Bruce Van Horn

Greetings. I hope all of you who attended the DevCon last month enjoyed it, and came away with some great tips and tricks. This month's column is short, but hopefully addresses some problems that you've encountered recently. Keep those questions coming! Q: I have an application that allows users to upload newsletter articles into a database memo field (I'm using MS Access for my database). My problem is this: when I query the articles from the database and output them using CFOUTPUT, some of the really long articles are getting truncated. I've double-checked, and all of the text is in the database, so CF is cutting it off either in the query or during output. Any ideas? A: Yes! The problem is not with your database or with your output. The problem is actually with the wa... (more)

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Can you believe it's December already? 2002 was certainly a year of big changes for many CFers as Macromedia released the new MX products. Many of us scrambled to come up to speed on the new changes in CFMX. However, the fundamentals of CF programming didn't really change. The newcomer to CF still has to learn the basic CF tags, functions, and logic that were in previous versions before ... (more)

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Two questions I received this month made me realize just how often we overlook the power of Lists and the many List functions in CF. Many times, we look at a string or other piece of data and don't even realize that what we're looking at is actually a list. Once we realize that something can be treated as a list, CF gives us many ways of using or manipulating that data. Here are two perfe... (more)

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Wow! Can you believe it's June already? The last few months have been blurred by the flurry of excitement around the new MX products announced and released by Macromedia. As you'll see from the first question, I'm very excited about the new CFMX product. I know you'll like it once you give it a spin. I'd like to hear your comments and questions about it. Q: I've been hearing a lot of tal... (more)

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Thanks to all of you for reading this column every month and for sending in questions. Whether or not they get printed, keep 'em coming! I enjoy the interaction and trying to help solve your CF problems. This month I have room to address only two questions. Both of them, I think, are important to every CF developer out there. So here we go! Q:You mentioned in your FastTrack to CF class how... (more)