Bryan LaPlante President Network Web Applications Inc. www.netwebapps.com You just downloaded a tag from the Developers Exchange and it works great solving all of your problems but one -- how to remember what attributes the tag is supposed to take. You say to yourself, quot;I wish the author would have written one of those tag editors for their custom...   Read Article.

By Jeff Bouley Consultant Introduction It is extremely unlikely that the code you write today will stay the same forever. Even if you will rework the code, six-month-old code can look like a foreign language. You can avoid many of the headaches, late nights, and caffeine overload associated with updating code by simply following a few guidelines. This...   Read Article.

Frank DeRienzo, MBA, MCSE Principal Technical Support Engineer Macromedia, Inc. Many customers are using Network Address Translation (NAT) on their firewall either as a security precaution or as a means of conserving pubic IP addresses. NAT segregates internal and external resources and facilitates extra control and monitoring of Web traffic. If you're...   Read Article.

by Jon Block 15 Aug 2002 Jon Block recently helped implement the Lycos College free scholarship search engine and was an invited member of the Macromedia CFMX Customer Advisory board. When he's not coding up the Web apps of Y2M Networks , he can be found playing Super Chexx bubble hockey around downtown Boston. Page 1 About two years ago, I was at...   Read Article.

By: Kristi Jabbour, Technical Writer, Dream Tools and Dan Hulse, Project Lead, HomeSite Ramp;D Macromedia In a previous DevCenter News article, An XHTML-Aware Editor , Amy Cowen described how coders can use built-in customization settings and features to produce cleaner, more XHTML-aware code. Now, with the new version of HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio,...   Read Article.

Frank DeRienzo, MBA, MCSE Principal Technical Support Engineer Macromedia, Inc. Alteon's ACEdirector switch is rich with capabilities. This article sorts through the vast variety of possible switch configurations and defines setup parameters best suited to the needs of most Macromedia enterprise server customers. It describes a basic procedure resulting...   Read Article.

By Ray Camden Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer Macromedia, Inc. Click here to download the article and code. If you've ever had to deal with dynamic Web pages, you know that sometimes the results can take a while to process. Whether you use complex SQL queries or other techniques to get data out, actually generating the resulting page may...   Read Article.

By: Stephen Milligan (a.k.a. Spike) Code Meister Warmer Brothers Ltd. Introduction As an Allaire Spectra Trainer and Consultant, I am often asked about the best way to get started with Allaire Spectra. My answer is to get started with the CFA tags in ColdFusion Studio. If you understand these tags and how they can be integrated with ColdFusion code,...   Read Article.

Allaire Tech Note By: Marjorie Golden, Allaire Documentation Group Abstract An effective IDE needs to provide developers with the tools that they need to do their job easily and efficiently and that's what we try to offer with ColdFusion Studio. During this tech note, you learn how to use Allaire Spectra toolbar features to program your applications,...   Read Article.

By: Dave Gruber Product Manager for Allaire's Web Systems Management Solutions Technology products have used caching to increase performance for years. Simply put, a cache is a fast storage buffer used to increase the performance of a data request. Today's market offers numerous caching options that will enhance the performance of your ColdFusion...   Read Article.

By Christina Lamkin Senior Technical Writer Macromedia, Inc. Click here to read or download a PDF file of this article. Macromedia Spectra dramatically expands the Web site function and management capabilities available to ColdFusion Web site developers and managers. Its content management, e-commerce, and customer management features are so extensive...   Read Article.

by Cameron Mathews 14 Dec 2001 Cameron Mathews is a Web programmer and published poet, though he is looking for a job in a punk band.... Page 1 When I heard that Macromedia had released the new ColdFusion 5 , I wondered what they could have possibly done to expand the functionality of an already great product. From my perspective, version 4.5 had it...   Read Article.

By Frank DeRienzo Principal Technical Support Engineer Allaire Corp. Your fire hose of inbound sessions has exponentially increased to the point where it now resembles Niagara Falls. How should you configure your ColdFusion or JRun Web site to gain the absolute maximum speed under the heaviest of loads. What do you think the ultimate Allaire clustering...   Read Article.

By Charles Arehart Founder/CTO SysteManage carehart@systemanage.com Have you ever wondered about the difference between the many kinds of mappings available to you when doing ColdFusion development? There is indeed a big difference between: Web server mappings ColdFusion administrator mappings The quot;home directoryquot; for your domain on your Web...   Read Article.

Abstract This tech note introduces XML, and provides an example of transforming XML data to application data using WDDX. Contents What is XML? Using XML with ColdFusion Ways to Handle XML in a ColdFusion Application Transforming XML Data Using WDDX Using CFWDDX to Manipulate the WDDX Packet What is XML? XML is a tag-based, user-defined language. Unlike...   Read Article.

By Frank DeRienzo Principle Support Engineer Allaire Corp. Does this story sound familiar? Until now, you have avoided clustering your ColdFusion Web site, but you are experiencing sharp peaks in load that degrade the your site's performance. You need Web performance to create revenue, but you need Web-generated revenue to justify the setup costs...   Read Article.

By Justin Fidler Chief Technology Officer Bantu, Inc. Introduction One of the most important new features added in ColdFusion Server 4.5.1 is the CFQUERYPARAM tag, which enables the use of bind variables in a query. Bantu.com makes extensive use of the Oracle 8.1.6 database, and CFQUERYPARAM works perfectly with it. On the database side, we've...   Read Article.

by Julia Lynne Green on ColdFusion Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 11029 times Rating: 60 users 4.67 out of 5 Next I was asked by Will Spence of Dautolink, a non-profit, (still under construction) to work on a Password program that was Database Driven. I started by constructing an Access database, easily posted in Dautolink, with preset...   Read Article.

By Tim Buntel Product Manager Macromedia, Inc. At the Washington D.C. ColdFusion Developer's Conference, the opening day keynote presentation featured a Macromedia ColdFusion Server 5 preview. ColdFusion Product Evangelist Ben Forta explained to the audience how many of version 5's features were inspired directly from feedback from developers. quot;Probably...   Read Article.

by Todd S. Anderson I was sitting in a sales meeting about a half a year ago when I first came into contact with Cold Fusion. A major software distributor who had just taken on the Allaire product range and hired me to work technical support. As time went past I had a play around with the product trying to get a feel for the many intricacies that would...   Read Article.