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By Selene Bainum
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 merr...
Sep. 1, 2006 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 14,320
By Selene Bainum
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.
May. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 17,764  Replies: 1
By Selene Bainum
There comes a time in the life of almost every developer when he or she needs to host a Web site. Unfortunately, not all of us can have a T1 running to our basement with a dual-processor Pentium 4 running our site. No, we developers - and businesses - must look elsewhere for help. Unle...
Mar. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 21,449
By Selene Bainum
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.
Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 10,103  Replies: 3
By Selene Bainum
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.
Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 9,278
By Selene Bainum
Anyone who's needed JavaScript validation for his or her forms knows how easy it is to use ColdFusion's CFFORM tag. It's a quick and easy way to ensure that the form is filled out properly. However, CFFORM can be as limited as it is useful (see Figure 1).
Jul. 26, 2000 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 21,412  Replies: 3