( Page 1 of 8 ) Most of the core program of Dreamweaver is built using the same API provided to developers for building extensions, making it easier to find the functionality you need to start developing extensions. Read in this chapter about the advantages of the Macromedia Extension Manager, see the popular Yaromat Check Form extension, and the Massimocorner...   Read Article.

Jim Schley Principal Engineer Macromedia, Inc. As part of its application framework, Macromedia Spectra provides a set of robust security underpinnings that developers can leverage. This provides the ability to securely control user access and entitlements to the Web site. Additionally, authentication services allow for the ability to personalize the...   Read Article.

Ever since the release of the WAP 1.0 specification in the Spring of 1998, the Web development community quickly has embraced the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standard as a means for connecting wireless devices to their Web applications. As the WAP development grows, questions filter in to Allaire's DevCenter ( http://www.allaire.com/developer...   Read Article.

by Robert Crooks Allaire Educational Services In my last article on Allaire Spectra we looked at how to create object types and content objects, and how to display them on a page by direct invocation of the object. This time we will look at how to create pages and content object containers. When you invoke objects directly, it isn't obvious what Spectra...   Read Article.

By Jeremy Allaire Editor's Note: This is the first in a four-part article series to be published weekly. Distributed Web Applications Paralleling the release of ColdFusion 4.0 is a sea change in the overall adoption of the Web platform. Increasingly, Web clients and Web application servers are central to the information infrastructure running the Internet,...   Read Article.

Jim Schley Principal Technical Support Engineer Spectra Product Support Allaire Corporation Introduction ColdFusion Server Professional and Enterprise editions include the Advanced Security feature set to provide a scalable, granular security framework for building and deploying your ColdFusion applications. The many uses of this feature set run the...   Read Article.

by Robert Crooks I am going to assume that if you're reading this, you are probably a ColdFusion developer. You have heard a lot about Spectra, and now you have installed it, run the configuration wizard, and are looking at your shiny new Webtop. And maybe scratching your head and wondering, quot;Now what do I do with this?quot; Over the past months,...   Read Article.

( Page 1 of 3 ) The author explains how to upload documents using the CFFILE tag in ColdFusion. He covers making a form that has an infinite number of fields, using CFLOOP. He starts with getting basic functionality, then moves on to the quot;fun stuffquot; -- multiple file upload. Introduction If you are designing any sort of web site, at some point...   Read Article.

By: Rich Ragan Syntegra Introduction Best practices development for ColdFusion and Allaire Spectra sites employs the use of separate servers for development, staging, and production. You develop on a development server with a dedicated database, allowing the development team to produce new versions of the Web site and associated Allaire Spectra objects...   Read Article.

by Dave Gruber Senior Product Manager Allaire Corp. Web site availability translates into being open for business. While your local bank can get away with closing before six in the evening, your Web application must be open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks per year. There is no margin for mistakes. ClusterCATS, Allaire's...   Read Article.

Allaire Tech Note By: Marjorie Golden, Allaire Documentation Group Abstract You build structured exception handling into your applications so that, when an exception occurs, you can perform procedures based on the presence of an exception rather than just throwing an error and halting the application. For example, you may want to program a page so that...   Read Article.

Frank DeRienzo, MBA, MCSE Principal Technical Support Engineer Macromedia, Inc. This article outlines the current status of Macromedia Enterprise Servers (MES) in relation to each of the prominent hardware load-balancing devices (HLD). It offers an examination of the current employment of HLDs by Macromedia customers and provides pointers to relevant...   Read Article.

by Cameron Siguenza, Catouzer, Inc. AppFrameworks are central to your Intranet strategy: Early adoption of a robust corporate wide Intranet Application Framework (AppFramework) is cost effective and time - saving. By providing a foundation of necessary services, it allows subsequent development of Intranet applications that concentrate on solving business...   Read Article.

By Malcolm Gin Security Response Team Coordinator Macromedia, Inc. Secure Web application design is not product-specific: it is helpful in securely designing and implementing any Web application, regardless of the platform. This article, part of a series of security-related columns for the Allaire DevCenter, is primarily intended for developers and...   Read Article.

By Malcolm Gin Product Security Team Manager Allaire Corp. Secure web application design is not product-specific: it is helpful in securely designing and implementing any Web application, regardless of the platform. This article, part of a series of security-related columns for the Allaire DevCenter, is primarily intended for developers and application...   Read Article.

What do Internet technologies really mean to a law firm? Huge opportunities for firms that focus on adding value to the client relationship. Summary of Part 1: This article analyzes the firm's experience in two parts. The first half discusses the path the firm took, beginning with its first database-driven intranet application in 1995, and how these...   Read Article.

By: Hal Lichtin Senior Technical Writer Macromedia Abstract CFML applications use the cfldap tag to access and manage LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories. This article provides information on how to use this tag to view, query, and update LDAP directories. This article teaches you how to query and update an LDAP database. It does...   Read Article.

By: Frank De Rienzo Engineer Macromedia Among the many features provided by Macromedia's Web server clustering solution, ClusterCATS provides a feature called session-awareness. Session-awareness ensures that when a session begins on a particular clustered Web server, it will remain on that server until it is complete. ClusterCATS load balancing...   Read Article.

By Malcolm Gin Security Response Team Coordinator Macromedia This topic is not product-specific: it is helpful in securely implementing any Web application environment, regardless of the platform. This article, part of a series of security-related columns for the Developers Center, is primarily intended for server administrators and security-minded...   Read Article.

Allaire Tech Note By: Anne Sanstrom, Allaire Documentation Group Abstract Transforming XML data to application data via WDDX is a two step process: Transform XML to WDDX using a style sheet (Extensible Stylesheet Language) with XSL Transformations (XSLT). Use the CFWDDX tag to handle the transformed data. This tech note provides an explanation and example...   Read Article.