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ColdFusion MX 7 has some exciting new functionality but the most important and revolutionary of these new features, hands down, is the event gateway. Event gateways are to application server environments what the CFQUERY tag was to database interaction.
I have been developing Web applications for years, and have been using random JavaScript snippets gleaned from the Web to test a user's browser and configured properties. Since this script would be run client side, it required the user to have JavaScript enabled and didn't always work ...
Last month, we took a long look at strong typing. We saw that while strong typing offers many benefits in a language such as Java, trying to attach strong typing to ColdFusion produces really difficult problems. And last month, due to my 'in' connections, we were even able to briefly i...
With the release of Macromedia ColdFusion 7 and the arrival of Flash Forms, developers were presented with an alternative to HTML forms that offered them additional functionality, such as full-featured controls not available in HTML and built-in validation.
It is likely that at some point in your development career you had to deal with sensitive data. It might have been credit card numbers in an e-commerce site, or an employee identification number on an intranet. Perhaps you were setting up a security scheme and wanted to protect the pas...
Back when I had some free time, I started working on my own code generator, partly because other code generators create code slightly different from my preferences and partly for the challenge.
As someone who stands in front of audiences and evangelizes ColdFusion, often times I not only find myself preaching to the choir, but I sometimes find myself defending the product to misinformed or disheartened individuals. In the role of developer I, and many of our readers, find the...
Is JavaScript the Essence of AJAX? Some people will claim that they can provide you with AJAX functionality without writing a single line of JavaScript; I disagree.
'2005 has been one of the most significant years in history for ColdFusion developers and Web developers in general,' writes CFDJ Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith. '2006 looks to be a very promising year as well, between the impending release of Flex 2, the beginning of seeing what Adobe ...


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