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. Jun. 16, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,122 Replies: 1 |
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 component... May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,878 Replies: 4 |







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.























