Latest News from Michael Markowski

Test Driving ColdFusion 8

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:30:00 EDT

Of course, since this is ColdFusion I expected nothing less than this, i.e., powerful AJAX functionality combined with the simplicity of a tag-based language, and that's exactly what the Auto-Suggest AJAX component delivers. The code in Listing 1 is a simple example in which the auto-suggest attribute of the tag has been populated with hard-coded values. If you're running ColdFusion 8 yourself and want to get a firsthand look at this feature, you should be able to copy and paste the code from Listing 1 and save it as a new ColdFusion file. Figure 1 shows the suggested search terms displayed by the auto-suggest attribute as text is entered into the control.

CFDJ Feature — Create a Pseudo-dynamicWeb Site with CF

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:00:00 EDT

You have to love a software product that makes developers, even relatively inexperienced ones, productive quickly and empowers them to do seemingly impossible things. The more I work with and learn about ColdFusion the more it seems as if there are no limits to what can be done with it.

Use Flash Forms and Flex To Give Applications New Life

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:45:00 EST

I'm a Webmaster for the Air Protection Division (APD), EPA Region 3 in Philadelphia and in April 2006, I wrote an article for CFDJ entitled 'How ColdFusion MX 7 Made Me a Hero at the Office' (Volume 8, Issue 4). That article described how I harnessed the power of ColdFusion to improve access to our most vital business information.

How ColdFusion MX 7 Made Me a "Hero" at the Office...

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EDT

Let me begin by saying that I don't consider myself a ColdFusion expert. In fact, I didn't even write my first ColdFusion application until 2004. Nevertheless, ColdFusion MX 7 still has made me a 'hero' (as Simon would put it) at the office, and this is how it happened.