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November 5th, 2006 | Posted in ColdFusion, Tutorials
Recently I needed to use Verity’s Spider (Vspider) to crawl my dynamic website to create a collection that could then be searched. I was able to find useful information here and there but not just one place that had all the answers. I’m not going to pretend to have all the answers, but hopefully you will find this beginning-to-end tutorial of making a dynamic site searchable using Vspider helpful.
The last several versions of ColdFusion have shipped with a 3rd-party indexing engine called Verity. Creating standard Verity collections is covered in most ColdFusion books in great detail. The standard indexing is great if you have static .html or .cfm pages but what if you have pages that are mostly database driven? »
June 20th, 2005 | Posted in ColdFusion, Tutorials
In a recent discussion about an upcoming project, the idea of “reaching beyond the browser” came up. We wanted to provide students (our target audience) with an avenue to provide feedback in addition to the web. After our meeting we had two questions to answer: What was the best way to provide interaction to mobile devices, and what could we use in our current infrastructure that would allow us to talk to mobile devices?
The answers were SMS (Short Message Service) and ColdFusion MX 7. Thanks to the awesome Macromedia MAX conference in November, I was aware that ColdFusion MX 7 was going to include a new Event Gateway that allowed a ColdFusion application to send and receive SMS messages. My next step was to set up a sample application, so our team members could see how it would work. »