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ColdFusion

• CFC, Actionscript 3, Adobe, Flex, ColdFusion

  File Upload with Flex and Coldfusion

  05.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I am currently working on a sample Flex application that requires the ability to upload files to a destination server. I found this article on the Adobe website, by Ryan Favro. It’s a really nice simple example of how to achieve file uploads using Flex and ColdFusion.
  Multiple File Upload with Flex and Coldfusion

• SEO, ColdFusion

  ColdFusion 301 Redirect

  05.16.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  If you are currently restructuring your website to become more “search engine friendly” here is a nice piece of code using ColdFusion, that will also let Google and other search engines know that you have moved your content to a new location and to update their links.
  Instead of having 404 errors or broken links to […]

• CSS, Usability, Design, ColdFusion

  Dynamic CSS using ColdFusion

  05.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s probably quite a well documented subject already, but just thought I would shed some light on producing dynamic CSS using ColdFusion. Instead of linking to a static stylesheet in your webiste, you can link to a .cfm template and get ColdFusion to produce the CSS code for you, allowing you to switch graphics, colours, […]

• Java, Adobe, ColdFusion

  Force Coldfusion to Sleep controlling the Thread

  04.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I ran into an annoying problem today, that was eventually solved by forcing the current processing thread to sleep.
  The basic task was to stop a windows service on the server, perform some deletions, do some copying, then restart the service.
  After issuing the <cfexecute> command to stop the service on the server, I would then receive […]

• SQL, Java, ColdFusion

  ColdFusion DSNless connection to a database

  02.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This can be a handy piece of code to have in your toolbox if you have a ColdFuson host that will not allow you to create DSN’s. Using this method, you can wrap this in a nice CFC that allows you to query a Microsoft SQL database. The object code example is as follows …

  <cfscript>
  classLoad = […]

• Google, XML, SEO, Microsoft, ColdFusion

  Using ColdFusion to Ping Sitemap Services

  02.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I have found a great ColdFusion example of how to notify the major 4 search engines when your sitemap changes. The process is know as pinging and the example is provided on Jason Bartholme’s SEO Blog. Worth a look as can be useful for prompting the search engines to come and crawl your site until theri […]

• XML, Microsoft, ColdFusion

  XML RPC using ColdFusion and Microsoft.XMLHTTP COM Object

  02.19.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I had recently been reviewing some documentation on a web based API that was available as an XML RPC. At first I was wondering how to achieve this, but then adapted an ASP example provided into a nice neat ColdFusion implementation. For anybody else with a similar problem of invoking an XML RPC API, the […]

• CFC, XML, SQL, Microsoft, ColdFusion

  SQL Bulk Load with ColdFusion - SQLXMLBulkLoad.SQLXMLBulkLoad

  01.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I thought I would post this to help anybody else who might be struggling with loading large XML files and datasets into Microsoft SQL using ColdFusion.
  Using this technique, you can use a Microsoft COM object called “SQLXMLBulkLoad.SQLXMLBulkLoad”. This is a very fast object that allows you to provide an XML mapping file, the XML file […]

• ColdFusion

  ColdFusion Web hosting in the UK

  12.09.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am currently considering web hosting here in the UK instead of the US, due to the nightmare I’ve been having with my current host with downtime. Does anybody host with a UK ColdFusion provider currently and who do you suggest?
   Thanks

• Ajax, ColdFusion

  AJAX Library - Lalabird JSMX API

  11.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been using this tiny AJAX library for a while now and have used it in various projects. It is extremely simple to use and is easily extendable and customisable. JSMX at http://www.lalabird.com/ is great. I know there are many others out there. Does anybody have a favourite?

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