Bruce Van Horn

I don't know about you, but February is going to be a very busy month for me. Not only is there plenty of CF work to keep me busy, but my wife, my son, and I are eagerly awaiting the birth of baby boy number two! Nevertheless, I have questions to answer and one revision to make o... (more)

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 ne... (more)

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 t... (more)

September means summer is over and we all get back to work or back to school. And for those of us who have been out of school for a very long time, I hope you always look for opportunities to learn something new. Send me your questions if you get stuck! Q:I have a CF Scheduler qu... (more)

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 on... (more)

This month we have three questions to consider. I like them all because they're very practical and applicable to many kinds of applications. I particularly like the third question about encryption methods because it gives me an opportunity to cover two undocumented ColdFusion func... (more)

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 so... (more)

Sometimes I take for granted just how cool ColdFusion really is! The other day one of my programmers asked me how to do what I thought was a fairly easy task. When I showed him the four lines of CF code he needed, he said, "ColdFusion rocks! It would have taken me 50 lines in PH... (more)

We're only two months into 2002 and it's already shaping up to be a very busy year for ColdFusion development. I hope you're experiencing the same thing. If so, don't forget we're here to help you with all your CF-related issues. This month I have two questions for you. Q: I'm wr... (more)

Before you read this article look at your calendar. That's right: it's December already! Where did 2001 go so fast? The first year of the new millennium was definitely not one of those "ho-hum-nothing-much-happened" years. It was a busy, exciting, turbulent, and tragic year for ... (more)

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, ... (more)

Q:   What's OnRequestEnd.cfm? A:   OnRequestEnd.cfm is the twin brother of Application. cfm. When the code inside a file named Application.cfm is automatically included at the beginning of every .cfm file in the same subdirectory (and any directory below, provided that there isn'... (more)

I hope that all of you are enjoying your summer and getting in plenty of R&R. If you aren't, I hope you have at least upgraded to the new CF Server 5.0. Not that this is better than a week at the beach, but it should certainly bring a little joy into your life because of some of t... (more)

We have some more good questions to tackle this month. We'll look at Client variables, a pesky CFMAIL problem, and ways to delete Session variables. Q:  Can you give me a brief explanation of the "Client" variable scope? A:  The Client variable scope is very similar to the Session ... (more)

Thanks again to those of you who have sent in questions or comments about this monthly column. If you'd like to see an archive of previous questions and answers, please visit www.NetsiteDynamics.com/AskCFDJ. This month we have only three questions to consider, but the response to ... (more)

Well it's April already! Can you believe it? If you're like me, you've got a full-blown case of "spring fever" and it's hard to concentrate on CF code. But spring is also a time for new projects and pressing deadlines. Don't worry. We're here to help. Just send us your questions a... (more)

It looks as if this month's column is all about functions. In the questions and answers below we'll look at RandRange(), ListLen(), ListAppend(), GetTickCount(), and the ever-elusive Soundex() functions. Q:I need to build a search engine for our employee directory that will return... (more)

My thanks to those of you who've read this column and let me know that it's actually helped. Even more thanks to those who've sent in questions - keep them coming! Here are some of the most recent ones. Q: I need to create a server-wide variable, not a session variable. It cannot ... (more)

Well, the new millennium is finally here (sorry for those of you who thought it started last year) and with it comes many unanswered and some unanswerable questions. Fortunately for you CF developers out there, your CF questions don't have to fall into the category of unanswerab... (more)

Well, the new millennium is finally here (sorry for those of you who thought it started last year) and with it comes many unanswered and some unanswerable questions. Fortunately for you CF developers out there, your CF questions don't have to fall into the category of unanswerab... (more)