Tim Buntel

The ColdFusion Administrator is an extremely powerful and easy-to-use Web-based interface for managing your ColdFusion environment. It provides scores of pages to configure data sources, server settings, Web services, logging and debugging, and more. Pretty much any aspect of your ColdFusion server can be controlled and configured by the administrator. That's a great feature of ColdFusion, but it does present some problems. In developing ColdFusion MX 7, we contemplated the challenges associated with providing a single way to administer the server and, as a result, decided to i... (more)

Creating Custom ColdFusion tags as DHTML Wrappers

On the one hand DHTML — the combination of HTML, stylesheets and JavaScript — has given us many new options to create low-bandwidth effects to enhance Web pages. And on the other ColdFusion has given us the power to bring database contents to the Web. What's best for us, then, if we want interactive, site-enhancing effects that are data-driven? A combination of the two, of course! But it'... (more)

Not Your Father's Charting

Since charting was first added to ColdFusion back in version 5, it has consistently provided a lot of customer feedback - both positive and negative. We listened to all of the comments and studied the long enhancement list. Developers are sure to be pleased with the number of charting wishes that have been fulfilled in ColdFusion MX 7. Charting isn't a new feature, but we've definitely g... (more)

Introducing the ColdFusion Enterprise Manager

Wouldn't it be nice to get all the high-availability and scalability benefits of a cluster of multiple servers without the need to purchase multiple machines? How about being able to manage a number of isolated, performance tuned applications on one piece of hardware instead of taking up many machines in your server room? ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition introduces the new Enterprise Ma... (more)