ADS BY GOOGLE

Vol. 8 Iss: 4

Read Back Issues

Developers are no different, yet I see 'improv developing' all the time. A project manager will just describe what's needed - the outlines of a plot - and let the developers work it out. The results are often what you'd see with a movie. However, designing an application with UML can a...
Using Cold Fusion 7.01 and MS SQL Server technologies, the Riley Children's Foundation developed a Web services system (EFT Payment Management System - EPMS) that efficiently processes thousands of credit card pledge payments each month. The system pushes large volumes of credit card p...
When the March 2006 issue of CFDJ arrived, I had just begun working on the maintenance interfaces for the support tables of a new system. There are many of these tables, and implementing the associated maintenance routines looked set to consume a lot of time.
Let me begin by saying that I don't consider myself a ColdFusion expert. In fact, I didn't even write my first ColdFusion application until 2004. Nevertheless, ColdFusion MX 7 still has made me a 'hero' (as Simon would put it) at the office, and this is how it happened.
Most ColdFusion applications that require users to be authenticated follow the pattern laid out in the official ColdFusion documentation and in the ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide.
Last month I announced a CFDJ essay writing contest; the topic for the essays was 'How ColdFusion MX 7 made me a hero in the office.' I received many great entries and thank each of you for your submissions.
A new project just landed on my desk. This is not a maintenance project; it's brand new, start from scratch, development. The client asked me to build a site in ColdFusion 5. It's my fourth project in the past year that's based on a legacy version of CF. I could have saved the client b...


SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS

MORE TOP COLDFUSION STORIES
ADS BY GOOGLE