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10 Skills Developers Will Need
Justin James at TechRepublic posted an article yesterday that covers his opinion of the 10 skills developers will need in the next 5 years. You can read his article and I’m sure you will agree with some of his items and there will be some you take a different view on. Here are my thoughts: [...]
Rendering HTML Pages Via ColdFusion
I saw this new technote yesterday from Adobe, showing how you can have ColdFusion render HTML pages. I would imagine most folks know how to do this and also that you can have any file extension set up to be rendered through ColdFusion. They also mention that this is a safe practice for hiding the [...]
Update: ColdFusion and .NET: Comparing the Performance of Image Resizing
Needless to say, I received many comments and emails from the post this morning about comparing the performance between ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. Some folks had wondered if using the ImageResize function instead of the CFIMAGE tag would speed up the ColdFusion numbers. So I decided to test that theory out in [...]
ColdFusion and .NET: Comparing the Performance of Image Resizing
I received a comment from a reader named Daniel yesterday asking if I knew the performance difference in ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. I did not know the answer, so I decided to spend a few minutes and run some tests. I ran the code on the same server and used the exact [...]
ColdFusion: _31c is null Javascript Error Message
Late last week I ran across a very strange Javascript error when putting together a few related selects. The error would appear whenever the bind function was fired on one of the select boxes. After some head scratching it finally dawned on me what the issue was. Since the bind function was making a direct [...]
Verity and ColdFusion – Suggestions
So I guess I have been living under a rock. Today I came across the suggestions attribute that started shipping with ColdFusion 7. In short, this feature will attempt to suggest better search criteria than what the user provided. For example, if you type in "blgo" as your search criteria, it may return no results. [...]
ColdFusion & .NET: Using FTP to Upload a File
Our next little topic in the series comparing ColdFusion and .NET will cover the simple task of uploading a file via FTP. This task is fairly easy in both languages as you will see below. We will look at the ColdFusion code first. ColdFusion includes the handy CFFTP tag to handle all of our FTP [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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