ColdFusion methodologies for content management - Coldfusion tutorial

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This article will examine coding best practices for writing maintainable code, including consistent variable naming conventions, code structure, and comments.

Structures are everywhere in the ColdFusion world. As of ColdFusion 4.5, form, application, session, server, request, and URL variables are stored in structures. Allaire Spectra makes extensive use of structures and associative arrays.

Using SSL with the built-in Macromedia ColdFusion MX web server

Macromedia's Chief Evangelist for ColdFusion, Ben Forta, spent the spring and early summer 2004 previewing the next generation of ColdFusion to user groups throughout North America. The pre-release name of the product is Blackstone and has a host of features that will be of interest to new and veteran ColdFusion and Flash programmers. Some of the major enhancements are: Wizards and enhancements for new CF'ers, major enhancement to CFFORM (key phrase: type = "flash"), introduction of CFDOCUMENT, and improved reporting with CFREPORT and a report creation tool.

We all know that locking is important. Most of us even understand why locks are needed. But exactly where to use a lock, which lock type to use and what code to put within the lock remains confusing at best.