http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/ Latest News from Christian Thompson en Copyright 2009 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:02:37 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41611 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.<p><a href="http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41611" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:00:00 EDT http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41611 http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41611#feedback http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41597 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).<p><a href="http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41597" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41597 http://christianthompson.sys-con.com/node/41597#feedback