Vol. 7 Iss: 11 Read back Issues

CFDJ Feature: Creating Subreports with the Report Builder in ColdFusion MX 7 With ColdFusion MX 7, you can use subreports to show more detailed reporting. A subreport is simply a report embedded or nested inside another report. I refer to the report that contains the subreport as the main report from this po... Jan. 20, 2006  Reads: 26,137  Replies: 2

Where's ColdFusion Headed Under Adobe? Adobe has been very successful in selling into the enterprise. This can only help ColdFusion going forward,' says Dave Mendels, in this exclusive interview with ColdFusion Developer's Journal. Here Dave discusses 'Scorpio,' how th... Jan. 19, 2006  Reads: 16,477  Replies: 1

Visualize Your Visitors with Google Maps The availability of the Google Maps API has opened up a slew of new development possibilities and spawned a bunch of web sites that rely on this data to function. Example applications include jogging trackers, subway map overlays, a... Jan. 18, 2006  Reads: 23,285  Replies: 2

Using Objects in Your ColdFusion Applications As we searched the Internet looking for a decent definition of objects in object-oriented programming, it became evident that objects themselves are difficult to define. Here we've included a comprehensive definition of exactly ... Jan. 16, 2006  Reads: 15,575  Replies: 6

Introducing Arf! (Active RecordFactory!) I'd like to introduce 'Arf!' (Active RecordFactory!), a Rails-style ActiveRecord implementation in ColdFusion. I have to disclaim this by saying that I have mixed feelings about ActiveRecord - it's at the same time very nice for... Jan. 16, 2006  Reads: 12,002  Replies: 3

ColdFusion's Place in the New i-Technology Spectrum ColdFusion recently took a bit of a jump up to #19 on TIOBE Software's index of most popular programming languages (ww w.tiobe.com/index.htm?tio be_index). I hadn't looked at this index in a while but it's interesting to see what CF... Jan. 11, 2006  Reads: 12,790  Replies: 1

Making It As An Independent Consultant I haven't left the house in 11 days, yet I'm not on vacation. I spent 3 hours last Friday morning replacing a broken doorknob, yet the clients don't care. They probably didn't even know. Most of the time they don't even know if I'm... Jan. 7, 2006  Reads: 17,426  Replies: 2

Welcome the Arrival of Adobe and Web 2.0 It's official - the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia has been finalized and our beloved ColdFusion has a new home. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all. There was a lot of talk within the community about how this may adversely effect ... Jan. 4, 2006  Reads: 36,493  Replies: 1

Why Should ColdFusion Be Statically Typed? In this article, I argue that by adopting the static typing model found in languages such as Java, we have been seduced into accepting a bad model - or at least a model that is inappropriate for the dynamic typing mechanism inhere... Jan. 21, 2006  Reads: 20,806