Tag Archives: ColdFusion

ColdFusion Ranked Among Best Application Servers

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Claude

Adobe ColdFusion has a long history. Originally introduced by Allaire, it was acquired by Macromedia, then became part of Adobe in yet another acquisition. ColdFusion version 8.0 was released in July 2007, featuring Microsoft .NET integration, integration with Adobe Acrobat forms, and enhanced performance. ColdFusion scored best with developers for its scalability, support and security. Continue reading →

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ColdFusion Tags for POI – Microsoft’s “Poor Obfuscation Implementation”

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Claude

Ben Nadel of Kinky Solutions has posted his latest work. He has wrapped the Apache POI API in a ColdFusion tag to help us create “authentic” Microsoft Office file formats. Now, the project contains more than just the POIUtility.cfc; it … Continue reading →

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BlazeDS: Flex Data Services Goes Open-Source

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Claude

So far the standard way of making data connections in Ajax applications has been over XmlHttpRequest, which requires clients to constantly poll backend servers. Adobe is taking advantage of the opportunity to open up a solid platform capable of providing … Continue reading →

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CFHTTP Trouble: Connecting to Web Services that Use GZip Compression

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Claude

Rob Gonda posted this today, which I had also experienced while attempting to connect to the Yahoo! Maps API. The solution in my case was to add charset=”utf-8″ to the cfhttp call.

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