Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

I think I got tired of working with CF5; when CFMX and later had so many programming features (AKA CFCs) that made it a much more pleasant experience.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

Before CF Builder existed, a lot of CF Developers used CFEclipse. It was a free IDE and much more lightweight than Dreamweaver. This article focuses on my own experiences switching.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article talked about the theory behind how AJAX worked. At the time AJAX was a new thing. This got reposted by sys-con a year (and change) later, and I got ridiculed by a commenter because the article did not focus on his AJAX framework of choice. After 3-4 times back and forth with him; I gave up the discussion.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is about encrypting data in ColdFusion. It is standard stuff.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

I love to talk about business, and this article is one of those.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is a follow up to an article I wrote for the Macromedia site, that talks about consuming Amazon.com web services. This is primarily for searching their site. Back then I never would imagined that Amazon would be leading the cloud revolution like it is today.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is about using database views and stored procedures. I must have been doing a lot of database specific stuff in 2005; as a lot of the articles surround that.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is about approaches you can use to debug applications. This specific article is based off a case where I was having issues debugging a single client's app. I remember that day, and the bug. It wasn't ColdFusion's fault in that case, but the problem existed due to invalid data.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is about dealing with XML inside ColdFusion. Back then XML was not nearly as common as it is today. I feel spoiled using Flex and ColdFusion together; because the use of AMF allows to avoid a lot of the complexities that can come with dealing with complicated XML structures.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them.

This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site.

This article is about using ColdFusion to fill out PDF forms. I thought it was an awesome use case which would take the world by storm and change the way we filled out official forms. Sadly, that hasn't happened yet.