Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI for short, is a very powerful and often under used technology. I am simply fascinated by how much you can accomplish...
0 replies - 552 views - 03/27/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Turn off automatic reloading of your application
This will greatly reduce the time the application needs to process all request. This is the way...
0 replies - 279 views - 03/19/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
While looking for a solution of a different problem, I realized that SQL Server has a feature called extended stored procedures. Extended stored procedures, at...
0 replies - 771 views - 03/17/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
ColdFusion's new onMissingTemplate() function is a great addition to our toolbox, and mind blowingly useful for Dynamic Page Generation, but (as Ben Nadel...
4 replies - 1213 views - 03/12/08 by Adam Tuttle in News
One of the new features in ColdFusion 8 is the ability to manipulate
images using ColdFusion tags and functions. In addition to being to do
generic image...
2 replies - 759 views - 03/03/08 by Brian Swartzfager in News
A while back, I was in need of a universal package tracking tool that is not specific to the carrier. Almost every carrier provides some kind of an API but it...
0 replies - 440 views - 02/19/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
If you are using the ModelGlue framework for your ColdFusion development, you know how to get variable values from the form/url scope. Assuming you are inside...
4 replies - 518 views - 02/18/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Integrating your application with Active Directory (or another LDAP based directory) is a common requirement in many business applications. Almost every...
1 replies - 2776 views - 02/11/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
While programming with Model-Glue, I find that I have to often include JavaScript files in each individual view. I most often do this for form validation but...
3 replies - 640 views - 02/06/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Those who haven't used CFML often have the perception that it is a niche language or 'training wheels' for developers to get their feet wet with programming...
1 replies - 740 views - 02/06/08 by Todd Sharp in News
I recently came across a question on the Adobe forums about being able to tell who called a certain function in a base component (the "super"). The...
0 replies - 330 views - 02/06/08 by Gary Gilbert in News
Many ColdFusion developers know that the underlying power of ColdFusion is Java. I've personally never written a line of Java, but I have taken advantage of...
0 replies - 1248 views - 02/05/08 by Todd Sharp in News
Model-Glue comes with some generic messages that you can use to manipulate data from your database. Generic messages are only available when you are using an...
0 replies - 450 views - 02/01/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services
for J2EE application servers. It is...
0 replies - 1338 views - 01/31/08 by Franck Wolff in News
I am always interested in tutorials. I love to learn new things. In my travels recently, I found a good set of tutorials on over at Gary Gilbert's blog. Gary...
0 replies - 644 views - 01/30/08 by Dan Wilson in News
