the Training Staff Two questions I received this month made me realize just how often we overlook the power of Lists and the many List functions in CF. Many times, we look at a string or other piece of data and don't even realize that what we're looking at is actually a list. Once we realize that somethi... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 8,378

Back to Basics: When sites run into trouble, it's usually the database that's the problem, not ColdFusion Cutting ColdFusion code is fun, and therein lies ColdFusion's biggest problem. It's too easy to get carried away writing code to do things that should be happening in the database itself - or often shouldn't be happening at all. It's also just too easy to use. You can get up and runnin... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 6,679

Toward Better CF Server Administration Part 2 of 3 As an administrator, or a developer interested in how your server is run, are you getting the most out of your CF Server configuration, especially with regard to security-related settings in the Administrator? Are you fully aware of the opportunities and challenges presented by those s... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 8,369

Session States Without the Session Discussions have centered around clusters and shared sessions: How do you overcome the problem of being unable to share session variables across clustered servers? Why else would you build a sessionless site? The answers may surprise you. This article documents a technique that allows ... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 7,749

A More Thorough Debugging When an application is functioning exactly as expected, does that mean it's bug-free? Not necessarily. ColdFusion provides developers with many useful and powerful debugging techniques. If I find that part of an application isn't functioning the way I expect, I can usually use one or m... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 7,489  Replies: 1

How to Sidestep Locking We all know we should lock our shared scoped variables - that is, application, session, and server variables that can be shared between multiple ColdFusion threads. Everywhere we turn there's another article, another e-mail, and another best practices - all of which entail locking. Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 8,904  Replies: 2

In Praise of Simple Tools My first impressions of going to a professional baseball game are still vivid. I was 11 years old and I went to see the greatest team in the world - the New York Yankees - play in Yankee Stadium. I grew up listening to my brothers tell tales of watching Mickey Mantle, the head of the Y... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 6,808

Going North! On May 3 I'll be packing my bags and trekking north from New York to Toronto to participate in CF North, the only Canadian developer's conference for ColdFusion. A large chunk of the ColdFusion world will be heading up that way with me, both those in the area and those elsewhere lookin... Apr. 8, 2002  Reads: 6,796  Replies: 2