The name on everyone's
lips these days is
Blackstone, the current
code name for the next
release of ColdFusion,
which is coming in early
2005. Look for beta
testing to start later in
2004, with info on
Macromedia's site when
that ...
This month, rather than
focusing on a more
advanced or more obscure
task, I'm going to talk
about a task which I
consider more fundamental
- dynamic form variable
names and their retrieval
on the action page. It
seems that not a mon...
Using JDBC metadata, it
is now possible to
analyze databases and
automate database tasks
with ColdFusion MX in
ways that were
problematic or at best
difficult in the past.
Although Java can be
rather intimidating, you
don't need t...
Hopefully by now you've
heard all about Flex, the
most recent addition to
the Macromedia server
product family. Hot on
the tail of its release,
Macromedia Training has
released 'Fast Track to
Flex,' a new course that
introduces deve...
I've been developing
ColdFusion applications
since the early days of
version 1.5. While a lot
has changed for the
better with the product
since then, not a lot has
changed - unfortunately -
in terms of the lousy
quality of the CFML ...
If you missed this year's
CFUN conference (June
26-27), you missed a lot.
In addition to the great
time spent meeting and
talking with other
ColdFusion programmers,
Ben Forta gave a keynote
demo of the next version
of ColdFusion, co...
Developers each have
their own approach to
development. You may not
know it, but you have one
too. Having a set
methodology allows you to
sit back down at a
project somewhere down
the line and know what is
going on immediately.
Ma...
In my last column we
looked at using
ColdFusion Components to
abstract database access,
essentially divorcing
presentation code from
anything database
specific. As you will
recall, the benefit of
this was that when a
database chan...
Here's how to put your
knowledge of HTML to work
by creating free PDFs
with FOP (Formatting
Objects Processor). In
the May issue of CFDJ, I
covered the basics of
utilizing FOP from Apache
to dynamically create
free PDFs in your
Co...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha