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ColdFusion CFMX - A First Look It finally happened: the next-generation ColdFusion (previously code-named Neo) is in public beta, and is scheduled for a mid-2002 release. We (Macromedia and premerger Allaire) have been talking about this product for a long time, and we demonstrated it first publicly at DevCon 2001 i... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 7,579  Replies: 4

Using MS-SQL Stored Procedures with ColdFusion My three-part article on stored procedures (CFDJ, Vol. 3, issues 10, 12, Vol. 4, issue 2) has mushroomed into four, but since I'm sure most of you write perfect code the first time… May. 2, 2002  Reads: 15,765

Tales from the List The CFDJList discussion thread we'll examine this month began with a post by list subscriber Helen Warren. Helen's e-mail described one of her daily on-the-job tasks of parsing a pipe-delimited text file containing approximately 30,000 records (about companies) and either inserting or ... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 9,820

Click Portal Server/eWorkspace Server from Intrafinity A portal server can be a great addition to the operation of a company and a big plus for commercial Web sites. For one, it can allow employees to access everything through one main page, from the local weather to their Outlook boxes and calendars. May. 2, 2002  Reads: 6,748

Ask the Training Staff This month we have three questions to consider. I like them all because they're very practical and applicable to many kinds of applications. I particularly like the third question about encryption methods because it gives me an opportunity to cover two undocumented ColdFusion functions... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 8,195

Robust CF Session Management This is the second part of a two-article series about how to use ColdFusion to solve some common session management problems in Web applications. May. 2, 2002  Reads: 11,103

Developing a WAP Based E-mail Interface This article is about developing an application for wireless devices with WAP support. For this I've chosen to implement a WAP-based e-mail client. On the Web, using HTML, this is quickly done with ColdFusion. This should also be true for WAP, I thought. Whether or not it turns out to ... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 10,111

Using JSP Custom Tags in CFMX CFMX, the new release of ColdFusion, will allow us to use JSP custom tags within our ColdFusion programs. Some may say, 'So what?' In this article I hope to show you why it's definitely worth looking into this new possibility. May. 2, 2002  Reads: 14,416  Replies: 4

Query Custom Tags in ColdFusion What's the one element almost all ColdFusion-based applications rely on? A database. Utilizing a database is one of the most fundamental and important aspects of writing ColdFusion applications. If you're still embedding your queries inside ColdFusion templates, or you don't have a sta... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 6,741  Replies: 2

Handling Recursion Recursion is a wonderfully geeky word that comes from the Latin word recursio, meaning 'to run back.' A recursive procedure (or function, or subroutine) is a procedure that calls itself to do part of the work. The ancients showed the concept of recursion as a snake eating itself. May. 2, 2002  Reads: 8,392

CFMX is the Word... As a jaded computer user and developer, it's hard to excite me with a simple new release. As a magazine editor, with products and demos flying across my desk, it becomes even harder. I've seen many products and releases come and go over the past few years, and it's been a very interest... May. 2, 2002  Reads: 6,800