ColdFusion Developers Journal

2005-2025

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2004

• 45) CFML on J2EE: Easy as 1-2-3 (Apr 2004)

  If you need to deploy your CFML on a J2EE server, here's the absolute easiest way. It's literally a copy/paste operation.

• 44) Making the Case for CFML on J2EE (Apr 2004)

  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.

• 43) CFUN-04: Who, What, When, Why? (Apr 2004)

  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.

2003

• 42) CFDEBUGGER (Nov 2003)

  Take advantage of this unique tool for tracing lines of execution in CFML, available only in BlueDragon

• 41) Setting Up Your Development Server with ColdFusion 5, MX, and BlueDragon (Sep 2003)

  Browse code in your webroot and serve it via all three CFML servers by changing the virtual directory in your URL

• 40) Browsing Within CF Studio/HomeSite+ (Aug 2003)

  A whirlwind guide to this powerful feature

• 39) The Secret Powers of Includes (Jul 2003)

  CFINCLUDE is more than just a way to "pull in code"

• 38) Getting Into HomeSite+ (June 2003)

  CF Studio Fans Listen Up!

• 37) CFMX Updaters 1-2-3 (May 2003)

  Understanding the whys and hows of updating the original CFMX release with its updaters!

• 36) Exploring Amazon Web Services with ColdFusion MX (April 2003)

  Introduces the notion of using web services in CFML to get information from a remote resource, in this case Amazon.

• 35) Flash for CFers: Getting Over the Hump (Mar 2003)

  If you've been scared off by using Flash--and the Flash IDE--as a CFML developer, this may help ease the process of trying it out.

• 34) Fun with Filters (Feb 2003)

  CFMX developers can add interesting functionality using Java Servlet filters

• 33) CFDJ: The 5th Year (Jan 2003)

  A look back over the past 5 years of the CFDJ.

2002

• 32) Precompiling CFML Templates in CFMX--Part 2 (Nov 2002)
• 31) Precompiling CFML Templates in CFMX (Oct 2002)

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• 30) CFMX Hidden Gems (Sept 2002)
• 29) New Possibilities for Session and Client Variable Handling in CFMX (August 2002)

Discusses new mechanisms that solve common problems with session and client variable handling.

• 28) New Possibility in CFMX: Server-side Redirects (June 2002)

Discusses a new feature that many developers still don't know about.

• 27) Using JSP Custom Tags in CFMX: What, Why, and How (May 2002)
• 26) Toward Better CF Server Administration--Part 2: Security (April 2002)
• 25) Unlocking Restricted Use of CFFILE, CFCONTENT, and More (Feb 2002)
• 24) Toward Better CF Server Administration--Part 1: Performance (Jan 2002)
• 23) Adding New Help Topics to Studio (Jan 2002)

2001

• 22) Validating Input with Regular Expressions: Little Known Features of CF 5 (Dec 2001)
• 21) E-testing: Debugging Your Projects (When Running the Code Isn't Sufficient) (Oct 2001)

  A smorgasbord of techniques and tools for testing your code in a number of ways.

• 20) Why It's Wrong to Use Application.dsn in Your Templates (Jul 2001)

  A polemic against a bit of a "sacred cow" to some CFML developers, and why it needs to be burned at the stake. :-)

• 19) Towards Better Error Handling--Part 4: CFTRY/CFCATCH (Jun 2001)
• 18) Who's Using ColdFusion (May 2001)
• 17) Testing Existence in Arrays (Apr 2001)

  Solving a problem that's not obvious in CFML

• 16) Database Choices for CF Programmers (Mar 2001)
• 15) Towards Better Error Handling--Part 3: Application Level Error Handling (Feb 2001)
• 14) Using Paired Custom Tags (Jan 2001)

  While introduced in CF4, many CFML developers still don't fully grasp the power of paired custom tags

2000

• 13) Towards Better Error Handling--Part 2: Site Wide Error Handling (Dec 2000)
• 12) Towards Better Error Handling--Part 1: Administrator Changes(Oct 2000)
• 11) Review of CFun2k User Group Meeting (Oct 2000)
• 10) Developing Wireless Apps with ColdFusion--Part 2 (Facing the Challenges) (Sep 2000)
• 9) Developing Wireless Apps with ColdFusion--Part 1 (Aug 2000)
• 8) Reconfiguring Remote Databases via SQL (Jul 2000)
• 7) Getting Focus(ed) -- And a Quick JavaScript Overview (Jun 2000)

  How to cause your forms to be set to enable users to begin typing without having to mouse or tab to your input field

• 6) Calling All Custom Tags -- Part 2 (May 2000)
• 5) Calling All Custom Tags -- How and why to call them different ways (Apr 2000)
• 4) Helping Yourself -- Resources for learning and getting questions answered (Mar 2000)
• 3) Hidden Gems in 4.0.1 -- What you might have missed (Feb 2000)

1999

• 2) Stored Procedures in Access? Yes indeed! (Oct 1999)
• 1) ColdFusion 4.0- More on Developer Enhancements (Apr 1999)

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