Ben Forta

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June 4, 2007

IPv6 Debugging Gotcha

I was trying to use the ColdFusion 8 Ajax debugger and could not get it to pop up, despite having that option enabled and my IP address (127.0.0.1) in the debug IP address list. Eventually I discovered (by mistake) that if I used "127.0.0.1" in the URL then debugging worked, but if I used...

June 3, 2007

ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 4: Partial Page Updates

Ajax type applications allow developers to update parts of a web page without needing to refresh the entire page. Click on a link and another area of the screen is updated, click a toggle arrow to expand and collapse an inline detail box, submit a form and receive confirmation without updating the...

May 30, 2007

Server Side Printing In ColdFusion 8

This one was not discussed during the usergroup tour, and I have not seen anyone mention it since we released the CF8 public beta, so ... If you've ever needed server-side printing under programmatic control, ColdFusion 8 introduces a new tag. prints PDF files (including those created using , and )...

May 30, 2007

ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 3: Live Data Grids

The data grid is critical to all sorts of development on all sorts of platforms and in all sorts of languages. ColdFusion has supported data grids since ColdFusion 2 - first a Java applet, then a Flash control, and in ColdFusion 8 we've added an HTML data grid that can be pre-populated with data,...

May 30, 2007

ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 2: Related Selects

Many of us have built related select controls, forms with two (or more) drop down controls, where making a change in one control causes the available selections in the related control to change. For example, selecting a category in one control displays category products in a related control, or...

May 30, 2007

ColdFusion Ajax Tutorial 1: Auto-Suggest

I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that displays suggestions...

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