Christian Thompson is a certified advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX developer. He is a senior software engineer for Inserso, a technology consulting firm headquartered in Annandale, VA, where he has specialized in ColdFusion application development for over two years.
I read somewhere that when faced with a task that takes one hour to do
manually, or one hour to automate, a good programmer will choose to automate
the process. As ColdFusion developers, we often face this decision when we
need to programmatically use data contained in a text file.
There are two ways to access this data - automating the process by parsing
the text file or manually inputting the data. This article presents some
basic techniques that can help you make the choice to be a "good programmer"
by automating the process.
Bulk upload and data import are the two primary types of functionality in
which text file parsing is used in Web application development. The main
difference between these two is the format of the text file being parsed.
Bulk upload functionalit... (more)
Don't reinvent the wheel." We've all heard, and perhaps uttered, this maxim
many times during our programming careers. ColdFusion MX has introduced new
features to help CF developers avoid reinventing the wheel, including
tag-based user-defined functions (UDFs) and ColdFusion components (CFCs).
As more CF developers begin to use these features, more code will be
available for other develo... (more)
Christian Thompson is a certified advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX developer. He is a senior software engineer for Inserso, a technology consulting firm headquartered in Annandale, VA, where he has specialized in ColdFusion application development for over two years.
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