ColdFusion Training: Session 3

Session three, combining Adobe's Intro Units 6-8, was conducted on April 30, 2009 and took approximately 3 hours. Table of Contents: Part 6: Drill-down Interfaces Part 7: PDF and Tabbed Interface Displays Generating On-the-fly PDFs Generating Tabbed Interfaces Part 8: Data Manipulation Inserting Data The Insert Form Validating Data The […]


ColdFusion Training: Session 2

This second session covers what was covered in Adobe's Intro Units 4 and 5. It was conducted on April 23, 2009 and took approximately 2 hours. Table of Contents: Part 4: Building Forms The Basics of Forms Form Controls Conditional Statements Compound Conditional Statements Evaluating Form Variables Coldfusion Forms Part […]


ColdFusion Training: Session 1

This is the first of several sessions of ColdFusion 8 training I conducted for my fellow developers in my department. We all had exposure to and were experienced in ColdFusion, however most were still using primarily ColdFusion 5 coding. With Adobe's release of their official training materials in April 09, […]


Database Design: Normalization

Why should a web developer care? A badly designed database is not only a pain to work with, but it can bog down your web server. In a worse case scenario, a bad database design can make your server grind to a halt! Although it may take an initial switch […]


Databases: Intro and Overview

A database is a collection of data organized in a way that makes searching and retrieval relatively easy and more efficient. Adding a database to a site can really help in terms of content management, site freshness, and making a site more “dynamic.” It can also make it much easier […]