Take one part regular expressions, one part ColdFusion and one part Fark.com and you can see all the pics posted on the story comments minus all the comments.
I have been trying to hone my RegEx skills to use for good and a little bit of evil, so I decided to challenge myself. I read [...]
Going back and updating old code sucks. Especially, if you need to update code because it was statically coded. I have been migrating a an older registration form for my current project, and noticed a the credit card year date field still had 2006 in the select list. I created a solution [...]
During the few weeks my work sites were getting hit with a nasty SQL injection that would update all the text fields in our SQL tables. I came up with some code to curb the URL injections as well as form-based attacks. It has been effective, but I wonder if anyone has a [...]
Recently, I have been working on an internal tool for our sales and marketing departments. They wanted the ability to provide the URL of a company and return various information. One of the elements they wanted was the number of pages index in Google.
Web 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 [...]
Sitemaps 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 [...]
ColdFusion 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.
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.
Looking 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.
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.
