Archive for the 'ColdFusion' Category

21 Time-Saving Snippets for Any ColdFusion Developer

ColdFusion SnippetsWeb developers often do repetitive tasks, some of these tasks can be saved as snippets in IDE’s such as Dreamweaver, Eclipse and Homesite to name a few. Here are 21 snippets for ColdFusion developers that will save you time.

Import all of these ColdFusion snippets into your IDE and save some keystrokes and frustration of searching for commonly used chunks of code.
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How to Use ColdFusion to Ping the Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo Sitemap Services

ColdFusion PingSitemaps help web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. If your content is continously updated, then you should let the search engines know that your XML file of all your site links has been updated. To date, Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo support the Sitemap 0.90 protocol. Visit sitemaps.org for the sitemap XML format, if you haven’t already created one. There are also websites that will create a sitemap for you.

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Using ColdFusion’s APPLICATION Scope to Stop Beating on Your Database

ColdFusion logoColdFusion allows you to set an APPLICATION scope that can be leveraged to decrease database calls and increase your site performance. This is a beginner level explanation of how you save a result set in ColdFusion memory that will process quicker than querying a table.

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Standardizing Your URL Data in ColdFusion

We are currently developing coding guidelines and I wanted make URLs were valid and consistently formatted before they were inserted into our SQL tables. Here is a script to standardize the URLs you receive through form data.

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101 ColdFusion Resources To Add To Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness

ColdFusion logoLooking to get your feet wet with ColdFusion or are you a seasoned veteran? Here is a list of 101 resources to find scripts, hosting, news, tips, tutorials, and most importantly, answers.

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Easily Add Social Bookmarking to Your ColdFusion Sites

Do you run a site where you can benefit from tons of potential traffic from social bookmarking sites? You can easily add a ColdFusion custom tag containing all the linked icons to allow your visitors to submit your pages to sites like Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, and others.

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