Found a nice simple RSS reader example at Jonathan Fisher’s blog (northcubed). It is built using Flex Builder 3 and runs in the Adobe AIR runtime on the user’s desktop. Chromeless windows are supported and full source code is available to view or download.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Currently working on restructuring some google sitemaps for my client. Instead of the usual query, loop, output process for a ColdFusion XML manipulation based task, I decided to get SQL server to do the work for me. Using FOR XML AUTO, ELEMENTS at the bottom of my query, I can get SQL to return the results of […]
The answer to the question above is very much a question of security. Facing the same question at the moment, I believe it would be best to move all CFC’s into a globally accessible shared mapping. From here the CFC’s can then be divided by project or use, similar to Java notation for a package. […]