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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:50:00 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-30T14:50:00Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/coldfusion/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/building_rias_on_j2ee_foundations.html "If you're still using HTML, JavaScript, complicated server deployments, and other technologies that don't "just work," try downloading the free Adobe Flex 3 SDK, a trial edition of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional, and the free developer edition of Adobe ColdFusion 8 to begin building better web applications with fewer headaches." coldfusion how-to java ria Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:52:24 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/108152.html Abhay Bakshi 2008-08-29T18:52:24Z "If you're still using HTML, JavaScript, complicated server deployments, and other technologies that don't "just work," try downloading the free Adobe Flex 3 SDK, a trial edition of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional, and the free developer edition of Adobe ColdFusion 8 to begin building better web applications with fewer headaches."]]> 108152 2008-08-28T17:12:03Z 2008-08-29T18:52:24Z 6 0 201 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108152.jpg j2eecop http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/12.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/a_year_as_a_coldfusion_developer_now_what.html What a new software developer who learned ColdFusion on his first job thinks and struggles with... coldfusion flash-flex ria Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:02:50 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/106094.html henryho 2008-08-22T17:02:50Z What a new software developer who learned ColdFusion on his first job thinks and struggles with...]]> 106094 2008-08-22T10:41:19Z 2008-08-22T17:02:50Z 9 0 325 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106094.jpg henryho http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/323162.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/mylyn_30_code_at_the_speed_of_thought.html Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. The theme of the talk is the idea that focus and flow are key to ............ coldfusion eclipse how-to java Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:54:59 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/99480.html mhenke 2008-07-31T12:54:59Z Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. The theme of the talk is the idea that focus and flow are key to ............]]> 99480 2008-07-30T17:45:21Z 2008-07-31T12:54:59Z 8 0 631 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/99480.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/scraping_google_serps_with_coldfusion.html This was my first attempt to combine regular expressions with cfhttp. It’s pretty handy once you get the hang to it, and it can be a very powerful combination. Here’s the script I use to scrape the total number of pages indexed in Google. coldfusion how-to tools web services Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:58:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/98571.html JasonBartholme 2008-07-28T19:58:21Z This was my first attempt to combine regular expressions with cfhttp. It’s pretty handy once you get the hang to it, and it can be a very powerful combination. Here’s the script I use to scrape the total number of pages indexed in Google.]]> 98571 2008-07-28T03:43:32Z 2008-07-28T19:58:21Z 13 0 73 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/98571.jpg JasonBartholme http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/230875.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/reducing_software_defects_10_things_to_keep_in_mi.html I've been involved with software development for over 12 years now. Over that period I've been a developer, architect and a project manager in different software projects. So the following list of 10 things relating to software development (and the key issue of software defect reduction) made a lot of sense. 1..... announcement coldfusion java opinion Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:55:31 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/98393.html mhenke 2008-07-28T11:55:31Z I've been involved with software development for over 12 years now. Over that period I've been a developer, architect and a project manager in different software projects. So the following list of 10 things relating to software development (and the key issue of software defect reduction) made a lot of sense. 1.....]]> 98393 2008-07-27T02:41:11Z 2008-07-28T11:55:31Z 14 0 676 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/98393.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/sql_injection_part_ii_make_sure_you_are_sitting_d.html Back in February I wrote a blog post on SQL Injection that included an example of how a malicious user might inject into a character field even though ColdFusion escapes single quote marks. The attack involved other forms of escaping single quotes - and was effective against MySQL. This week I stumbled upon (more like a train wreck) an attack that is much more sophisticated - and also involves injection into a character field. I am told..... coldfusion database php server Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:59:01 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/96293.html mhenke 2008-07-19T07:59:01Z Back in February I wrote a blog post on SQL Injection that included an example of how a malicious user might inject into a character field even though ColdFusion escapes single quote marks. The attack involved other forms of escaping single quotes - and was effective against MySQL. This week I stumbled upon (more like a train wreck) an attack that is much more sophisticated - and also involves injection into a character field. I am told.....]]> 96293 2008-07-18T20:42:51Z 2008-07-19T07:59:01Z 9 0 600 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/96293.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/coding_standards_do_you_use_them.html Does your development environment use coding standards, particularly around variable/method/file naming? coldfusion standards Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:26 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/96029.html sharmo 2008-07-18T17:37:26Z Does your development environment use coding standards, particularly around variable/method/file naming?]]> 96029 2008-07-17T23:19:13Z 2008-07-18T17:37:26Z 12 0 354 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/96029.jpg sharmo http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272762.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/svntask_a_new_ant_task_for_subversion.html I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple solution for using svn from ant. I just want a 100% Java solution that uses the nice svnkit library. Include two simple jar files and go..... announcement coldfusion eclipse java Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:15:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/95350.html mhenke 2008-07-17T04:15:37Z I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple solution for using svn from ant. I just want a 100% Java solution that uses the nice svnkit library. Include two simple jar files and go.....]]> 95350 2008-07-16T02:30:32Z 2008-07-17T04:15:37Z 10 0 437 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/95350.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/amazon_aws_s3_ec2_google_app_engine_media_temple.html Scalability, OS, Other uses, Resources, Price grid announcement coldfusion reviews server Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:26:44 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/95361.html mhenke 2008-07-16T19:26:44Z Scalability, OS, Other uses, Resources, Price grid]]> 95361 2008-07-16T03:05:11Z 2008-07-16T19:26:44Z 13 0 427 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/95361.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_mylyn_changes_the_way_i_develop.html Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways.... announcement coldfusion eclipse opinion Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:24:48 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/95325.html mhenke 2008-07-16T09:24:48Z Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways....]]> 95325 2008-07-15T23:43:43Z 2008-07-16T09:24:48Z 12 0 798 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/95325.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/eclipse_34_new_project_feature_working_sets.html After upgrading to the new Eclipse 3.4 Platform I am pretty excited about a couple new features. This one is more of a time saver for me and some may not care but I really like it. We have about 10 servers here that I do direct development on (no source control, I know...) and I need a good way to organize all of my projects. What I do is create working sets .... announcement coldfusion eclipse java Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:47:27 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/93768.html mhenke 2008-07-10T00:47:27Z After upgrading to the new Eclipse 3.4 Platform I am pretty excited about a couple new features. This one is more of a time saver for me and some may not care but I really like it. We have about 10 servers here that I do direct development on (no source control, I know...) and I need a good way to organize all of my projects. What I do is create working sets ....]]> 93768 2008-07-09T17:33:54Z 2008-07-10T00:47:27Z 8 0 886 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/93768.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_6_underused_eclipse_shortcuts_for_cfeclipse.html Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it was during a CFObjective presentation by Dan Wilson, I witnessed the copy down shortcut (ctrl-alt-down)....... coldfusion eclipse opinion tools Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:24:39 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92171.html mhenke 2008-07-03T14:24:39Z Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it was during a CFObjective presentation by Dan Wilson, I witnessed the copy down shortcut (ctrl-alt-down).......]]> 92171 2008-07-03T00:44:33Z 2008-07-03T14:24:39Z 9 0 158 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92171.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/refreshing_eclipse_workspace_using_ant.html I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant tasks that you can use for various purposes, once of which is the..... coldfusion eclipse java xml Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:15:32 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/91475.html mhenke 2008-07-01T10:15:32Z I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant tasks that you can use for various purposes, once of which is the.....]]> 91475 2008-06-30T19:33:35Z 2008-07-01T10:15:32Z 8 0 255 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/91475.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/cool_ant_file_trick_and_concept.html I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept, Conditional Execution, and a cool trick. The concept was the if and unless attribute of an ant target. I have read about them but it was great to see them in action. He covered it quick so I had to watch that section a couple times...... coldfusion eclipse java xml Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:29:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/90644.html mhenke 2008-06-29T20:29:23Z I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept, Conditional Execution, and a cool trick. The concept was the if and unless attribute of an ant target. I have read about them but it was great to see them in action. He covered it quick so I had to watch that section a couple times......]]> 90644 2008-06-26T21:54:29Z 2008-06-29T20:29:23Z 6 0 579 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/90644.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/closures_for_java_2.html Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of closures. They're elegant, simple, and easy to use. Their semantics are subtle, but not confusing. They allow for very concise implementation of otherwise complicated algorithms, trimming a vast number of "normal" control structures, particularly various looping constructs. coldfusion groovy java Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:25:05 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/90915.html dan 2008-06-29T17:25:05Z Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of closures. They're elegant, simple, and easy to use. Their semantics are subtle, but not confusing. They allow for very concise implementation of otherwise complicated algorithms, trimming a vast number of "normal" control structures, particularly various looping constructs.]]> 90915 2008-06-27T22:39:54Z 2008-06-29T17:25:05Z 14 0 507 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/90915.jpg dan http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/5.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/your_mom_is_the_future_of_the_web_webnext.html Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps. ajax coldfusion trends web 2.0 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:05:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/90862.html cfjedimaster 2008-06-29T01:05:23Z Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.]]> 90862 2008-06-27T18:36:49Z 2008-06-29T01:05:23Z 12 0 415 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/90862.jpg cfjedimaster http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/201258.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/coldfusion_8enhancements_you_may_have_missed.html ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release brings with it long awaited image manipulation tags and functions. Built-in AJAX integration makes it easier to create "Web 2.0" applications. Compared to previous releases, it's also wicked fast. Given the significance of these new features, it may be easy to overlook some of the enhancements that have found their way into ColdFusion 8. In this article by Charlie Griefer, we will look into the some of the enhancements to existing features and functionality that you may have missed. coldfusion Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:29:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/88646.html charliegriefer 2008-06-20T15:29:21Z ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release brings with it long awaited image manipulation tags and functions. Built-in AJAX integration makes it easier to create "Web 2.0" applications. Compared to previous releases, it's also wicked fast. Given the significance of these new features, it may be easy to overlook some of the enhancements that have found their way into ColdFusion 8. In this article by Charlie Griefer, we will look into the some of the enhancements to existing features and functionality that you may have missed.]]> 88646 2008-06-19T23:29:55Z 2008-06-20T15:29:21Z 14 0 98 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/88646.jpg charliegriefer http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/255656.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/machii_15_application_skeleton.html I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and running quickly. Neil Middleton, Peter Farrell, Matt Williams and Erik Meier each contributed in some way and Neil Middleton was kind enough to create an ANT task to automate the process The code has been contributed to the Mach-II group and should be available on the official site soon coldfusion frameworks java Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:15:05 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/87670.html danwilson 2008-06-18T15:15:05Z I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and running quickly. Neil Middleton, Peter Farrell, Matt Williams and Erik Meier each contributed in some way and Neil Middleton was kind enough to create an ANT task to automate the process The code has been contributed to the Mach-II group and should be available on the official site soon]]> 87670 2008-06-16T12:13:14Z 2008-06-18T15:15:05Z 10 0 132 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/87670.jpg danwilson http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/255646.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_to_handle_object_composition.html Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between objects, as opposed to an "is-a" relationship which is typically done through inheritance or interface implementation. However, Christopher seems to be working with two different kinds of objects here: Singletons and business objects. How you handle the composition can depend on the kind of object you are dealing with and what they are meant to do. coldfusion frameworks java Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:43:42 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/87672.html danwilson 2008-06-17T19:43:42Z Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between objects, as opposed to an "is-a" relationship which is typically done through inheritance or interface implementation. However, Christopher seems to be working with two different kinds of objects here: Singletons and business objects. How you handle the composition can depend on the kind of object you are dealing with and what they are meant to do.]]> 87672 2008-06-16T12:16:14Z 2008-06-17T19:43:42Z 8 0 300 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/87672.jpg danwilson http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/255646.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/minify_cssjs_ant_revisited_using_yui_compressor.html I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression rate for all our js/css files. Download example and run with it. coldfusion css-html how-to javascript Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:15:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/87513.html mhenke 2008-06-16T08:15:52Z I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression rate for all our js/css files. Download example and run with it.]]> 87513 2008-06-15T17:36:29Z 2008-06-16T08:15:52Z 11 0 291 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/87513.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/create_scalable_applications_with_coldfusion_comp.html "This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an invaluable addition to the toolkit, allowing the adoption of a more professional approach to web application development." coldfusion Mon, 26 May 2008 16:28:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/82783.html vladocar 2008-05-26T16:28:21Z "This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an invaluable addition to the toolkit, allowing the adoption of a more professional approach to web application development."]]> 82783 2008-05-25T13:15:03Z 2008-05-26T16:28:21Z 13 0 82 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/82783.jpg vladocar http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/200638.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/playing_with_jquery_coldfusionbloggersorg_update.html A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with the CF8 Ajax stuff, but because a) it's fun to totally rebuild your own sites and b) I wanted to learn more about jQuery. coldfusion frameworks javascript Wed, 14 May 2008 21:07:41 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80914.html bloid 2008-05-14T21:07:41Z A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with the CF8 Ajax stuff, but because a) it's fun to totally rebuild your own sites and b) I wanted to learn more about jQuery.]]> 80914 2008-05-14T09:31:54Z 2008-05-14T21:07:41Z 13 0 149 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80914.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/vmware_open_bluedragon_image_made_available.html We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades as of 05/11/2008) Tomcat 5.5 MySQL 5.0.22 Apache 2.x and of course Open BlueDragon (build of 05/11/2008) announcement coldfusion open source server Tue, 13 May 2008 13:45:14 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80596.html mhenke 2008-05-13T13:45:14Z We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades as of 05/11/2008) Tomcat 5.5 MySQL 5.0.22 Apache 2.x and of course Open BlueDragon (build of 05/11/2008)]]> 80596 2008-05-12T16:59:42Z 2008-05-13T13:45:14Z 8 0 401 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80596.jpg mhenke http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/272685.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/encryption_of_strings_in_cold_fusion.html Simple tutorian on CFM encryption coldfusion how-to Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:26 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80163.html webshiju 2008-05-11T18:11:26Z Simple tutorian on CFM encryption]]> 80163 2008-05-09T13:02:01Z 2008-05-11T18:11:26Z 9 0 50 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80163.jpg webshiju http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/236867.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/use_coldfusion_use_java_at_barneyblog.html If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is incredibly powerful. Yes the interface to Java from the CF level is cumbersome and creating hybrid CF/Java applications pretty much costs you CF's RAD capabilities, but there are some real gems in the Java libraries. coldfusion frameworks java Fri, 09 May 2008 14:24:17 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80033.html dan 2008-05-09T14:24:17Z If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is incredibly powerful. Yes the interface to Java from the CF level is cumbersome and creating hybrid CF/Java applications pretty much costs you CF's RAD capabilities, but there are some real gems in the Java libraries.]]> 80033 2008-05-08T22:38:24Z 2008-05-09T14:24:17Z 9 0 291 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80033.jpg dan http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/5.gif