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How I Became a Hero at the Office

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:30:00 EDT

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the enterprise applications that I developed using the ColdFusion MX 7.1 product suite. Currently I am the only ColdFusion developer on contract at the Ft. Stewart Department of Information Management (DOIM). Ft. Stewart, the largest Army base east of the Mississippi River, is home to the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized).

How ColdFusion MX 7 Made Me A Hero

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

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 payment requests to a third-party credit vendor and, based on credit card payment results, automatically creates pledge payment batches in Advance. The system provides a comprehensive dashboard control panel for launching and monitoring payment processes, and it provides several utilities for managing individual payment change situations (e.g., pledge payoffs and pledge withdrawals).

How ColdFusion MX 7 Made Me a "Hero" at the Office...

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EDT

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.