Anatomy of the Application.cfc in ColdFusion 8
With the release of ColdFusion MX 7 came the introduction of the Application.cfc ColdFusion component. This component replaced the traditional Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm ColdFusion...
View ArticleColdFusion Becomes a Teenager
Today ColdFusion moved into the next stage of its life and became a teenager, hopefully not a precocious one! Happy 13th Birthday ColdFusion. Adobe ColdFusion has had a long and illustrious life. The...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your Website from a Malicious Attack
Every seasoned developer will know that protecting your website from a hacker is a top priority, whether for your own reputation or for maintaining your company’s reputation and log-term revenue...
View ArticleSQL User-Defined Function: ListToTable
A common need in SQL is the ability to iterate over a list as if it were an array. In SQL it is not possible to declare arrays, unlike other programming languages such as ColdFusion, ActionScript and...
View ArticleUsing Ant with Eclipse
If you’re currently not using Eclipse as your development tool of choice, you certainly should be! Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development...
View ArticleLet's not Dilly-Dally: ColdFusion has its Merits
ColdFusion is 13 years old. That make makes it the daddy of the web world! It does not make it any less hip or useful than the relatively new kids on the block. Take this scenario. A company I once...
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Adobe's LiveCycle Powered by Amazon's Cloud
Adobe recently announced, in conjunction with Amazon, that they would bring LiveCycle to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). To quote Adobe: Adobe is now offering developers subscribed to the Adobe...
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Secure Your Application – PCI DSS Specifications
PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and is a worldwide security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The PCI security...
View ArticleProgrammer’s Dozen – Programming Best Practices
Take control of your code with these programming best practices from Kevlin Henney. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Kevlin used a trash can, vampires, a train wreck, whiskey and much more to make you understand...
View ArticleApache Ant Best Practices
Before Ant, building and deploying web applications required a series of scripts or manual processes, which often led to mistakes. Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes....
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