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Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's evangelist for the ColdFusion product line. He is the author of several books. |
Building an IM Bot Using
ColdFusion By Ben Forta  I recently brought a
Google Talk bot that I
put online at
cfdocs@gmail.com. Google
Talk users can add this
user to their buddy list
and then submit CFML tag
and function lookups to
it. (I've also brought
Yahoo IM and AIM versions
online as nickname
cflivedocs, but... May. 7, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 32,041 Replies: 4 | ColdFusion AJAX Tutorial
6: Editable Data Grids By Ben Forta Like the previous
incarnations of, the new
AJAX enabled HTML grid
allows data to be updated
right within the grid.
When it is used in edit
mode, column values may
be edited as needed, and
rows may be deleted.
Unfortunately, the
current implementation of
the HTML d... Jun. 26, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 13,017 Replies: 2 | Adobe ColdFusion 8 Tips By Ben Forta  Everyone is excited about
ColdFusion 8; the blogs
have been buzzing,
feedback has been superb,
lots of attendees
expressed relief and
gratitude at seeing such
a compelling ColdFusion
built in this new Adobe
era - no complaints, no
negative feedback, just
real enth... Jun. 13, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 22,946 | ColdFusion Helps
"finalsite" Power
Hundreds Of Educational
Sites By Ben Forta Since 1998, finalsite has
been bringing
cutting-edge web design
and web software to
leading independent
schools and organizations
around the world.
finalsite currently
serves nearly 200
independent schools and a
total of nearly 500
schools and educational
organi... Jun. 12, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 9,880 Replies: 1 | What's New In Adobe Flex
3? By Ben Forta Here is some more
information about the
first public beta release
of Flex 3 (now available
on Adobe labs), the first
major deliverable for the
open source Flex project
(including a public bug
base, and the beginning
of public nightly
builds). Some of the new
featu... Jun. 12, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 11,280 Replies: 1 | Get Your Fresh Adobe AIR By Ben Forta Adobe Integrated Runtime
(AIR), formerly known as
Apollo, is a
cross-operating system
runtime that allows
developers to use their
existing web development
skills to build and
deploy rich Internet
applications to the
desktop. And you can get
it right now on Labs. Jun. 12, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 13,501 Replies: 1 | Working With JSON In
ColdFusion 8 By Ben Forta There have been some
comments on other entries
here regarding JSON. JSON
is a data interchange
format, and is primarily
used as a way to package
data for use with AJAX
development. ColdFusion 8
(aka Scorpio) adds
support for JSON in
several ways. Jun. 4, 2007 10:45 PM Reads: 13,024 Replies: 1 | ColdFusion AJAX Tutorial
1: Auto-Suggest By Ben Forta I plan to post a series
of examples demonstrating
how to use the new Ajax
functionality in
ColdFusion 8 (many based
on examples used during
our recent usergroup
tour). The first one I'll
start with is the
auto-suggest control.
Auto-suggest is a
modified text input... Jun. 4, 2007 10:45 PM Reads: 18,112 Replies: 1 | ColdFusion AJAX Tutorial
2: Related Selects By Ben Forta Many of us have built
related select controls,
forms with two (or more)
drop down controls, where
making a change in one
control causes the
available selections in
the related control to
change. For example,
selecting a category in
one control displays
category pr... Jun. 4, 2007 10:45 PM Reads: 11,639 Replies: 1 | Multi-Threaded
Application Development
In ColdFusion 8 By Ben Forta ColdFusion MX7 introduced
the ability to
asynchronously spawn
ColdFusion requests using
an event gateway. While
many take advantage of
this capability, it has
some significant
limitations, the biggest
of which is that threads
can only be spawned,
there is no way t... Jun. 2, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 10,989 Replies: 2 | Getting Started With The
ColdFusion 8 Debugger By Ben Forta After a 7 year hiatus,
ColdFusion once again has
an interactive debugger,
and this time it is built
on top of Eclipse (and
uses the same debugging
interface as Flex
Builder, and other
Eclipse plug-ins). If you
are interested in taking
the debugger for a spin,
here... Jun. 2, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 9,308 Replies: 1 | ColdFusion 8 -
GetDriveInfo() UDF
Powered By .NET By Ben Forta This is an example that I
used when demonstrating
ColdFusion 8 .NET
integration on the recent
usergroup tour, and as
requested, I am posting
it publicly.
GetDriveInfo() returns a
query containing
specifics about the hard
drives on your server, it
returns all drive... May. 31, 2007 08:30 AM Reads: 8,335 Replies: 1 | Installing ColdFusion 8
Eclipse Extensions By Ben Forta The ColdFusion extensions
for Eclipse include RDS
panels, a Services
Browser panel, a CF Log
Viewer, RDS support,
help, wizards, and of
course the interactive
debugger. These
extensions are available
for download along with
ColdFusion 8 and will be
distributed wit... May. 30, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 9,497 Replies: 1 | ColdFusion Blog - Scorpio
and Apache Derby By Ben Forta So what does this have to
do with ColdFusion? Well,
Jason Delmore mentioned
this in passing at
cf:Objective (and few
picked up on it), but we
plan to include Apache
Derby in ColdFusion
Scorpio. The practical
implication of this is
that if you have to
distribute an... May. 29, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 7,377 Replies: 1 | Scorpio Makes Obtaining
Database And Table Info
Easy By Ben Forta This is a feature first
demonstrated in CT
yesterday, a new tag in
Scorpio named which does
just that, it returns
information about
databases (and data
sources, and tables, and
columns, and stored
procedures, and more).
This first code snippet
shows how to obtain ... May. 16, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 6,731 Replies: 2 | Ben Forta's Blog -
Scorpio Presentation in
New York City By Ben Forta One of the Scorpio
features that we've been
demoing to wide acclaim,
is the increased control
and flexibility in
managing ColdFusion
Administrator Access and
RDS access. In ColdFusion
today, there is a single
password for each of
these features, and a
user with th... May. 15, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 7,303 Replies: 1 | Ben Forta's Blog -
Scorpio File I/O
Enhancements By Ben Forta At one of the usergroup
sessions this week
someone asked if there
was a way to get file
information (size, date
time, etc.) easily using
a function. I said they
should use, but
afterwards remembered
that we did indeed add a
new function to Scorpio
called GetFileIn... May. 13, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 9,658 Replies: 1 | The FLEXifier Is Live By Ben Forta Amidst the hustle and
bustle leading up to MAX,
I managed to steal some
time to work on a
skunkworks project. The
idea was to let people
experience the fun and
instant gratification of
Flex, without needing to
download and install
anything at all. And thus
The FLEXifier. Oct. 30, 2006 06:30 AM Reads: 11,018 Replies: 1 | MAX 2006: Day 1 Roundup By Ben Forta The opening keynote was
superb, definitely one of
our more exciting
keynotes, and without a
doubt the loudest. After
several 'let's tease Ben'
segments courtesy of
Kevin and Shantanu, I got
to present two segments.
The first concentrated on
ColdFusion. I talked
ab... Oct. 25, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 10,542 Replies: 1 | A Couple Of New Adobe
Bloggers You Should Know
About By Ben Forta Marcel Boucher is the
Product Manager in the
Technical Marketing Team
for the Adobe Enterprise
and Developer Business
Unit (whatever that
means!). In practice,
he's a hardcore techie
who has been with Adobe
for a decade or so, has
been involved with
LiveCycle for ... Aug. 22, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 9,087 Replies: 3 | Top 10 Reasons to Attend
MAX 2006 By Ben Forta  It's been more than half
a year now since
Macromedia and Adobe
combined, and during this
time we've been hard at
work leveraging the
strengths of each of
these companies to forge
the new Adobe. One of
Macromedia's greatest
strengths was its user
community and the ... Aug. 21, 2006 07:15 PM Reads: 15,745 Replies: 3 | Favorite Flex Builder
Shortcuts By Ben Forta I've been spending quite
a bit of time in
FlexBuilder lately, and
have started to rely
extensively on some
shortcuts. Some of these
are actually Eclipse
shortcuts, but
regardless, these are
some of my favorite: Jun. 9, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 31,270 Replies: 1 | WHIR: OHL Online Draft
Powered By AJAX,
ColdFusion And Oracle By Ben Forta Web Host Industry Review
is running a story about
how 'minor league hockey
organization the Ontario
Hockey League has begun
conducting its draft
online through an
interface resembling
those used in many online
fantasy sports pools.' As
per the story, the
applicati... May. 31, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 7,524 Replies: 2 | Spry AJAX Library
Available On Labs By Ben Forta Spry is a JavaScript
framework for creating
AAJX applications, a
library that makes it
easy to incorporate XML
data into HTML pages
using HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript. Want to learn
more? Paul Gubbay has
written an introduction
to Spry. Spry examples
are posted on La... May. 11, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 7,325 Replies: 1 | Flex Beta 3 And
ColdFusion 7.0.2 Beta
Released By Ben Forta Flex beta 3 is now
available for download
from Adobe Labs. Download
new versions of Flex
Builder, Flex Data
Services, Charting, Flash
Player, the
ColdFusion/Flex
connectivity bits, and
the sample applications.
The ColdFusion updater
updated ColdFusion to
7.0.2. ... May. 10, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 16,270 Replies: 5 | Free Flex, Get Your Hot
Fresh FREE Flex! By Ben Forta In Flex 2 this all
changes. A server is no
longer needed to actually
serve Flex requests. You
may in fact want a server
(Flex Data Services), but
it is not actually
needed. In Flex 2 you can
write your code (MXML and
AS) and then compile it,
generating a complete SW... May. 10, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 14,364 Replies: 2 | Public Deployment Of Flex
2 Apps Requires Beta
Flash 8.5 Player By Ben Forta We're being really open
with the Flex 2 beta.
Anyone can download the
bits from the Labs site,
and you are free to share
the MXML/AS code you
write and even deploy the
Flex 2 apps that you
create. Just keep in mind
that in order to execute
your apps, users will
ne... May. 10, 2006 09:45 AM Reads: 13,513 Replies: 6 | Flex Developer Derby
Deadline Extended By Ben Forta The Flex Developer Derby
is your chance to write
cool Flex code and win
sweet prizes (six chances
to win a Xbox 360 and a
42' plasma TV to use it
with). The deadline for
the contest has been
extended to May 31st -
more time for you to
create one of the winning
entries! Apr. 19, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 7,099 Replies: 3 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: RSS Filtering Via
Feed Rinse By Ben Forta This one is intriguing,
Feed Rinse allows you to
define your RSS feeds,
define filters, and then
access a single filtered
RSS feed. Mar. 28, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 10,815 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: ColdFusion Flash
Remoting Configuration in
Flex 2 Beta 2 By Ben Forta Several of you have
contacted me with
problems using Flex beta
2 to connect to
ColdFusion via Flash
Remoting. A couple of the
issues turned out to be
configuration problems in
flex-enterprise-services.
xml (installed under
WEB-INF\flex, and needed
by the Flex compi... Mar. 23, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 13,728 Replies: 6 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: ColdFusion Flex
Enterprise Services Based
Session Tracker Online By Ben Forta One of the examples that
I have been using in my
user group presentations
is a ColdFusion Session
Tracker. This application
uses Flex Enterprise
Services to push real
time session details to a
connected Flex client. Mar. 1, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 14,745 Replies: 3 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: ColdFusion Flex 2
Sample Application By Ben Forta I have posted a sample
ColdFusion powered Flex 2
application to Adobe
Labs. The Phone Selector
application is a very
simple example of a
ColdFusion powered Flex
application. This sample
application is
deliberately small and
highly focused so as to
demonstrate Cold... Feb. 1, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 13,742 Replies: 2 | Event Gateways By Ben Forta; Sheldon Sargent  ColdFusion MX 7 has some
exciting new
functionality but the
most important and
revolutionary of these
new features, hands down,
is the event gateway.
Event gateways are to
application server
environments what the
CFQUERY tag was to
database interaction. Jan. 28, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 23,559 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: User Group
Presentations In February
And March By Ben Forta It looks like I am going
to get the opportunity to
present to user groups
all over the U.S. in
February and March. The
subject will be Flex 2,
with an in depth look at
what this means for us
ColdFusion developers,
and will include coverage
of Flex Builder 2 as well ... Jan. 17, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 9,921 Replies: 4 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: ColdFusion And SQL
Server 2005 By Ben Forta Several users have wanted
to know if ColdFusion
supports SQL Server 2005.
And the answer appears to
be yes. I am using
ColdFusion MX 7.01 with
the default SQL Server
driver, and am connected
to SQL Server 2005, and
so far so good. Microsoft
does have a new SQL
Ser... Jan. 10, 2006 07:45 PM Reads: 11,396 Replies: 2 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: CNet News.com
Sensationalism And
Fearmongering, Part II By Ben Forta 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
undou... Jan. 6, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 11,767 Replies: 1 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: CNet News.com
Writers Demonstrate
Desire For Sensationalism
and Poor Technical
Understanding By Ben Forta The text reads: 'agencies
are prohibited from using
persistent cookies or any
other means (e.g., web
beacons) to track
visitors' activity on the
Internet'. It does not
prohibit all persistent
cookies, only those used
to 'track visitors'
activity on the
Internet'. ... Jan. 5, 2006 09:00 PM Reads: 13,262 Replies: 4 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: Check Out
FusionReactor By Ben Forta FusionReactor is a really
powerful add-on for
monitoring, debugging and
performance tuning your
ColdFusion applications
and servers throughout
the development, testing
and production cycle. It
lets you look inside
ColdFusion and take
action when there are
problems... Jan. 3, 2006 06:00 PM Reads: 12,053 Replies: 3 | Ben Forta's ColdFusion
Blog: SQL Injection
Attacks, Easy To Prevent,
But Apparently Still
Ignored By Ben Forta 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 adde... Dec. 21, 2005 06:15 PM Reads: 25,737 Replies: 3 | CIO Magazine Misses The
Point On ColdFusion Based
Web Services By Ben Forta CIO Magazine ran a story
on Web Services last
month. The story is
presented as a quiz
entitled 'Are You Ready
For Web Services?' with
12 multiple choice
questions, each with
answers worth from 0 to 5
points. I have issues
with a few of the
supposed right answers, ... Dec. 14, 2005 08:15 AM Reads: 8,026 Replies: 2 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | Progress Software to
Acquire IONA Technologies By SOA World Magazine News Desk Varun Dube wrote: Hi,
I saw this coming. Most
SOA product vendors were
busy strengthening there
core SOA stack and SOA
quality and operations
were totally ignored
areas. I had in my post
predicted that increasing
awareness amongst
customers would spark
another wave on
consoli... | | AJAX and Enterprise RIA
Tools - JSF, Flex, and
JavaFX By Max Katz Michael wrote: As
Photoshop and Co can
export to JavaFX this
would be really
interesting in Xara 4 ,
as it is my prefered
program. Are there any
plugins or is it coming
from Xara itself in the
near future?
hopefully! I'm
interesting too who needs
that ....
yours
Michael | | Consolidated Disaster
Recovery Using
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk Karen wrote: We're
praying that the right
decisions will be made.
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om | | Opinion: Give ColdFusion
Some Room to Breathe By Andrew Powell Kai Tischler wrote: Hello
Andy !
I have just recently
rediscovered the possible
value of "ColdFusion on
Java"; and now we have
also "CF Groovy" at our
disposal ...
My question is really:
You mentioned that You
use Java for domain
modeling; how do You do
this concretely in a
"... | | EnterpriseDB Recruits New
CEO from Red Hat By Maureen O'Gara Bob Zurek wrote: Andy has
done a terrific job as a
leader, co-founder and
president / ceo to drive
success of the company
during its 4 years and
phases of development.
The commentator that
describes people as
"idiots" and
"incompetent" under some
bogus name deserve no
respect. Give me a break! |
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