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CFEclipse and Ganymede Issues

By mfleming ⋅ November 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Having recently had a computer die on me, I have been slowly installing all my dev tools on a new one.  After installing Eclipse 3.4.1 and the latest version of CFEclipse, a couple of missing items were really starting to bug me.  The first was missing tag insight.  I don't use this a lot, but [...]

Woot Tracker Snippet

By mfleming ⋅ November 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As I started browsing my RSS feeds yesterday morning I was happy to see that Woot.com was holding one of their famous days known as a WootOff. So I kept their site open in Firefox and I would refresh it every few minutes to see if a new product was available yet. That quickly became [...]

Adobe Announces Bolt, a ColdFusion IDE

By mfleming ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Big news came out of MAX today.  Adobe has announced their own ColdFusion IDE, named Bolt.  From their description of the product it will be based on the Eclipse platform.  Below are the highlights from their released info:     * Object Relational Mapping auto-configuration    * Application Code Generation    * Server management    * Easily extensible through [...]

ColdFusion Can Scale!

By mfleming ⋅ November 17, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Last week I had someone tell me that ColdFusion was dead, in part because it could not scale for high volume websites.  I for one would totally disagree with that argument, as I know many of you would.  Let me point out one recent example of why this guy's assumptions were incorrect. Let me start [...]

Dynamic ORDER BY Clause in SQL Server Stored Procedure

By mfleming ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Have you ever needed the ability to pass in your sort variable to a SQL Server stored procedure?  At first thought you would think you could do the following: ORDER BY @orderVar But, no dice.  SQL Server will not allow you to set the ORDER BY clause with a variable.  There are two solutions to [...]

SQL Server Profiler

By mfleming ⋅ November 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I do not want to cover everything that can be done with the SQL Server Profiler here, but I do hope that most of the advanced developers out there who use SQL Server regularly are familiar with it.  It has many uses, but for me it has become an invaluable tool to help find some [...]

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