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Date: 2007-12-14

A Milestone for XBRL
This could be a milestone in illustrating the benefits of using XBRL for companies filing financial data.Last week, Microsoft submitted a Form 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comprising financial data for shareholders, using XBRL.

Date: 2007-12-11

When Is XML Not XML?
Here is a mystery for folks. I've updated my parsing engine for coldfusionbloggers.org. I'm using CFHTTP now so I can check Etag type stuff. I take the result text and save it to a file to be parsed by CFFEED.

Date: 2007-11-15

Caching CFCONTENT
A few days ago I blogged about a code review I was doing for another client. Yesterday I found another interesting bug in their code. (It is always easier to find bugs in other people's code.)

Date: 2007-10-16

Persisting With XML, Or Else
There are a few ways of persisting XML to a file, each with their pros and cons, that programmers may want to consider. Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr., of O'Reilly Media, penned a post on XML persistence and ways to accomplish it.

Date: 2007-09-25

Using Sitemaps And Verity
Not many people know that ColdFusion ships with a HTTP spider that integrates with Verity. Unfortunately, this spider will only work with localhost as a server.

Date: 2007-09-18

Categorizing Content With XML Taxonomy
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Date: 2007-09-14

Have You Validated Your Feed Recently?
When is the last time you stopped to think about the health of your feed? Maybe it's time to head over to the Feed Validator and ensure it's in peek performance.

Date: 2007-09-11

CFFEED Bug To Watch Out For
I've blogged before about how xmlFormat() is a bit buggy. While it will remove most characters, including "high ascii" characters in the range of 128-255, it will gleefully ignore other high ascii characters, for example, character 8220 which is the funky Microsoft Word quote.

Date: 2007-08-28

Ping Using XML-RPC In ASP.NET
Many blogs have the ability to ping different ping-services, such as Ping-o-Matic, Feedburner and Technorati, whenever some content is created or updated.

Date: 2007-08-10

Clearing Your SnipEx Cache & CFLib SnipEx Update
While working on some bugs in the CFLib SnipEx server, Mark Drew sent me a great tip on how to clear the cache in CFEclipse. Right now it is a manual process, but Mark will be adding a refresh option to the UI soon.

Date: 2007-07-24

XML & SGML Standardisation Framework
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.

Date: 2007-07-10

ASP.NET 2.0: XML Membership Provider
ASP.NET ships with a SqlMembershipProvider and a ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that makes user authentication and authorization very easy to implement, but for some reason those are the only membership providers provided natively by ASP.NET 2.0.

Date: 2007-06-26

Model-Glue & URL Consistency
Someone asked on the Model-Glue mailing list how to keep deal with keeping event handler names and URLs in views consistent, i.e., if they change an event handler name, how can they avoid having to change the string wherever it appears in links in their views.

Date: 2007-06-19

Dot Net Questions: Xml Reader Class
Xml reader and xml writer comes from namespace system.xml. These classes' help in getting data from xml documents, both of these classes are abstract base classes.

Date: 2007-06-12

Truveo Shows Video Search Upgrades
AOL's Truveo video search product should present developers and other users of the platform with better analytics and greater API performance.

Date: 2007-06-05

Spry, Apollo, & Remote XML Sources
So this is probably a 'Duh' type post, but I was curious how Apollo and it's "open" web browser would handle remote AJAX requests. As you know (or hopefully know), when doing AJAX requests your browser can only request AJAX data from the same server.

Date: 2007-05-25

Cf.Objective() - Recap Of Day One
Keynote - Jason - History of CF, themes for Scorpio, a little bit of each theme. New disclosures: RSS support (<cffeed>), <cfthread>. More to come in sessions over the weekend.

Date: 2007-05-07

Why Is XQuery Important?
The advent of wireless internet access has made web design a very complicated matter. Previously, all web browsers were created equal. HTML was the only language used to create web sites, and it was only possible to go online with a desktop PC.

Date: 2007-04-10

Business Rules and SDLC
Bhaskar Sharma of HCL wrote me a little while ago and asked about business rules and the software development life cycle (SDLC). He said that, as of now, they use a normal SDLC approach in which rules are either hard coded or manually written in an xml file with lot of...

Date: 2007-03-29

Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web)
Innovation in making data relevant to the one or two words that we type into a search engine is Web 2.0. Adding to the plethora of data is the advent of social networking, Ajax; shared apps across the back end internet cloud, there are already...

Date: 2007-03-21

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Date: 2007-03-20

Generating XML From A CFC? Watch For Whitespace
A friend sent in a question this weekend that confounded him to no end. He was generating some XML but kept getting an error in the browser because of extra white space.

Date: 2007-03-06

The Real Selling Point Of XHTML
Some years ago there was a lot of fuzz about the importance of the W3C XHTML standard. I've always been a firm believer of the standards and built every website to comply with them. But why?

Date: 2007-02-19

RSS Feed Tips To Help SEO
RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme.

Date: 2007-02-06

XML Code Comments: What, Why And How
During the years I've seen a lot of different ways of commenting code - some good and some bad. My personal favourite way of commenting code is by using the XML comment feature of C# and VB.NET, but the important part of commenting code is not how you do it, but what you write in them.

Date: 2007-01-22

ColdFusion / XML Query Style
At one point or another, whether it's an enterprise level website, or one of your own, you're going to have the burning desire to see how you can take advantage of what XML can do for your applications.

Date: 2007-01-09