Every day it seems as if another content management system (CMS) is popping
up on the horizon, many of them built using ColdFusion.
Typically, these CMSs contain the same type of functionality. They:
Allow users who don't know HTML to add and edit content easily Display
content using a template system and integrated style sheets Create user
accounts and assign security permissions allowing certain users to perform
only certain tasks Allow content to be indexed and subsequently searched by
the user Modify system settings that control certain functionality of the
site Perform workfl... (more)
Once they've learned the basics of ColdFusion, one of the first applications
many developers will write is an e-mail program. By using CFMAIL and CFPOP,
it is easy to create a basic application that will send mail to an SMTP
service and retrieve mail from a POP service.
This type of functionality can be limited, however, and the only
communications the developer can perform with the mail ... (more)
Question: Who needs version control? Answer: Every developer. Most people
think of versioning control software as something that should be left to big
companies and large teams. However, version control is a good idea for
everyone.
Even if you are working on an application by yourself, it is too easy to lose
important changes forever, because you accidentally saved over a document.
Not ... (more)
Way back when ColdFusion 4.5 was released, the concept of structures
(associative arrays to some of you) was introduced. Never one to be receptive
to change - not to mention having no background in other programming
languages - I shunned structures for the most part and kept on my merry way
working with arrays and lists. Over the years, however, I have come to
appreciate the simplicity a... (more)