Michael Smith

I just got back from the "Powered by Detroit" (http://poweredbydetroit.org/) ColdFusion and Flash conference in Detroit Michigan on April 9-10. I arrived Friday morning in time for the User Group manager sessions and met some old friends and gleaned some tips on running my group (... (more)

All data-driven Web sites are potentially vulnerable to hackers, whether they are written in ColdFusion or another language. Fortunately, a few simple steps can make your site much more secure. 1. Have an Error Handler By default ColdFusion displays a detailed error message when t... (more)

The Verity text search engine is one of ColdFusion's great features although it is often totally ignored by developers. This article tells you how to use ColdFusion code to add the power of an internet-style Verity search engine to the front door of your Web application and cover... (more)

In this article we continue to look at what ColdFusion is and how you can use it for dynamic website creation. We cover using SQL to dynamically retrieve and display data from any database along with testing and debugging techniques. What is ColdFusion? In case you missed the pr... (more)

Editor's Note: With so many new programmers getting interested in ColdFusion, CF Advisor felt it was time to have more articles addressing the concerns of beginning programmers in ColdFusion, much as we had in Leon Chalnick's Essentials column last year. Michael Smith, the presid... (more)

In this article we continue to look at what ColdFusion is and how you can use it for dynamic website creation. We cover free text searching of both multiple files and databases using the ColdFusion Verity text search engine. Free text searching lets you look for words anywhere in... (more)

In this article we continue to look at what ColdFusion is and how you can use it for dynamic website creation. This article covers displaying and sending form-based and customized e-mail and looping control in ColdFusion. What is ColdFusion? In case you missed the last article tha... (more)

In this article we continue to look at what ColdFusion is and how you can use it for dynamic website creation. We cover all the different varieties of the loop tag and how ColdFusion makes list handling easy. What is ColdFusion? In case you missed the last article that introduced ... (more)

There's a new federal law, known as Section 508, that requires disabled accessibility to government Web sites. We'll explain what you have to do to comply, how ColdFusion can help (or hinder), and why 508 isn't a bad thing after all. Imagine Imagine you can't see and you have a f... (more)

Many of us have used the CFCONTENT tag that comes with ColdFusion to serve up files to browsers, but very few ColdFusion developers are aware that the CFCONTENT tag can be used in conjunction with the HTML tag to serve up graphics, such as JPEGs and GIFs. In this case, the ... (more)

In March (CFDJ, Vol.3, issue 5) we covered reasons to upsize your Access database to SQL Server and the tools you'll use to do it. Here we explain in detail how to copy data to SQL Server and troubleshoot your upsizing project. The IMPORT AND EXPORT data wizard (aka the DTS Wizard... (more)

If you're using ColdFusion with Access today, then it's likely you'll be using it with SQL Server tomorrow. Luckily, Microsoft has provided some tools that make upgrading to SQL Server a relatively easy process. You'll be surprised to learn how simple it is to upgrade and how eas... (more)

eWebEditPro from Ektron is a browser-based WYSIWYG editor that lets your Web site users create HTML content even if they don't know HTML. In this review we discuss why you'd need eWebEditPro, and point out some of its features and limitations. How many times have you brought up a ... (more)