When ColdFusion 8 came out, there was tons of oohs, ahhs, and OMG must have that over the new features and goodies. It was one serious upgrade, with some fifty or more new tags and functions introduced. Developers eagerly looked to learn more about the new CFIMAGE tags (awesomeness, to […]
To help me really get this site back to active status, make it easier to maintain, and make it more interactive for my readers, I have redone the site to use Mango Blog, a free, open-source ColdFusion blogging system. I'm still working on tweaking the design and in importing all […]
Finishing up our ColdFusion 8 Advanced training, based on Adobe's session 10, we look into Application scalability and finding bottlenecks. We then looked at how to use query and template caching and threading to address some of these performance issues. This session was first conducted on October 29, 2009 and […]
For our next to the last session of the Advanced training, we looked at generating PDFs on the fly with , then explored several new tags and functions that were introduced in ColdFusion 8: , , and , along with their related child tags, and the new 50+ strong image […]
Combining Adobe's fifth and sixth modules, we we looked at an often overlooked, but important need for any application, the Exception Handling Framework – how your applications handles the unexpected, including bugs, system issues, and invalid user responses. We looked at ways of handling errors on the server level, application […]
In the last session, we finished looking at the different variable types, so with session 4 we moved back to components and took them to another level: instance-based components. We also took a peek at the Administrator API and reviewed the concepts of component prototyping. This session was first conducted […]
In this session, we reviewed arrays and structures, including their differences, lopping over them, and the various functions available in ColdFusion for each. We also looked into the realm of dynamic variables, complex data types, and complex data structures. This session was first conducted on July 2, 2009 and took […]
In this session, we dug into creating and manipulating lists and queries more in-depth, including the various functions available for working with each, looping over them, creating queries from “thin air”, and queries of queries. We also looked performing loops over date/time and working with , then finished by studying […]
With this session, we start the Advanced ColdFusion course. Due to the greater depth of material, these sessions will probably be one-on-one with Adobe's, except of course we skipped session 1 which is intro stuff and setting up the server and Dreamweaver. For our sessions, I also added a hands-on […]
Session 4 combines Adobe's final intro level units, 9 & 10, with quite a bit added to fill in details more. It was conducted on May 7, 2009 and took approximately 3 hours. Table of Contents: Part 10: Recycling Code Custom Tags Scoping with Custom Tags End tags Alternate calling […]