Charlie Arehart

There are many resources we should analyze to ensure optimal ColdFusion operation or to help diagnose problems. Fortunately, there's an awesome free tool that comes to our aid to turn voluminous data into useful information. In this article, I'd like to introduce you to the free L... (more)

FusionDebug is an easy straightforward tool, but if you leverage the experience of others, you can be even more productive. Elsewhere in this issue, Jeff Houser introduces the FusionDebug interactive step debugger. I'd like to carry that discussion a bit farther and share variou... (more)

Errors and bugs: they happen in all code, mostly in development but in production too and perhaps more easily in CFML than in compiled languages. There are several features to help better handle, debug, and test for them, and this article will focus on those. I started writing i... (more)

The ability to view tag-level execution profiling (the amount of time spent on each tag in a request) is no longer a dream, and it opens up powerful new forms of debugging and performance tuning. The Problem: Tools We Lack Most CFML developers know that both ColdFusion and BlueDra... (more)

It's great to have a whole issue of CFDJ focused on integrating CFML with Java. The process is a lot easier than many might think, as the articles in this issue will show. I'd like to review the very basics to get you started, showing some of the cool doors of opportunity that t... (more)

Why reinvent the wheel when you can easily run your CFML applications on any J2EE server? If your team is considering or being forced to move to J2EE (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, etc.), it may be helpful to know that you don't have to throw away or even rewrite your CFML... (more)

Do you really know what it means to run CFML applications on a J2EE server? How does it work, and why would you bother? There are many benefits you may never have considered. In this article, the first of a series, I'll answer these questions. You may have heard that you can dep... (more)

There are many excellent conferences and user groups for CFML developers, and one that consistently gets great reviews is Michael Smith's CFUN event, which will be held in the Washington, DC, area June 26-27. This preview gives you the 4-1-1 on the event. CFUN is the national Co... (more)

Have you ever wanted to see what lines of code are being executed in your template? If you looked for CFTRACE to do that, you were likely disappointed. The CFDEBUGGER tag in BlueDragon, however, can be a great tool for debugging. When CFML developers need to figure out what their ... (more)

While we all made it through the new year, there is still at least one more date issue to contend with. Many systems may not properly recognize that this year, 2000, is a leap year. There are 29 days in February. The good news is that Allaire's date functions do properly recogniz... (more)

CF Advisor (P.C.) - We'd like to find out what's going on with ColdFusion these days. You guys released version 4.5 just launching right now … Berrey - That's right, at today's session [of the 1st Annual Allaire Developer Conference] we announced ColdFusion 4.5 and in this releas... (more)

The Event On Saturday, June 26 in Bethesda, Maryland, several hundred CF developers gathered for the first annual DC ColdFusion User Conference. Created and organized by TeraTech, which sponsors the Maryland CFUG, and co-sponsored by several other notable CF firms including Fig ... (more)

For a first-time event, the 1999 Allaire Developer's Conference provided a jam-packed two days of information and socializing for the more than 1,000 developers in attendance. When several dozen ColdFusion developers from all over the country gathered for the first time in July ... (more)

One of the great new features in 4.5 is a new form of global exception handling. Whereas 4.0 introduced CFTRY/CFCATCH to wrap around a segment of code to be tested and acted upon in case of error, we were still limited to the aged CFERROR tag to trap general errors. The benefit ... (more)

It seems that many, especially newcomers, are not aware that Allaire created a free, limited functionality version of ColdFusion. Called ColdFusion Express, you can learn more at www.allaire.com/cfexpress. There are links to pages the explain the differences between it and the ful... (more)

In the second installment of an exclusive two-part CF Advisor interview, Allaire's Vice President of Technology Strategy, Jeremy Allaire, joined Product Marketing Director Adam Berrey in mapping out Allaire's multiple programming language strategies for ColdFusion, Spectra, WDDX,... (more)

Advanced Security is a set of features that came out in 4.0 of ColdFusion Server, and it offers several very interesting improvements on security, both in terms of how authentication is done, and what can be secured. (Many people are under the mistaken impression that Advanced Se... (more)

If you "save" the query instead (either by using the left-most icon at the top of the query builder or by simply closing the query builder once you've created or modified one), this saved query is presented in a list of all such queries that have been saved for the given datasour... (more)

Take Only What You Need By Charles Arehart Turning on Line Numbers in Studio By Charles Arehart Testing MAXLENGTH in HTML Textarea Fields By Charles Arehart Take Only What You Need: We've all been taught that, when we have a choice to take all we can of something, we should inste... (more)

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. You can easily add a new RDS server to ... (more)