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Egenera Changes CEOs Again

By Maureen O'Gara

kennyo wrote: Actually, Egenera's CEO is staying on as Board chairman. As the company transitions to be a multi-platform player, the feeling is to have management who are experts about software, the converged infrastructure market, and familiar with the players in the space. Ergo the new CEO, and ergo the new levels of backing from investors. The company is still hiring in its field and OEM spaces, and in conversations with multiple IHV partners.

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Handling Errors in Studio Query Building or Debugging Tools

By Charlie Arehart

The query building and interactive debugging tools in Studio each work in conjunction with the RDS (remote development services) feature, whether you're working with databases or templates that are stored locally or against a remote server.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,136

Easier Insertion of Dates with CFINSERT/CFUPDATE

By Charlie Arehart

When you're inserting date/time values into a database, you want to be careful about deciding whether the date should be hardcoded into the form (perhaps as a hidden field) or whether it should be computed at the time of the data entry.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,308 Replies: 1

Be Careful in Multi-conditioned CFIF's

By Charlie Arehart

When performing a CFIF testing multiple conditions, be careful when testing against a value that could equate to a Boolean true or false (0 or 1, yes or no, etc.).

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,083

Testing Against Many Values in a CFIF

By Charlie Arehart

If you have to test a condition against many values in a CFIF, you may be tempted to write out a very long condition, such as:

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,677

Saving Files Where Expected in Studio

By Charlie Arehart

Studio has an interesting (and to some, annoying) mechanism for determining where to save newly created files. If you're not aware of this approach, you can be left feeling that Studio has made a mistake in deciding where to save a file—if you even notice it's not where you ha...

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,797

June 1998 Tip and Tricks

By Ray Camden

Output of query results into a tabular format provides developers with a wide variety of formatting options. Use of color is but one of the options available to developers to enhance readability of data for the end-user.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,867

Whither The Studio Query Builder

By Charlie Arehart

Did you know that Studio has a built-in SQL query builder? It provides a drag-and-drop SQL query building interface (much like that used in MS Access) that can be performed against any of your available datasources, including Access, SQL Server, and the rest.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,462

Updated Studio Documentation

By Charlie Arehart

If you've longed for more documentation on how to get the most from the ColdFusion Studio editing tool, Allaire has heard you. There have been two recent updates to the documentation that you may have missed.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,832

Automatically Close Quotes, Pounds, and Comments in Studio

By Charlie Arehart

Did you know that you can have Studio automatically close quotes, pounds, and comments when you enter an opening one?

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,619

Doing IF Tests Within CFMAIL

By Charlie Arehart

You've probably noticed that CF leaves white space in HTML pages where CF tags existed before the page was processed.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,873

May 1998 Tip and Tricks

By Ray Camden

CF 3.x now allows you to directly reference values stored within a CFQUERY result set. To reference a value stored in query myquery in column mycolumn at row 4 requires the following syntax:

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,256

Creating Multi-Column Lists

By Joe Copley

When you have a long list to display, it often makes sense to break the list up into columns. If you display your list using tables, a simple CFIF tag is all it takes.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 397

Tips

By Charlie Arehart

We've all been taught that, when we have a choice to take all we can of something, we should instead take only what we need.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,640

The Return of the Static Page

By Joe Copley

Those static pages we were so glad to leave behind--they're back.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 269

CFFTP: Dispelling the Myths

By Rob Brooks-Bilson

If I had to pick the most underutilized and most misunderstood of all the ColdFusion tags, it would have to be the CFFTP tag. The CFFTP tag has been around since version 3.x of ColdFusion and allows ColdFusion applications to interact with FTP servers anywhere in the world.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,055

TIPS

By Charlie Arehart

Let's say you want to create a dynamic SQL query -- that is, a CFQUERY that looks up different fields depending on circumstances. Why would this be useful? Let's say you're creating an employee roster application.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,856

Answers to "So You Think You Know ColdFusion?"

By Hal Helms

The answer is...C. And did you know that ColdFusion processes application.cfm when an application page in the root directory or any of its sub-directories is requested?

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,892

Techniques for Debugging on Deadline

By Shlomy Gantz

'...If Debugging is the art of taking bugs out of programs, Programming must be the art of putting them in_';

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 416

Did you know that CF has two types of division on numbers?

By Sue Hove

There's an important distinction between using the / and \ operators in doing division in CF. Using the forward slash (/) returns real division, with all decimal points intact, as one would expect.

Sep. 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 285