I've just finished reviewing all of the ColdFusion related MAX sessions, providing comments and critique where appropriate. I've been swamped the past few months, and was quite late in getting outline and draft feedback back to presenters, but I have finally caught up, and the presenters have been...
Microsoft ASP is one of the most popular scripting languages out there, or rather, it was one of the most popular scripting languages out there. With the introduction of the Microsoft .NET platform, Microsoft is no longer developing ASP; it's investing in ASP.NET instead. ASP.NET is an entirely new...
I ran into an annoying one today. I have code that has been working for years, and recently moved lots of the core processing into a CFC. And everything kept working properly. I then started tinkering with Flash Remoting, and everything kept working properly. And then I tried invoking CFC methods...
As requested, I have posted a FlashPaper version of the "Undocumented ColdFusion MX 6.1" presentation that I have used in user group presentations. The URL is http://www.forta.com/cf/resources/flash/CFMX_61_Undocumented.swf. This presentation keeps evolving, each time I discover or am informed of...
Over the past few months I have met with over twenty user groups, briefed about a dozen members of press, visited dozens of customer sites in numerous countries, and addressed more conferences than I can recall. In all, I have had the opportunity to chat about ColdFusion with hundreds (or...
Flash now supports SOAP and Flash Remoting as ways to connect to back-end systems. From a ColdFusion perspective there is little difference, a CFC method can be invoked either way, but internally much is different. FlashORB has done a great job of comparing the two and benchmarking the results. See...
As mentioned previously, I have been actively soliciting user input as to future ColdFusion directions and features. I have received several requests for additional internet protocol tags, including (to access newsgroups), (read and perform DNS lookups), (as its name suggests, and could also return...
Windows users are familiar with .ini files, those plain text files that are really useful for storing configuration data and things like that. Java has a similar type of file, a properties file (usually with a .properties extension), and a set of APIs (rather ugly APIs, actually, in...
Which is the faster way to check whether or not a string is empty, or ? The commonly held view is that it is the latter, but, after a heated debate today on the subject of optimization, I decided to test it for myself. The result? Almost no difference at all, in fact, I had to run the test...
I opted not to installed ODBC support when I installed ColdFusion MX 6.1, and of course, now I need it. I discovered an installer that looked like it should do the trick, but it didn't, and a reinstall of CF did not seem to work either. The solution? Here it is (courtesy of Mike Nimer): 1: Locate...