ColdFusion Studio 4.5 (and HomeSite) introduced a new split editor window - an option that lets you display and edit two parts of the same file at once. If you need to edit long files, or need to compare two parts of the same file, you'll find this option invaluable. To turn on split editor select...
For some reason typos and misspellings have become so common place on the Web that they are almost acceptable. ColdFusion Studio (and HomeSite) has an integrated spell checker (and can also use Microsoft Office's spell check if Office 95 or later is installed). Use this feature - either run regular...
is used to cache dynamically generated pages so that ColdFusion need not process them again unnecessarily, but that's not all it can do. can also be used to embed the necessary code instructing a browser to cache pages locally so that neither requests to the server or ColdFusion are needed. To use...
The tag is used to create persistent client-side cookies, but cookies need not persist if you don't want them to. The EXPIRES attribute is optional, and if you omit it cookies will only exist as long as the Web browser is open - as soon as the browser is closed the cookies will be destroyed. This...
If you ever need help diagnosing problems with dynamically generated e-mail, check out the Mail tab in the ColdFusion Administrator. There is a checkbox there entitled "Log all email messages sent by ColdFusion" - and checking this box will force ColdFusion to log the complete contents of the...
Many characters cannot (or should not) be used within your HTML pages. These include & (which must be specified as &), and
tags require that an image file name be specified in the SRC attribute - all other attributes are optional. But best practices dictate that other attributes be specified too, including HEIGHT and WIDTH (so that the browser can allocate the exact screen space before the image is retrieved)....
Lots of things have an impact on the performance of your applications, and the best way to monitor system performance (both in real-time and ongoing logging) is via ColdFusion's integrated performance monitoring support. If you are running Windows NT and 2000 then the standard Performance Monitor...
The tag is used to spawn an application from within CFML code, optionally capturing any generated output. can be used in two ways - ColdFusion can wait until the spawned application has finished processing (synchronous), or it can spawn the application and then continue processing immediately not...
Everyone knows to check that URL and FORM variables exist before using them, but too many developers refer to these variables in their code without first checking their contents. Many even use these in SQL statements or other tags without first inspecting them. This is a dangerous practice and one...