Latest News from Christian Schneider

Developing a WAP Based E-mail Interface

Thu, 02 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

This article is about developing an application for wireless devices with WAP support. For this I've chosen to implement a WAP-based e-mail client. On the Web, using HTML, this is quickly done with ColdFusion. This should also be true for WAP, I thought. Whether or not it turns out to be true...well, just read on.

WIZML by Example - ColdFusion Studio Wizards

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 00:00:00 EST

This article is the third in a series on customizing the CF Studio IDE. If you haven't read the first two about VTML, see 'VTML by Example, Parts 1 and 2' (CFDJ, Vol. 3, issues 6 and 7) for an introduction to the CF Studio extensions, and learn how to use the Visual Tools Markup Language (VTML) to develop the user interfaces for CF Studio extensions. This article demonstrates how to design CF Studio Wizards using the Wizard Markup Language (WIZML).

Using XML Scalable Vector Graphics with CFML

Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:00:00 EDT

This article describes how to use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the amazing new graphic format, with CFML to create dynamic charts and diagrams. SVG is the W3C standard format for scalable graphics based on XML (see www.W3C.org). Yes, that's right, graphics based on XML.

VTML By Example

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:00:00 EDT

In Part 1 of this series (CFDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6), I explained how to easily generate the necessary VTML code for providing Tag Inspector, Tag Help, and Tag Insight features inside CF Studio for your custom tags. (Part 1 is available online at www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/archives/.)

VTML by Example

Thu, 07 Jun 2001 00:00:00 EDT

This article demonstrates how to customize and extend ColdFusion Studio's capabilities. Allaire has built lots of nice widgets into the Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to help developers wherever they can. And they did a good job, as you can see.

WDDX with JavaScript

Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:00:00 EST

This article demonstrates how to use Allaire's XML serialization technique, Web Distributed Data eXchange (WDDX [described at www.wddx.org]), to transfer CFML data structures from the server to the client, and into JavaScript and back. Generally WDDX's approach is to interchange data of all types (including complex data types such as nested structures, n-dimensional arrays, record sets, or even binary data) between different programming platforms.

Matching ColdFusion with Server-Side Java

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:00:00 EST

This article focuses on some interesting features of ColdFusion 4.5 and server-side Java. Introduced in ColdFusion 4 (and greatly extended in 4.5), the CF Server supports Java by providing three ways to access server-side Java with ColdFusion. (We're not talking about client-side Java, which is built into ColdFusion using applets, e.g., the CF tree applet.)

Instant Messaging for Your Apps

Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:00:00 EST

After my first article in CFDJ (Vol. 2, issue 8) - 'Live Monitoring of User Sessions' - I had some new ideas about using the session-tracking framework to implement a sample instant messaging application.

Another Custom Tag DHTML Wrapper

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:00:00 EDT

This article demonstrates how to write a paired custom tag that encapsulates complex DHTML logic into a simple-to-use tag. I was inspired to write by Tim Buntel's article about DHTML wrappers in CFDJ (Vol. 2, issue 4). It motivated me to extend a custom tag I had developed and used throughout my projects.

Live Monitoring of User Sessions

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:00:00 EDT

During a recent intranet project, I encountered the need for live reports of all currently open user sessions within an application.