Pete Freitag's HomepageCovering ColdFusion, Java, Web Development, and other topicsDear SQL Server Enterprise Manager Developer- July 31, 2008 Please add a button to make a column an identity.You have a button to set as primary key, why do we have to scroll down through 34 of the properties, click the plus under "Identity", and then choose "Yes" for such a common operation Thank Youhttp://www.petefreitag.com/item/679.cfm PostalMethods - Web Service for Snail Mail- July 27, 2008 I just noticed PostalMethods a new SOAP web service API for sending snail mail via the US Postal Service. This service is from the folks at InterFax who have a nice web service for sending Faxes as well. It was nice to see that they have code samples for ColdFusion! Some potential uses for this new service: Mailing Address Verification - you can send an automated letter with a personalized code, and have them enter in the code to your web site. Security Nofications - You can send a letter to..http://www.petefreitag.com/item/678.cfm Mastering CFQUERYPARAM- July 24, 2008 If you haven't been using the cfqueryparam tag, chances are you had a baptism by fire this week. As you may have heard, lots of ColdFusion powered sites were targeted by hackers using SQL Injection this week. Fortunately SQL Injection is very easy to prevent in CFML using the cfqueryparam tag, and many people have pointed out some of the simple use cases for the tag. But there are a few cases where you can't use the cfqueryparam tag. In those cases, ColdFusion might throw an exception that...http://www.petefreitag.com/item/677.cfm Google Code Search for ColdFusion- July 14, 2008 Google's code search engine has been updated with an outline view that shows hierarchy of Java, C, C++, C, Python, JavaScript and Pascal source files. You can also filter searches by language, for example if you just wanted to search for ColdFusion code you can add: lang:coldfusion to your query.http://www.petefreitag.com/item/676.cfm |