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Archive for February, 2009
Protecting ColdFusion Applications Against SQL Injection Attacks
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 you are a new developer who does not understand the ramifications of a SQL injection attack, then this is a must read. ColdFusion has quite [...]
Time: Top 25 Best Blogs 2009
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 list their top 5 overrated blogs and why they are on the list. One of my favorites Lifehacker made the top 25.
ColdFusion & .NET: Parsing an XML Feed (Xbox Live)
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 parsing a feed that returns Xbox Live information for a user. Microsoft does not officially provide this feed, but I came across a little web [...]
Facebook is for Old Fogies
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 never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions. We wish we still did that. But we don't." Ha!
Nesting Groups in 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, down to a fourth level. On a whim I decided to group them in cfoutput tags with the appropriate group by attribute and was pleasntly [...]
.NET: Sending a HTML Email with an Attachment
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 send an HTML email and secondly, add an attachment. So I put together a quick sample of doing this. I have also included the full [...]
Tweet Wisely!
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 addicted to to Twitter, and was surprised to see on a trip to Iraq that he had service on his Blackberry. So Hoekstra went to [...]
Smashing Magazine: Harsh Truths of Corporate Websites
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 points that many of us have seen time and time again while working in this industry. It's worth a read! I agree 100% with his [...]
ColdFusion & .NET: Send an Email
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 how to send a text based email in each language. In ColdFusion you use the CFMAIL tag to send off an email. In the example [...]
ColdFusion: Overlay an Image
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 had the chance to play around with a couple of them last evening. The problem was I needed all the images on the site to [...]
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