I first mentioned this half a year ago during my summer CFUG tour, but a few of you have asked about it recently, and so ... ColdFusion MX Enterprise features support for multiple ColdFusion instances. Although actually, that is less a ColdFusion feature and more a J2EE server feature that...
Bill Rawlinson noted this in a comment on a previous post, but I think it is blogworth enough to warrant its own post. The entire US Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District web site at http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/ is powered by ColdFusion MX (running on Windows 2000), and also uses a ColdFusion...
Need a ColdFusion based file manager? Take a look at Rick Root's CFFM at http://www.webworksllc.com/cffm/. This wonderful little utility supports file and folder creation, deletion, moving, copying, and renaming, file upload, as well as file specific options (image manipulation for image files, zip...
eWeek is running a story about an application built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide accessible and consistent information about the water level of the Mississippi River. The application is written in ColdFusion deployed on Oracle 9i. Story at...
ColdFusion Queries can be created using the QueryNew() function which takes a list of query columns (as a parameter, or by subsequent QueryAddColumn() calls). These queries are not typed, and this has created problems when using these queries (perhaps when querying queries). Blackstone solves this...
As per the description at http://www.anysoldier.com/, "Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, an Army Infantry Soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was in the Kirkuk area of Iraq when he started the idea of AnySoldier to help care for his soldiers. He agreed to distribute packages that came...
I am in beautiful San Diego today, and just finished a series of ColdFusion related meetings with various Government agencies. I love spending time with Government ColdFusion users, the range of applications being built, and the spectrum of developers and skill-sets that make up the ColdFusion...
Firaxis Games is the creator of "Sid Meier's Pirates" (Time Magazine's Coolest Video Game 2004) and other highly rated games including the Civilization series. And Firaxis' Web site at http://www.firaxis.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (CF5, it appears). Thanks to Peter Tilbrook for bringing this one...
This one has bugged me for a long time. ColdFusion allows you to build SQL statements dynamically (using variables, expressions, conditions, and more), but have you ever wanted to know exactly what that final generated SQL was? ColdFusion obviously knows what it is, and if you have debugging turned...
Arguments (parameters) passed to (for UDFs and CFC methods) may be validated using the TYPE attribute which takes a data type as a value. One important type that is missing in CFMX is XML, and we plan to fix this by supporting TYPE="xml" in Blackstone. Oh, and of course itself supports...