This article describes the differences between CVS and Subversion and explains how to install Subversion and migrate an existing CVS repository. It also describes how to configure Subversion in a Windows environment, explains a basic Subversion project structure, and introduces the mai

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

The 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar will delve deep into the central workings of Flex so that the seminar delegates can integrate this timely new technology into their applications, creating powerful interactive content. And CFDJ Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith will lead one session de

Guido Bellomo has announced the release of wddxAjax v. 1.1. wddxAjax is a ColdFusion Custom Tag to enable AJAX on *.cfm templates. It was co-developed by Guido Bellomo and Stefano Vitta, of Bloggers.it. wddxAjax is fully compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

FusionReactor is a must for administrators and hosting companies who need to monitor their systems and recognize and act upon issues before they present critical danger to their runtime environments, the company says.

I've written a lot lately about the growing strength of the ColdFusion development community - shown by the onslaught of frameworks and the rapid adoption and support for these frameworks, the growing number of bloggers, new conferences and the great success of the CFUnited conference,

Enterprise Application aRchive (EAR) files are a standard and portable manner for packaging applications to be deployed on J2EE application servers, such as Adobe JRun, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. An EAR file is, in essence, just a big ZIP file with a special layout of the directo

I'm planning to make several presentations on using Adobe Flex 2 with or without Java in New York and New Jersey this year. As the saying goes, 'If you want God to laugh, tell him about your plans', so let me put it this way: this is what I believe I'm going to be doing later this year

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new skills and learn about new

Adobe today launches Flex 2, with a free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) aimed at equipping developers to build a new class of rich Internet applications with improved usability and effectiveness.

The ColdFusion team also has a few exciting updates to share with developers. Adobe has created a deep level of integration and productivity tools for Flex and ColdFusion making it easy for ColdFusion developers to get started and become productive building Flex applications, the compa

Adobe Flex 2 has been released as planned. The first question is how much. The quick answer is better than expected, and here's the breakout. Flex 2 SDK, command line compilers and Flex Data Services Express (must run on a single-processor server), Flash Player 9, which is actually a v

So often in this column I feel that I'm writing about basic concepts and using trivial examples. It's often up to you, as the reader, to figure out how to apply these concepts to your development. I thought it might be a good idea to take some space to try to bring a lot of the concept

For the past several weeks, I've been immersed in writing a large application - so immersed, in fact, that I missed writing my column for last month! This application has been particularly interesting to me because it makes such extensive use of AJAX - that combination of JavaScript, D

SYS-CON Events, Inc. (www .events.sys-con.com)annou nced today that the first event in the 'Real-World Flex'(www.flexseminar.com ) One-Day Seminar series will take place on August 14,2006, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Adobe Systems Inc. is theplatinum sponsor of this event, wi

As ColdFusion has become a leading choice for large-scale quick-to-market application development, new CF server releases have been adapted to make it possible to integrate object classes into your Web applications. Since ColdFusion MX, developers have been able to architect applicatio

Code reuse has always been an important principle in a software developer's toolbox. While this principle often applies to source code, developers have also tried to apply the same formula to Web content. By grabbing content from one Web site, the developer can reuse it in new and uniq

One of the latest crazes in Web development is AJAX. Unless you've been living in a cave for the last year, you've heard of this old, yet currently popular, technique for making HTTP requests to a server without refreshing the Web page. While claims of smaller bandwidth, faster respons

Putting support for XML processing in ColdFusion 6.0 was regarded as a major feature upgrade. With the switch to Java, ColdFusion could leverage the existing Java functions in Jakarta Commons and add support for things like Web Services (Axis). However, binding itself to Java also boun

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.

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite:

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

Web Host Industry Review is running a story about how 'minor league hockey organization the Ontario Hockey League has begun conducting its draft online through an interface resembling those used in many online fantasy sports pools.' As per the story, the application saves time and mone

Some people take the dog for a walk, other go play a round of golf. Not Christophe Coenraets. His idea of a good time is to illustrate Flex and JMS integration by extending a simple 'realtime feed' application that he built a while back! Web Developer's & Designer's Journal is proud to

Flex beta 3 is now available for download from Adobe Labs. Download new versions of Flex Builder, Flex Data Services, Charting, Flash Player, the ColdFusion/Flex connectivity bits, and the sample applications. The ColdFusion updater updated ColdFusion to 7.0.2. In addition to the Flex

In Flex 2 this all changes. A server is no longer needed to actually serve Flex requests. You may in fact want a server (Flex Data Services), but it is not actually needed. In Flex 2 you can write your code (MXML and AS) and then compile it, generating a complete SWF (in much the same

A typical Java developer knows that when you need to develop a GUI for a Java application, Swing is the tool. Eclipse SWT also has a number of followers, but the majority of people use Java Swing. For the past 10 years, it was a given that Swing development wouldn't be easy; you have t

We're being really open with the Flex 2 beta. Anyone can download the bits from the Labs site, and you are free to share the MXML/AS code you write and even deploy the Flex 2 apps that you create. Just keep in mind that in order to execute your apps, users will need to be running the F

Flex 2 beta 3 was just publicly released at http://labs.adobe.com. There are some nice changes in beta 3. I won't list them all here, but a few changes that I've been most impressed with so far are a bunch of nice enhancements to the Flex Builder IDE interface and performance and much

The first 'Real-World AJAX' event, held in New York City, featured 15 speakers in 11 sessions, including many of the the world's most renowned AJAX experts, and more than 400 delegates attended while more than 15,000 SYS-CON.TV viewers tuned into the simulcast on March 13, 2006. Backba

CFDBlogger features free setup and a low monthly fee to host blogs. Features such as image uploading, trackbacks, RSS feeds and WYSIWYG editor are included with a CFDBlogger account. 'We are pleased to offer this outstanding blog service,' said Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer R

Back in the November 2005 issue of CFDJ, we looked at how to create a live map of your Web site visitors using Google Maps and other freely available services.

We're very excited about the upcoming release of Adobe Flex 2.0, an integrated set of tools and technology enabling developers to build and deploy scalable rich Internet applications, and hope that you as developers are too.

It's not every day that you get the opportunity to pen an article about true love and technology. But in a few cases, true love and technology mix quite well.

Six months ago I was anxious to get the chance to upgrade our Web servers to Adobe ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition. During a product re-design, I realized how advantageous it would be for our customers to start using the new Flash Forms feature versus the standard HTML tables they h

I don't like browser-based WYSIWYG editors. There are a reasonably large number of them and several of the recent versions are even cross-browser-compatible with Mozilla and even some less popular browsers (although Safari continues to be problematic).