ColdFusion on Ulitzer

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® ColdFusion® 10 software, a premier server side technology designed to allow developers to create more dynamic and interactive Web applications for enterprises using the Java™ EE platform. ColdFusion 10 now offers built-in support for HTML5 and helps boost performance using Tomcat integration and enhanced caching. With the new hotfix installer and scheduler, ColdFusion 10 Enterprise Edition allows enterprise developers to improve productivity, while strengthening authentication and encryption techniques to make websites more secure. With a multitude of enhancements, ColdFusion 10 reduces complex business logic into a few lines of code, dramatically accelerating the development cycle. ColdFusion 10 brings in the same capability to HTML5 application development to help delive... (more)

Programming iOS 5: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Development Book Review

A little background so you know what type of experience I have. I have been a Microsoft .NET architect and developer since the first beta release. Before that C, C++, ColdFusion, ASP, JavaScript and of course HTML. Being a .NET developer has many advantages, but the one major disadvantage we suffer has driven me to Java and Objective-C over the past year. That one disadvantage? Microsoft themselves. They come off as completely lost and have wreaked havoc on .NET developer community the past few years. I have read several books on programming with Objective-C, but this is by far t... (more)

Building a Zip Code Proximity Search with ColdFusion

Recently I was tasked with improving our Web site's Reseller Locator application. This tool helps potential customers in the U.S. find a product reseller in their state. By choosing a state from a drop-down box, a listing of all resellers located in that state is displayed. Over the years, as more and more resellers have signed on to sell our products, some problems with this application have surfaced: Some states, such as California, display a very long list of resellers, and customers may never contact those listed near the bottom. The states with smaller populations such as No... (more)

ColdFusion AJAX Tutorial 1: Auto-Suggest

Ben Forta's Blog I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that displays suggestions as the user types. The auto-suggest control in ColdFusion 8 can be used in two ways, with local client-side data, and with asynchronous calls back to ColdFusion. Here's a simple client-side data example (which uses one of the CF8 example databases, so this should work... (more)

Public-Key Encryption

How secure are your applications? Public-Key encryption may be the solution when security really matters. If you have developed an application that requires user authentication, you have undoubtedly wrestled with varying levels of security. At a basic level, most security models revolve around membership, authentication, and authorization functions. Secure socket layers (SSL) is a popular method for securing the transmission of data between Web server and client. ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion 6.1 have very good integration with Java's Secure Socket Extensions Library, which is ca... (more)