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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)

Use the JavaMail API to Build an IMAP Custom Tag

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)