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 is without a doubt the favorite article I've ever written. I wrote it afraid I was going to become the active target for every high level CF Developer. That didn't happen thankfully. I remember the response being relatively positive.

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 follows the design pattern scheme of the previous one and focuses on Data Table Gateways. An interesting tibbit is that I would rip my articles out of the PDFs and write up these entries while watching the TV Show supernatural. I bet I got out of the habit when the season ended which is why these articles remained unposted for so long.

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.

In this article, I delved into some of the design patterns that a lot of ColdFusion developer's were starting to use, in this case data access objects. I don't have anything against design patterns but I often feel some of the proponents of design patterns pitch them as the answer to all your problems. In reality, they are just an approach to solve something and there is often a tradeoff for using one to solve a problem.

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 is one of my favorite articles; because I cover a lot of the cool things I had been doing in my own development, such as hooking CF up to a credit card scanner and a bar code scanner and generating bar codes. Around this time, CFDJ's publication schedule started to get more and more spotty. I didn't know for sure at the time, but it was probably starting to wind down. The publication world was starting to change, and magazines were not going to be the future.

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 look at the third party ColdFusion command line debugger, FusionDebug. Debuggers like this are a fantastic tool for programmers. I loved it when working with technologies that pre-dated my work with CF and I loved it when working with Flex. For some reason, debuggers never took a final resting place in my CF Toolset.

CF101 Archive: 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 is the second half of my article on creating an RSS Aggregator project. Later versions of ColdFusion made this project much simpler, I think by adding a CFFEED tag or something similar.

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 probably represents my first foray into Flex development, something I've done a lot of over the years. It's amazing to see how far Flex has come since being introduced.

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 was the first about building an RSS Aggregator, which I had coined MyFriends. As an open source project, it never took off. But, it was fun writing this article--and part 2 which came up 2 months later. The link to the aggregator software is still in the sidebar on my blog. I should probably remove 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.

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.