Isaac Dealey has contributed immensely to the CF community and he has a very nice blog article on the virtues of and some good guidelines in using the CFQUERYPARAM tag in ColdFusion applications. There are many reasons for using this tag, data integrity and of course in these days of frequent virulent attacks, dealing with [...]
101 stuff I know, but still there are many developers who don”t scope their variables and here I am just covering ColdFusion. It is really important to scope variables, there are many reasons two key ones are; scoping variables aids the performance of the ColdFusion Server as it does not need to “guess” the [...]
5 days of silence, good heavens time flies when we”re enjoying ourselves. We just started a new project that takes us right back to our Allaire-Macromedia days of in-depth troubleshooting of large corporate CF Web Applications, hence the time flying. Our tool of always choice or resource would make more sense was the [...]
Saw this item on Google News Headline today- Time Warner Cable to Launch Next Generation of Road Runner; Road Runner Customers Now Better Able to Take Advantage Of Today’’s Media Rich Web Content. There’’s a nice mention in the body of the article re Flash. Verbatim – “The Road Runner service was redesigned and developed [...]
There is a lot of heat in discussions going on currently regarding Off-Shoring and the effects of that on the US Technology Industry. The main reaction from many has been to propose some sort of protectionist scheme. Interestingly enough, 8 leading US based Technology giants; Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, EMC, Motorola, NCR and Unisys [...]
OnTap is a fast evolving alternative framework for ColdFusion applications. Isaac Dealey the architect and designer of the OnTap framework just announced the release of a major new plugin for OnTap, on CF-Talk. Verbatim: Login is the first onTap framework plugin designed to be installed into an application via the Plugin Manager tool. It provides [...]
Here at Webapper we are convinced that Smart-Homes and all that relates to that; Smart Cars etc, is an immense POTENTIAL market. I emphasize potential because that is what it is at present. There is an interesting article in today’’s Los Angeles Times relating to the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The article [...]
Interesting article on Internetnews.com regarding Google and their option for a non-browser search capability with The Google Deskbar. This is a free download and installs a small Google search window within the Windows task bar. It also allows Google searching from within other Applications by using “Ctrl + Alt + G” from with Excel or [...]
This article on Builder.com explains the different Database Engines that are available with an install of MySQL. Verbatim – What if you were a race car driver and could swap engines with the flip of a switch instead of having to make a trip to the garage? The MySQL database does something like this for [...]
As Sean Corfield has already mentioned, Brandon Purcell’’s blog is truly a gold-mine of vital and practical information for all of us working with ColdFusion and other MM products. We will shortly be helping a client to do a large Enterprise install of CFMX running on J-Run and the article we are linking to here [...]
