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Top Ten Things I learnedAt CFNorth in Toronto
  • By Rick Mason, SeedChoices.com

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The web of today is about browsing, the web of
tomorrow is about doing
  • From Jeremy Allaires presentation

3
Learn to master CFComponents
  • Learn four new tags
  • CFComponent, CFFunction, CFArgument and CFReturn
  • Save it as a .CFC file instead of .CFM
  • Call a CFComponent with CFInvoke

4
Create your own web services
  • Create a CFComponent
  • Add methodremote
  • CF MX automatically generates a WSDL
  • Post WSDL to uddi.ibm.com
  • Done

5
Working with Flash and ColdFusion
  • Rewrite your code as CFComponents
  • Call the CFComponents from your HTML pages
  • Site works as it did before
  • Recreate your HTML pages as Flash and call your
    CFComponents
  • Done

6
All about TinCan
  • Described as a media server
  • Video conferencing, white boards, collaboratively
    work with documents
  • Uses Flash and ColdFusion
  • Available this fall from Macromedia

7
QForms
  • Javascript form validation library for CF
  • Slick user validation with almost no code
  • Works with NS 3, IE 3
  • Very configurable
  • Free from Columbus CFUG manager
  • www.pengoworks.com/index.cfm?actionqForms

8
CF MX now has ActionScript Inside
  • Flash actionscript almost complete javascript
    clone
  • Need Regex? Now CF 95 Perl compatible
  • Flash coders can call cfqueries without knowing CF

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Focus on security
  • Hackers can append SQL to your URL
  • Use CFContent to download your source code
  • Post altered forms from their machine
  • Turn off javascript and view your hidden
    variables
  • With a username and table name from error message
    they can append a query to URL and learn password

10
Hot new product Blue Dragon
  • Compiles CF-5 code to java bytecode just like MX
  • For little more than cost of Pro you can call
    JSPs
  • Claims to outperform JRUN on CF MX code
  • Free beta available for download
  • www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.jsp

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Hot new product Adalon
  • Elegant wireframe tool
  • Comes with a template based CF code generator
  • Only template generates Fusebox flavored CF
  • Received strong endorsement from Hal Helms
  • Free beta at www.synthis.com
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