Carey Lilly

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 you sent back new layouts....It ate into companies' profits. But with the fax machine, anything that could be put on a piece of paper could be sent anywhere in the world in a fraction of the time needed to physically ship it. There was one catch, of course: you needed a fax machine. Two, actually. For the fax machine to be the effective tool it became, there needed to be a fax machine in every office. Now I have to tell you, I fell in love with ColdFusion back with version 1.0. I ... (more)

Studio MX by Macromedia

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," I said, after a few heartbeats, "I may change my mind on that." Just so you don't think I was being unfair, I wasn't making a blanket statement. I first used visual Web-design tools with the HTM... (more)

cfx_kmSuite From Hopkins Technology, LLC

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.... (more)

Activedit 2.5 by CfDev.com

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 format the text without learning
and ? The boss nixed the idea as too expensive and time-consuming. I probably wasted enough time converting her text to do the database option twice. But ... (more)