I imagine most of you have heard of Adobe's launch last year of the new "Creative Cloud" (CC) versions of the programs within its Creative Suite (CS) line. When it first came out, I wasn't particularly concerned. I figured it was aimed at specific markets, like big business that might […]
Back when I was first learning web design, you generally sliced up large images into multiple files because it was believed it resulted in a faster loading time. These days the rule is just the opposite – fewer images, JavaScript files, and CSS files can improve loading performance quite a […]
There are times when I envy web app developers who don't have to deal with much on the UI end because they have other people in their departments/organizations that deal with it. Alas, in our small shop, we code the apps and we have to do all the UI stuff, […]
In one of our applications, we have a couple of “core views”, i.e. view stuff that is used in a couple different places, so we have it in one tidy CFM for easier maintenance. For most of them, the content coming in is the same or similar in nature, however […]
I am, it would appear, something of an oddity amongst "serious" ColdFusion developers, and maybe developers in general. Why? Well, besides the whole female thing, my IDE of choice is Dreamweaver, specifically CS5.5 as of today. Yes, that Dreamweaver. I started using it around 2002-2003 with Studio MX. At the […]
I like ColdFusion's structs, they are simple and easy to use/reference, work great for transporting bits of related data, and names are so much easier to reference than numbers. 😉 We use them in all of our applications for returning result messages and the like. Never really had any issues […]
The addition of the CFSPREADSHEET and all the SpreadSheet functions to ColdFusion 9 was an awesome thing. We have so many apps where clients want an Excel sheet and for whom a CVS is a foreign language. Before CF 9, we used POI to build our spreadsheets, and it worked […]
In the course of developing a good, secure, well functioning web application, you will inevitable spend quite a few lines of codes validating input so that you know it's meeting whatever business rules/logic may apply. ColdFusion has quite a few functions to help with validations, including the IsValid function, which […]
Recently we had a scare at work, and were told that we will lose our jobs very soon. Fortunately it was a false alarm but still we lived 24 hours without fear. The same week I had a younger person I knew ask me what I thought about web development […]
If you're blessed (or rich) enough to have your own servers, using frameworks like Mach-II is pretty easy. Pop it on the server, do a mapping, good to go for all your sites. In a shared hosting environment, however, you will find there are some quirks and gotchas to using […]