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January 6, 2006

ColdFusion Cookbook Is Up And Running

Ray Camden's new project, ColdFusion Cookbook is up and running. Check it out! (And contribute, too)!

January 5, 2006

CNet News.com Sensationalism And Fearmongering, Part II

Apparently CNet's News.com staff writers Declan McCullough and Anne Broache just can't resist the lure of sensationalism and fearmongering. After yesterday's blatantly inaccurate and highly inflammatory Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you (which undoubtedly generated lots of page views...

CNet News.com Writers Demonstrate Desire For Sensationalism And Poor Technical Understanding

CNet's News.com is running a story by staff writers Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache with the sensational title Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you . The key points of the article are: A 2003 directive makes it illegal for federal agency web sites to track user activity or monitor user...

CF Docs Bots Back Online

The CF Docs Bots were offline the past few days. Apparently, my serial number for JBuddy-CF expired at the end of 2005. I've updated the serial number, and the bots are all back online. Sorry about that. The addresses are unchanged: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com Yahoo IM: cflivedocs

ColdFusion User Defined Function: URLExists()

A ColdFusion user asked me for a way to programmatically determine if a URL exists, so I threw together this UDF. It uses to attempt to retrieve a specified URL (not resolving any internal URLs, and not throwing an error upon failure). If an HTTP status code 404 is returned then the UDF returns...

TMCnet: NSA Cookies No Big Deal, And NSA Uses ColdFusion

TMCnet has a story on cookie use on the NSA site, and explains that despite hyper and overreaction, the "It's much ado about little". And I quite agree. And buried in the story is a little note that stats that the NSA uses "Adobe ColdFusion to deliver its public Web pages".

Google Flight Searches

I have no idea when they did this, but, Google has gotten a little more intelligent yet again, this time figuring out flight searches. Do a Google Search for new york to san francisco or dtw to lax , and you'll be prompted for dates, and will be able to click to search Expedia, Hotwire, Orbitz, and...

SQL Injection Attacks, Easy To Prevent, But Apparently Still Ignored

I was just on a web site (no, not a ColdFusion powered site, and no I will not name names) browsing for specific content. The URLs used typical name=value query string conventions, and so I changed the value to jump to the page I wanted. And I made a typo and added a character to the numeric value....

Flash Forms Based Query Tool

Todd Sharp has created Genesis , a ColdFusion MX 7 Flash Forms based database query tool. This is a really nice utility, as well as a pretty cool demonstration of Flash Forms use.

Questions About My New MySQL Book

Here are some questions that I received about my new MySQL Crash Course . I am posting the answers here in case anyone else has the same questions: Does the book cover MySQL 5? The book was written for MySQL 4.x and MySQL 5, and most of the content applies to both. However, there are chapters that...