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Taking Advantage of ColdFusion MX 7 Event Gateways

In this Macrochat, Macromedia Architect and Technical Lead for ColdFusion, Tom Jordahl discusses ColdFusion event gateways.

ColdFusion has long been the easiest way to create applications that respond to web requests from web browsers. ColdFusion MX 7 opens up a whole new world of applications that can respond to events and messages, from Instant Messaging (such as XMPP/Jabber and Lotus Sametime) to mobile phone SMS text messages, to Internet socket requests, to system events, and much more. Learn more as you watch and listen to his presentation.

NOTE: This Breeze presentation requires Flash Player.

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Creating Better Search Functionality & Indexed Collections with ColdFusion MX 7

Document indexing and searching has always been one of the hidden gems in ColdFusion. Since the early days of ColdFusion, the Verity search technology has been an integral part of creating dynamic, high-function web applications. With the release of ColdFusion MX 7, the ColdFusion development team completely rearchitected this feature from the ground up, using the latest Verity K2 Enterprise release. With this upgrade, ColdFusion MX 7 takes advantage of the latest document filters, features, and capabilities of the best-of-breed Verity technology.

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CF - Experimenting With Flash Form Styles

The look of Flash Forms can be controlled using styles. To help fine tune style selections, [I] threw this quick and dirty form together. It allows you to set eight style settings, the results of which are immediately reflected in a sample button control. Note that [I] am using the setStyle() method to set styles programmatically at runtime, but styles are typically defined in the style attribute.

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Brainstorming with Nimer: ColdFusion Gateways

What are these things and what can I do with them - including SMS phone applications, IM bots, and Oracle triggers.

With the announcement of ColdFusion MX 7 in February, [we] introduced event gateways that turn the ColdFusion web application server into a bona fide Internet application server. The gateways are a great new feature for developers. You can now build applications for a variety of protocols and devices, not just HTTP. Because it's ColdFusion, we made it easy to develop and deploy outside the browser, and you can let your imagination run wild.

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CFMX 7: Upgrade Best Practices

How many of you have been scouring Macromedia ColdFusion Support trying to find information on steps for upgrading to CFMX 7. While [I] haven't seen anything official, here's [my best practice steps for upgrading. Understand that CFMX 7 is designed to install side-by-side with your CFMX 6.x (or any previous CF version) and it defaults to C:\CFusionMX7 or /opt/CFusionMX7. With that in mind, here's what [I] would do for upgrades...

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phpSec's PHP Security Guide

phpSec.org has published a guide for security measures in PHP.

Covers basic steps, register globals, data filtering, naming conventions, error reporting, form processing, spoofed form submissions, spoofed HTTP requests, SQL injections, sessions, shared hosts, and much more!

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Using zFeeder for free Blog syndication using PHP

Dominic Sagolla shows us how to easily use zFeeder and broadcast a free Blog system in PHP.

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Add Flash to Your .NET WinForms to Create Skinable UIs

One of the most powerful uses of Flash today is to create more power user interfaces for conventional software, such as client-server applications. This article is a great introduction to Flash for .NET developers who want to take their WinForm designs to the next level.

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ASP.NET File Uploading

After some theory, this article will present a file upload and download utility you can use to manage files on your server. You can download all of the files for this article, including the image files...

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How to get Real IP of user that Online via Proxy with PHP

This article will show how to detect real IP from client with PHP. With this little code we can detech user real IP. Let try. Read More