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Full CFScript CFCs Aren’t Yet Where They Need To Be

April 17, 2010

A few months ago, I blogged about my excitement about the role that full script CFCs could have in an MVC stack, particularly with CFWheels. Unfortunately, the CFScript part of ColdFusion isn't quite where it needs to be yet.

REALLY networking

April 10, 2010

The solutions for networking effectively all involve hard work, which most people are unwilling to do.

404 Error Handling in CFWheels

March 30, 2010

This is fairly simple, but I figured that I would share my approach for 404 error pages in CFWheels and see if anyone has a different/better way of doing it. This example demonstrates code used on cfwheels.org.

2 types of web developers

March 29, 2010

I've had this sense that there are 2 different types of web developers: artists and robots.

A rally cry for ColdFusion

March 25, 2010

I've seen people comment that Adobe needs to promote and advertise ColdFusion more heavily. I think that this is a problem.

The value of SEO

March 22, 2010

Paul Boag, a fairly famous web guy, claimed to not get the value of SEO. But when done properly, I'd argue that SEO can help.

Prototyping a service

February 15, 2010

As many fields, products, and services are becoming commoditized, it's become increasingly important to plan and implement a great customer experience. I've been learning a lot from E-myth and Adaptive Path about how prototyping can be an effective tool for creating a "wow" experience for customers.

FeedBurner URL design tip

January 6, 2010

In case you weren't aware, you can create a FeedBurner URL with forward slashes in it. I like this because you can design subfolders off of a main folder. Combine with MyBrand, and you have a rather intuitive system for feed URLs.

Best explanation of Gravatar yet

December 9, 2009

The beautifully-designed source code control site GitHub has the best explanation of Gravatar yet.

Using extra CFC attributes for documentation

November 12, 2009

Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML's GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for CFWheels.

About Chris Peters

With over 20 years of experience, I help plan, execute, and optimize digital experiences.