Archive for February, 2009

Protecting ColdFusion Applications Against SQL Injection Attacks

Feb

17

by Mike Fleming at 6:54 pm (1) ColdFusion

I just saw this article on the Adobe Developer Center written by Ryan Wagener discussing what SQL injection attacks are and how to prevent them in your ColdFusion applications.  If… (read the rest)

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Time: Top 25 Best Blogs 2009

Feb

17

by Mike Fleming at 7:16 am General

Time has released their yearly list of the top 25 blogs.  It's always interesting to see what the popular blogs are and why they deem them as so.  They also… (read the rest)

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ColdFusion & .NET: Parsing an XML Feed (Xbox Live)

Feb

16

by Mike Fleming at 2:20 pm (3) .NET, ColdFusion

Today’s post in our series comparing ColdFusion and .NET covers the topic of parsing XML.  If you are a developer you do this quite often.  For this example I am… (read the rest)

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Facebook is for Old Fogies

Feb

16

by Mike Fleming at 6:43 am General

Read this little article from Lev Grossman at Time.  It's a funny list of why he says Facebook is for the middle aged generation.  The best one is #3: "We… (read the rest)

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Nesting Groups in ColdFusion

Feb

12

by Mike Fleming at 7:20 pm (2) ColdFusion

I ran into something interesting today that I had not attempted before regarding the group by attribute in a cfoutput statement.  I needed to separate content into different group headings,… (read the rest)

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.NET: Sending a HTML Email with an Attachment

Feb

12

by Mike Fleming at 7:16 am (2) .NET

A reader who read the earlier post titled ColdFusion & .NET: Send an Email, asked a couple of questions on sending the email in .NET.  He was asking how you… (read the rest)

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Tweet Wisely!

Feb

11

by Mike Fleming at 12:54 pm Technology

Just saw this post on Danger Room.  First of all, the title is awesome and second it's a reminder to post wisely whilst using Twitter.  Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) is… (read the rest)

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Smashing Magazine: Harsh Truths of Corporate Websites

Feb

11

by Mike Fleming at 7:23 am Business

Paul Boag at Smashing Magazine has a great article today on some of the major mistakes that corporations make when it comes to their websites.  He brings up some fantastic… (read the rest)

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ColdFusion & .NET: Send an Email

Feb

11

by Mike Fleming at 7:00 am (3) .NET, ColdFusion

Today's post in the ColdFusion & .NET series covers a fairly simple task: sending an email.  This is very easy to do in both languages.  The examples below show you… (read the rest)

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ColdFusion: Overlay an Image

Feb

10

by Mike Fleming at 7:20 am ColdFusion

I have not had a chance to play around with every piece of functionality with the image functions that were released in ColdFusion 8.  Due to a problem yesterday, I… (read the rest)

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