Matthew Woodward

One of the most powerful new features available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise that many ColdFusion developers might not yet be using is event gateways. Event gateways open up entirely new possibilities for ColdFusion and allow our ColdFusion applications to communicate with more or less any other Internet-enabled system even if the system doesn't communicate via the "traditional" HTTP protocol. CFMX 7 Enterprise ships with a few gateways to get you started, such as an SMS gateway for communicating with mobile devices, a directory watcher gateway, a socket gateway, a Java Message... (more)

What's an Object? An Introduction to OOP

On New Year's Eve, 2004 I declared 2005 to be the "year of object-oriented programming for ColdFusion developers," and since the year is approaching its final quarter it's a good time to focus our attention on OOP in ColdFusion and see how we're doing. Based on talking with developers both in person and virtually, reading blogs, and looking at some of the newer ColdFusion code that people... (more)

ColdFusion Developer's Journal Special "Frameworks" Focus Issue: Mach-II

It's all Simon's fault. We say this to all framework writers who, even now, are trying to recover from the task assigned them by CFDJ's editor-in-chief: provide an article and an implementation of the Macromedia Pet Market application in their chosen framework. Realizing that our first sentence might not serve as sufficient explanation for those weary framework authors, allow us to provi... (more)

Flex Your ColdFusion Muscles with Adobe Flex

(April 15, 2005) - In the beginning of the World Wide Web there was HTML, and it was good. HTML provided an easy, structured way to present data and images, and hyperlinks gave users access to other pages with the simple click of a mouse. As time went on, however, users demanded more and more from HTML, which led to the rise of Web applications. At first the users were pleased with the a... (more)