I've said this before and I think I'll be saying it for a while yet, ColdFusion is not a database server, and should not be used as one. Or put differently, if your DBMS can do the job, let it do so. Case in point: Earlier today I was giving someone a hand with an application, and was looking at...
My latest book, "Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes", is now available and shipping. This new title is modeled on my best-selling "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes", is targeted at the same audience, and follows the same format and pace of study. Checking in at a svelte 150...
A thread on cfcdev today discussed whether ColdFusion debugging should ever be activated on a production server. The bottom line is no, never turn on debugging on a production server (you should never need to debug on a live server anyway, that's what development and testing servers are for). But...
Looks like I missed the SYS-CON announcements for their "ColdFusion Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards" (press release at http://www.sys-con.com/2002/PR/02252004.cfm). My "ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit" won the "Best Book" category, and my "Advanced ColdFusion MX...
This was just brought to my attention. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFMX_JAVA/ is the address of the CFMX_JAVA Yahoo Group. Not a lot of content yet, but there are code snippets showing how people can use CFMX embedded J2EE and extended J2SE together with the help of a java reflection class.
All versions of Macromedia ColdFusion MX include a MySQL JDBC Type 4 driver. However, some users may choose to use the latest MySQL JDBC driver distributed by MySQL. This new TechNote describes how to configure ColdFusion MX to use a newer version of the driver, see...
Support for dynamic datasources was dropped on ColdFusion MX (it had been introduced in ColdFusion 5), and this has made it difficult to connect to data files without having to define a datasource. I was asked about this several times while in Japan, and promised to respond via e-mail with details...
I'm about to head to Narita to fly back to the U.S. MAX 2004 Tokyo was an incredible event, thousands of attendees (even more than at MAX in the U.S.) and two days of sessions, presentations, shop talk, and of course bars (including one at which I was hit on by a rather drunk non-English speaking...
With being on the road again I completely missed this announcement. DRK6 is out, details are at http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume6/. ColdFusion developers will like the tag (modeled on ), as well as several Internet protocol tags including the ever useful...
Last week I commented on the newly released Flash MX 2004 Wizards, and stated that I'd be posting a detailed article demonstrating their use shortly. Well, that article is now live at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/dc_wizard.html. The article will walk you through building...