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by djc | If you've spent a decent amount of time in the Web development field, chances are you've had to send out a 'mass mailing' of some sort at one time or another. When done manually, this can be an extremelly tedious task. Creating 'groups' of email address' within your email client is one solution, but what if a co-worker wanted to send an email out to the group of people as well? Obviously, this is a process which is screaming for automation. In the first section of this three part article, we Read More »

by cache_ | This article describes a unique feature on a Cobalt RaQ server that few RaQ users are fully aware of — a feature that allows for radically changing a site's architecture. However, this feature also presents a problem, which CGIWrap solves. Read More »

by bobdavis | Would you like to be able to develop multiple sites on your Macintosh and have all of the root relative calls for links, images, scripts, etc. work for all of them? Would you like to have all of the files for any particular site together under one directory? MacOS X with its Apache web server makes this pretty easy. You just have to make some changes in the NetInfo Manager and edit your httpd.conf file. Here's how to do it! Read More »

by cache_ | Developing your first e-commerce web site? This article will acquaint you with the hidden players and technologies that you'll have to deal with. Read More »

by joshua | ColdFusion has no built in method to apply masks to strings, instantly turning 1234567890 into 123-456-7890. This custom tag does just that. If you can improve it (for efficiency reasons) please contact me. This was just a quick fix that I thought I'd share. All the information is in the comments of the code. Read More »

by aardvark | Have you been asking yourself how we strip HTML tags in comments? Or how we create those nice code <textarea>s from nothing more than <pre> tags? Or any of a multitude of other questions? Well, fear not, we've tracked down Jeff Howden and held him captive until he's agreed to answer all our questions. Read More »

by easyrew | Have you been tearing your hair out trying to get Flash to "talk to" ColdFusion? Well, cancel your new hair-piece fitting and read on... Read More »

by pedrito | The web is growing fast. And peer to peer computing promises even faster growth of stuff we can access. And logically, the more stuff there is, the harder it becomes to find the particular stuff you were looking for. Metadata could be the answer. Read More »

by isaac | As a ColdFusion newbie about a year ago, I can distinctly recall the frustration of dealing with Microsoft Access database files which had been "locked" by the ColdFusion Application Server accessing Read More »

by djc | I, for one, will never forget the day a certain benchmark report from Mindcraft surfaced about a year and a half ago. It showed my beloved Linux getting smashed by Windows NT in file and web servi Read More »