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In with the New... When Robert Diamond asked me to take over his duties as editor-in-chief of ColdFusion Developer's Journal, my initial reaction was shock. Not so much because he'd asked me to do the job, but because his editorial would not be the first thing I'd see the next time I open a copy of CFDJ.... Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 12,711  Replies: 2

Web Server Load-Balancing Options There are two basic Web server load balancing options: hardware-based and software-based. The latter have been slowly disappearing from the enterprise while the former have been gaining a larger presence. Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,539

Fusebox or Mach-II? For more than seven years, Fusebox (www.fusebox.org), now in its fourth version, has been the dominant framework for building ColdFusion applications. During that time, Fusebox has evolved from a set of best practices into a mature framework capable of tackling very large jobs while re... Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 19,943  Replies: 1

Creating a Remember Me Login Many of my articles in this column have dealt with theoretical concepts and syntax of implementing those concepts in ColdFusion. In this article, I want to concentrate on the implementation steps you might take when building something. Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 24,473

Caching ColdFusion Components in Shared Memory A big challenge when building Web applications is dealing with scalability and performance. Sometimes these issues are forgotten until after the application is being used by the public and under heavy load. Performance tuning usually happens as an afterthought when all the code is alre... Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,814  Replies: 1

XSLT and ColdFusion: Whipping Your XML Data into Shape ColdFusion MX offers a simple and easy way to unleash the power of XSLT for manipulating your XML data. Here's how. From Web services to news and blog data feeds to configuration files, XML is everywhere these days. Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 18,709

Using XML to Share Performing Arts Schedules 'Don't you have it set up so you can just automatically pull our listings from our Web sites?' the e-mail asked. 'Not yet,' I typed in my response. 'But it's a great idea, and I'm working on it now.' Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 13,809

Lots to Learn at CFUN 2004 CFUN is the national ColdFusion and Web programming conference that Rockville, Maryland-based IT firm TeraTech (www.teratech.com) hosts each June in the DC area. CFUN (www.cfconf.org/cfun-04/) stands for ColdFusion User Network, and based on my trip to CFUN-04 there were plenty of peop... Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 12,743

Tales from the List For whatever reason, there has been a recent increase in posts on the CFDJ List, dealing with looping in CFML. Throughout the month CFDJ members wrote inquiring about how to loop over variable scopes and other structures, lists, Excel spreadsheet data, XML data, and more! Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 10,555

Building a Keyword Vector Space Engine in ColdFusion Do you want to extend your searching options beyond the basics? Would automated 'Related Items' functionality have clients beating a path to your door? Here's one way to go about it. Aug. 13, 2004  Reads: 33,405