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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Google Takes Green from Prominent Web Sites

Bag of Page RankSome site owners woke up today to the watch their hard earned Google Page Rank decrease. There is wide speculation that the search engine has penalized sites for selling text links. My blog was also affected. It went from a PR5 to PR3.

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Sproose Combines Search with Social Interaction for User Influenced Results

Sproose logoYou and your users can have direct influence over the search results in the new search engine Sproose. Sproose allows the user to vote and comment on links they like, combining social bookmarking and search.

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70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer

JavaScript ResourcesJavaScript is a client-side scripting language which is commonly used in web development. Here are more than 70 JavaScript resources of tutorials, collections, libraries, and tools for seasoned developers or newbies to enhance your web pages.

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2007 Adobe MAX Recap Day 2

Adobe Max 2007Its been a long day, but it was packed with good stuff. First off, ColdFusion 9 is in the works and its apparent Adobe is standing behind the product for the foreseeable future. Today was the Sneaks session as well as the big event party.

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2007 Adobe MAX Recap Day 1

Adobe Max 2007The masses arrived in droves today totaling out at about 4,500 attendees. I tip my hat to the Adobe folks. They are great at crowd management and getting everyone where they need to be.

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2007 Adobe MAX Recap Pre-event Hands-on Training

Adobe Max 2007We started early today. We left town at about 6:00 a.m. to get to the McCormick Place at 8:00 a.m. Today was for hands-on classes that were for an extra fee. We saw some classes of interest and the company paid for us to go in early.

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21 Quality WordPress Plugins That Work on Version 2.3

WordPressWordPress 2.3, the most recent, version of the popular blogging software had schema changes which rendered many user-created plugins worthless. Many bloggers are reluctant to upgrade because that means they will loose some of their blog’s functionality.

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Adobe MAX in Chicago, See You There

Adobe Max 2007Adobe MAX will be held in Chicago from Sunday to Wednesday. MAX is the former Macromedia company’s big conference/exposition of the year. Adobe has embraced the event and continued to make it as remarkable as ever.

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A Visual and Techinical Look at CardroomSupply

Cardroom Supply logoI consider myself quite a poker fan. I have my own chip set, two packs of KEM playing cards, and also a old banquet table that has been felted and bumpered. CardroomSupply asked me to review their site and I focused on the products, appearance, and the code of their site.

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