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Sam Farmer05/15/12
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ColdFusion 10 Released Today: New Features

With the release of ColdFusion 10 today, we take a look at Sam Farmer's new feature rundown. Some of the cooler things include having REST baked in and having WebSocket support.

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/12
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FarCry Solr Pro CMS Plugin

Looking for a Solr CMS plugin on par with the Drupal plugin? The FarCry Solr Pro plugin lets you use the power of Lucene (through Solr) to index and search your site. It goes above and beyond ColdFusion's native implementation of Solr.

Raymond Camden03/06/12
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Web Sockets with Server Side Logic: Follow-Up and Fixes

Raymond Camden follows his previous post on WebSockets and ColdFusion with important updates to the chat system, including several instructive fixes to a few subtle problems with his first attempt.

Raymond Camden02/29/12
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Multiple File Upload is Easy in HTML5

Raymond Camden introduces HTML5's multiple file upload spec, solves a few legacy browser annoyances, and provides a simple template that includes his JavaScript solution.

Judah Johns02/08/12
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Easiest Way to Deploy ColdFusion to the Cloud

Learn how to deploy a Cold Fusion 9 application to the cloud using Jelastic. This tutorial will take you through creating an environment, the WAR file, and deploying the Java package.

Sagar H Ganatra01/24/12
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ColdFusion Tip: How to tell if path is file or directory

Today, one of the ColdFusion users asked me a question "Is there anyway I can find out whether a path is a directory or a file? There is no isDirectory() function available in ColdFusion and I don't want to write Java code to do this. Any...

John Esposito10/31/11
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Ask DZ: What Book Do You Think Every Programmer Should Read?

Do you ever think about all the great books for programmers, and then form your opinion on the one book that every programmer should read? Maybe a traditionalist will pick Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Or maybe Fred Brooks' The Mythical...

Sam Farmer10/25/11
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Next release of ColdFusion has websockets, closures, enhanced security, REST and more

At Adobe MAX the ColdFusion team showed off some of the planned features in the next release code-named "Zeus". Highlights include:

Jim Moscater09/29/11
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John Whish08/15/11
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BeanFactory Aware Beans with WireBox

A while ago I wrote a blog post about making beans BeanFactory aware you can read it here: Inject ColdSpring into your Beans. These days I tend to use Wirebox for most of my projects. In the previous blog post I was creating DAOs on the fly and you can do...

John Whish08/01/11
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How I started in ColdFusion

My entry for Steve Bryant's "How I got started in ColdFusion day".

John Whish07/25/11
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Secondary Level Caching in ColdFusion ORM

I've been doing some performance improvements to a site by making use of the ORM Secondary Level Caching that is built into ColdFusion 9. Interacting with databases is a common bottleneck in applications so you want to reduce the amount of queries you need...

Ben Forta07/18/11
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Running Servlets On ColdFusion

ColdFusion Technical Support Engineer Vikas Chandran explains how to run Java servlets on ColdFusion.TO TEST -Create a cfm page and call the Servlet [in our case the servlet name is "testServlet"] with content. note we are using...

John Whish07/11/11
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Merging two arrays

I've mentioned this before in passing in previous posts, but I've just used it to solve a problem and thought it deserved it's own blog post! The problem I had was that I had two arrays that I want to merge into one. ColdFusion doesn't have an in-built...

Ben Forta06/29/11
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