This subject keeps cropping up in ColdFusion mail lists and on CF forums. It is a mildly confusing subject but one that is worth reading up on. Fully understanding how, when and where to use quotations and pound signs in your CF code has both operational and efficiency benefits.
Cheryl Smith of Macromedia has a concise [...]
This new article by Steve Drucker hits some great points about the needs for us all to move boldly into areas like XHTML, CSS, Accessibility etc. The article is extolling the virtues of Dreamweaver and underlying that are some really excellent common sense reasons which we are glad to hear as we are well down [...]
Verbatim – Macromedia has recently removed the dbvarname attribute from the livedocs for the cfprocparam tag because it was ignored. It was ignored in previous versions because the ODBC standard provided no specifications for calling stored procedure parameters by name. In recent versions they”ve not added support for the attribute because they say the new [...]
Rob Rohan just announced the release of a plug-in for ColdFusion in Eclipse the popular IDE used widely in Java development. The plug in covers Eclipse versions 2x and 3 and it works on Mac, Linux, and Windows (with jre1.4).
cfeclipse ColdFusion plug in for Eclipse
Another CF-Talk gem today, a thread regarding using ColdFusion with LDAP with
a Secure Certificate connection. Matt Liotta as always gives some great advice
and pointers. ColdFusion has a native tag called CFLDAP and on one of our recent
projects we were asked to use LDAP as a security mechanism for a CF App. All
went fine until we [...]
We have been using XHTML as the basis for our web application projects since late 2002. Recently we have embraced the use of CSS for site layout and GUI manipulations outside of straight tables of data output. Sean Corfield has produced some excellent guidelines encompassing this among other things, here. Builder.com put [...]
This item was pointed out in a recent CF-Talk thread about using Java code from within ColdFusion MX applications. The item mentioned is an article in the January 2004 ColdFusion Developers Journal by Darren Schall. It looks to me like a really good way to start getting used to using Java from CF and this [...]
ODBC Error Code = S1C00 (Driver not capable) coupled with Native error code 0 and Optional feature not implemented is a misleading ODBC error with little explanation of what causes it. It happens with MS SQL Server when using CFQuerypram with a SQL Server datetime data type. If you are doing this with MS SQL [...]
Rey Muradez, a FuseBox luminary just started a thread on one of the Fusebox lists about the CBS decision to censor a video by Moveon.org that is critical of the Bush Empire oops sorry Regime. Slip of the finger there! Thank goodness for our good old Internet they have not yet found a way to [...]
Verbatim – Designed to drive sales of Upper Deck Entertainment products in retail stores, the online version of BreaKey, which was developed by MindComet Corporation, utilizes Macromedia’’s Flash Communication Server and Flash Remoting to deliver cutting-edge, interactive game play with real-time chat capability, while engaged in play. In the Battle game, which was built using [...]
