Being thrifty, I like to do my own basic car repairs. However, on some of my
shade-tree repair jobs, I've run into the problem of not having a specific,
but necessary, tool.
I often find myself in the same predicament developing applications for my
clients' Web sites. I'm cruising along, happily coding away, when out of the
blue I suddenly need to do something I've never had to do before.
ColdFusion, of course, makes it easy when you run into a problem. You just
write a custom tag to do the job, throwing in Java or anything else that
catches your fancy, and continue on with life. Sometimes, though, deadlines
loom and budgets are tight. That's when you find yourself haunting the CF Tag
Gallery or Java sites, trying to find that quick-and-dirty (and most
especially, free)... (more)
Some time ago, when Homesite 1.0 was still my editor of choice (yes, that
long ago), I had a problem with a client. A small-town newspaper editor
wanted a wider audience - the Web.
Naturally, she knew nothing about HTML or FTP, and she wasn't about to learn.
I thought, "Create a database." I could use an HTML form to collect the text
and, voilà, instantly updated pages. But how could she ... (more)
Name your price seems to be the catch-phrase in e-commerce these days. The
success of sites like eBay and Priceline testify to that.
Not long ago retailers were scrambling to set up online stores. Now they're
scrambling to set up online auctions. If you're champing at the auction bit
for your own site, or are facing the task of building an auction application
for your clients, AuctionBuil... (more)
Dreamweaver has been upgraded to include many features familiar to users of
CF Studio, and includes other crucial Web-design applications, specifically
Fireworks, Flash, and Freehand.
Okay, let's get one thing straight: I don't like WYSIWYG editors for coding.
Do not.
When I said that to a Macromedia rep on the phone recently, I could feel the
wince all the way across the country. "But,"... (more)
CFhas been rewritten using Java technology, and is much more than just a way
for Web pages to interact with databases.
You could say that the fax machine revolutionized the business world. No more
waiting for contracts as they made their slow progression from one mailbox to
another. No more days and weeks passing as you shuttled layouts to your
client, and they sent back the revisions and... (more)
Carey Lilly is an associate with a Web site– development firm based in the New York area. He has been developing with ColdFusion since 1997 and has 10 years’ experience with relational databases.
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