Vol. 8 Iss: 2 Read Back Issues

AJAX Custom Error Handling: Enhancing the Interactive User Experience AJAX has become an increasingly popular tool to develop RIAs. With AJAX, as with many new technologies, developers often overlook core application issues such as error handling. While many current AJAX frameworks come with ways to handle errors, the built-in error-handling methods migh... Mar. 19, 2006  Reads: 27,053  Replies: 6

Easy Flash Dashboards Dashboards are user interfaces that organize and present information intuitively, usually with graphical elements. The information is often aggregated from several sources (databases, operational metrics, log files, etc.) and summarized. They are often used by decision or policy makers... Mar. 15, 2006  Reads: 13,583  Replies: 1

Completing The Real Estate Sample Application In Part 1 of this tutorial (CFDJ, Vol.7, issue 12), you built a search interface for the Real Estate sample application. In Part 2, you'll learn how to populate a form by binding the fields to a datagrid, and then edit, add, and remove records from the database. You will add functional... Mar. 14, 2006  Reads: 19,392

2005 CFDJ Readers' Choice Awards BEST BOOK - Winner: ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit. BY BEN FORTA, NATE WEISS, LEON CHALNICK, ANGELA C. BURAGLIA (MACROMEDIA PRESS) Mar. 13, 2006  Reads: 11,401

ColdFusion Feature: Introducing objectBreeze One complaint I have heard from many developers being introduced to object-oriented programming (OOP, OO) is that it is more work than it's worth. Setting up your objects, DAOs, gateways, etc., is a lot of coding that, until you have realized the power of OO, probably does seem like qu... Mar. 12, 2006  Reads: 18,391  Replies: 2

Mixins In the last two installments of 'Foundations,' we looked at the issue of static v dynamic typing in ColdFusion and I argued that treating ColdFusion as a statically typed language led to disappointment and defeat. In this issue let's explore some of the possibilities available when we ... Mar. 11, 2006  Reads: 17,165