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Dreamweaver MX 2004, Take 2 As many of you know from my editorial a few months back, I made the official switch from Homesite+ to Dreamweaver MX 2004 shortly after it was first released. The new product took some getting used to and the transition stretched out; it wasn't until I uninstalled Homesite+ entirely fr... Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,421  Replies: 4

CFUN-04: Who, What, When, Why? There are many excellent conferences and user groups for CFML developers, and one that consistently gets great reviews is Michael Smith's CFUN event, which will be held in the Washington, DC, area June 26-27. This preview gives you the 4-1-1 on the event. Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,234

The Art & Science of Load Testing on a Budget Load testing your applications is much like flossing your teeth or taking out the garbage: you know you should do it; you know (vaguely, perhaps) that there will be consequences if you don't do it - and yet somehow it always seems to slip to the last item on the to-do list. Until, of c... Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 12,323

Features Without Fixtures If you've ever worked on a licensed application you know how prepackaged applications rarely meet enough of the client's needs to be implemented without modification. Whether the application is intended for your own use or someone else's, there's usually a feature or two missing, keepi... Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 14,016

Adventures in Encapsulation Part III I recently gave a class in Fusebox 4 during which the issue of security came up. This issue seems to cause a good deal of trouble for programmers - so much so that when we wrote Fusebox 4 we provided some built-in abilities to help programmers with this. Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 15,198

Do You Want Coffee with That Mojibake? This is the second in a series of articles on globalizing ColdFusion MX (CFMX) applications. This article examines character encodings and CFMX, BIDI (bidirectional text), the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in application globalization (G11N), and why we should all just use Unicod... Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 22,017  Replies: 2

Making the Case for CFML on J2EE Do you really know what it means to run CFML applications on a J2EE server? How does it work, and why would you bother? There are many benefits you may never have considered. In this article, the first of a series, I'll answer these questions. Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 20,597

The DRK Treasure Trove Way back in the early Allaire days, registered ColdFusion users were given access to 'fuel packs', product add-ons (in the form of custom tags) that may or may not have become part of the core product later. In fact, tags like , , and all started life as fuel packs, and later became p... Apr. 13, 2004  Reads: 14,911  Replies: 2