ColdFusion MX Overview – UDFs Enhanced

Page 4 — UDFs Enhanced

Three of the most important new tags in CFML are the new <CFFUNCTION>, <CFARGUMENT> and <CFR …

ColdFusion MX Overview – An Introduction ...

Page 5 — An Introduction to Components

In ColdFusion 5, modular code was basically a choice between a <CFINCLUDE>, a custom …

ColdFusion MX Overview – Exploring CFCs ...

 Page 6 — Exploring CFCs In-Depth

Lets create another component that expands on our understanding of the first one. This time …

ColdFusion MX Overview – Web Services

Page 7 — Web Services

If you are a Web developer and you haven’t heard the buzz phrase “Web services” yet, you m …

ColdFusion MX Overview – Functionality a ...

First, we’ll need to go back into our .cfc file and let ColdFusion know that we plan on exposing the component as a Web service. …

ColdFusion MX Overview – Consuming Web S ...

In our last segment, we created a Web service that anybody can use no matter which programming language they are using to call it. All …

ColdFusion MX Overview – XML, Java, and ...

Page 10 — XML, Java, and Flash in CFMX

If you’ve ever had to create, parse, or transform XML documents other than WDDX in Col …

ColdFusion MX Overview – ColdFusion MX&# ...

Page 11 — ColdFusion MX’s Evil Twin?

One thing that took me by complete surprise during the creation of this article was the …

ColdFusion MX Overview – The Wrap Up

 Page 12 — The Wrap Up

I think ColdFusion MX should raise some eyebrows in the Web development community. Macromedia has done …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed

When I got my review copy of Studio 8, immediately I saved it from that suffocating shrink wrap it came in. The box sure looked nice. T …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Install

Install
I decided to see what would happen if I installed Studio 8 over Studio MX 2004. I wasn’t sure if this new version would i …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Improvements

Improvements
Dreamweaver 8 brings a lot to the table. First and foremost, for the developer, this installment brings Dreamweaver as clo …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Coding Toolbar

Coding Toolbar
The gutter now holds a wealth of handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Pasting from Wo ...

Pasting from Word?
Have you ever received copy from Marketing? From a user with Word? Dreamweaver now has Paste and Paste Special. Neve …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Comment/Uncomm ...

Comment/Uncomment
Now you want to drop a number of preformatted types of comments in to your document. Type your comment, select the ty …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Code Collapsing

Code Collapsing
It’s back! If you’ve been using Homesite (or, heaven forbid, CF Studio) all this time, it never left; but f …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Workspaces

Workspaces
Much improved workspace layouts make working in Dreamweaver 8 very easy. Previous versions offered either “Coder” …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Tag Completion

Tag Completion
Last but certainly not least, one of my favorite improved features in Dreamweaver 8 is the tag completion functionality. …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – New Stuff

New Stuff
CSS
Dreamweaver offers great new support for CSS. The unified CSS panel puts all aspects of using, learning, and mastering CS …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Background File ...

Background File Transfer
Ever configure a site so that the remote site was an ftp site somewhere? Did you ever save a file and have to …