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Improve Your Coding Smarts with ColdFusion

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EDT

If you read CF-related blogs, you've undoubtedly stumbled upon discussions of seemingly arcane subjects like continuations or closures or first-class objects or absence of side effects. It's likely bloggers have tracked down the source - some would say fount - of such concepts and you'll find them waxing eloquent. As they should.

Easy Flash Dashboards

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:00:00 EST

Dashboards are user interfaces that organize and present information intuitively, usually with graphical elements. The information is often aggregated from several sources (databases, operational metrics, log files, etc.) and summarized. They are often used by decision or policy makers.

Handling PDF Forms with ColdFusion

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:15:00 EDT

Over the past few years government agencies and businesses have converted many of their paper forms to static PDF documents, making them available on Web sites as downloadable files for users to print locally, fill out, and submit by snail mail. All Internal Revenue Service forms are now available this way.

CFMX and the Mainframe

Thu, 26 May 2005 08:45:00 EDT

Many of the mainframe computers purchased by companies sometime in the past 3 decades are still in use. This is because they were a major financial investment to buy, they house years' worth of crucial data, resources have been spent to develop applications for these systems, and because quite honestly they still do their job well.