I am speaking on “Selling ColdFusion to Clients” at CFUNITED-07. I think ColdFusion compares well techically to Java, .Net and PHP. It is often much faster to develop in CF than other web languages – partly due to it being tag based, due to the large amount of build in functionality that has an easy […]
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What I Do After First Dreamweaver Installation
I have just formatted my drive C after having a new hard disk and installed everything again and again. Of course Dreamweaver is also installed from scratch. After starting Dreamweaver for the first time I need to set some settings. Here is what I do after a new Dreamweaver installation. First I am a ColdFusion/Flex […]
SQL tricks – creative JOINs with legacy data
Have you ever needed to extract data from old tables and use it in a way the table designer never planned on? This seems to be an all-too-common experience. Recently, I learned that I could parse a number out of a string field, cast it as an integer, and actually use that result in a […]
Adobe Apollo Alpha Public
Adobe Apollo public alpha release is now at Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo). You can reach release notes to get more information about the current release. You can download and install on your Windows or MacOSX platform. Here are some other useful Apollo links: Free Apollo Training From Lynda.com https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-apollo?trk=learning-serp_learning-search-card_search-card&upsellOrderOrigin=lynda_redirect_learning Sample Applications http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Applications:Samples Apollo Camp San Francisco […]
Flex – The turtle (Webservice) and the hare (RemoteObject)
Hello World, Mark Piller just posted a fascinating blog about the performance and speed differences between using Webservices, HTTPServices, and RemoteObjects in Flex. It should be no surprise that RemoteObjects are faster than the other two. But it was surprising to me just how fast. Take a look at his blog and sample Flex application […]
TeraTech wins better consulting award from CFDJ magazine fifth year in a row
TeraTech won the CFDJ (ColdFusion Developers Journal) Readers Choice award for best ColdFusion consulting company world wide for the fifth year in a row. TeraTech was runner up for best training company, best product CFXGraphicsserver and best community website (CFConf).
Regular expression to search for FORM and CFFORM tags
FORM and CFFORM tags Recently I needed to go through a large body of code, checking all forms to be sure they met certain requirements. There was a lot of old ColdFusion code, written by many different people over a period of years. I didn’t have one single string to search on, and wanted to […]
Mindmapping for better programs
I will be speaking about Mindmapping for better programs at the CFUNITED/Express event in New York on 3/8/07. http://www.cfunitedexpress.com/ Mindmapping is a way to visually work with ideas that was invented in 1970 by Tony Buzan. Now used by millions of people worldwide, mindmapping uses both the left (logical) and right (visual) sides of the […]
CFEclipse Cheatsheet
CFEclipse Cheat Sheet Jim Priest has a good new cfeclipse cheatsheet up: https://www.thecrumb.com I had seen this posted on someone else’s blog (can’t find the link), but after Theo’s CFEclipse post, thought it would be useful here. (UPDATE: These are now on the CFEclipse wiki: http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/ShortcutKeys http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/CFSnippets )
CFEclipse 1.3 Update – Part II
Hello World, In my last post I talked about two of the several new features of the CFEclipse 1.3 update. One of which was the Code Snippets feature. Although the Code Snippets has been a feature of CFEclipse for some time now most people (including myself) are either unaware of its existance or its features. […]
