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Installing ColdFusion on Windows 7 with IIS 7

I have got some problems while installing ColdFusion 8 and configuring IIS7 on my Windows 7 machine. Luckily I got it solved immediately after reading the solution at the web about configuring IIS 7 to work with ColdFusion by Dale Fraser, Paul Kukiel and Sameer Gupta. I don't know why this problem is not yet taken care by Adobe and I heard even with ColdFusion 9 the problem is still exists. Let's hope Adobe will fix this issue with the upcoming ColdFusion 9 Update 1.

Adding Highslide JS to BlogCFC

This post is to show how simply we can add Highslide JS to your blogCFC blog in a 4 simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image, media and gallery viewer library and its free only for Non-commercial use more details are at Highslide site read it before you start using in your blog. Highslide will be very useful in placing full size images at your blog without worrying about your blog layout size or width. Here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC blog.

Navicat MySQL Database Editor

I tried and used some database administration tools for MySQL but I feel like something was missing in its features. Recently I started using Navicat for MySQL database management which is really awesome and having many features which will be used to solve and manage your database with a very minimal amount of time.

ColdFusion Builder: New CFM and CFC File Settings

ColdFusion Builder provides a new option for us to set default contents in our newly created CFM and CFC files. Like code snippets this features will be helpful to place some standard code that we normally used in the CFM files like comment code block or HTML code blocks.

ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 Available on Adobe Labs

ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 is now available at Adobe Labs. This release includes many new features and one of my favorite is AIR Application development support. Some of the new features included with this release are as follows.

  • Code Assist for ColdFusion ORM
  • Enhanced SQL Editor
  • AIR application development
  • Support for ExtJS 3.0 libraries

So don't wait to grab your copy. ColdFusion Builder Rocks!

CFWheels and ORM

Object Relation mapping is one of the key feature in CFWheels. CFWheels makes things easier to start using ORM in your applications. The ORM configuration in CFWheels is implemented by creating a mapping between a database table and ColdFusion component in your application. To demonstrate ORM feature lets create a simple use case that list the available categories in a table with edit and delete links along a with add new category option.

Installing CFWheels 1.0

ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0 a production ready version hits the web today. To be frank I haven't tried it before and just want to understand its specific features over the other frameworks available for ColdFusion. So I have downloaded and installed it in my system. It's really simple to install CFWheels without worrying about setting any configuration variables that's one of its features as well. So without delay here is the simple 3 steps installation of CFWheels 1.0 framework in Windows with IIS.


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