A few months ago, I developed a ColdFusion/Mach-II implementation of the reCAPTCHA API. This type of CAPTCHA requires the person to enter two words rather than a single sequence of random letters. In addition to protecting your website from spam, reCAPTCHA helps digitize text books. They do this by using a mystery word as one of the two words, until there is a consensus about what the correct answer for that word is.
Are you new to ColdFusion? Are you new to the Mach-II framework?
Do you often use the web to find solutions to your development needs?
Yes... Yes... Yes...
I have been writing software and web applications for quite some time. Every now and then,
I have the opportunity to work with a new language or structure. Today... happens to be one
of those opportunities!
I am new to Cold Fusion and Mach-II. I did what I usually do when I am working with a new
application: search the web for a solution or answer! I spent some time searching for an example
of how to retrieve information from a ContentService using SOAP. After a while of reading
numerous pages/documentation/blogs/etc., I realized that I was not going to find a specific answer
to my task. With some guidance, I was eventually able to piece together the code to retrieve and parse
the appropriate data from the contentservice API.
Hopefully, this code snipet will help you. Click below to see the code...
Many modern day websites (in addition to being a source of information for customers) are now providing applications to clients and employees in order to improve customer service and allow instant access to information such as current inventory levels, custom pricing and sales quotes. These applications built into the website for ease of access and “hands free” administration are the reappearance of a software architecture that appeared with the original mainframes.
Websites grow old and die for a variety of reasons, but most notably because site content goes out of date. Since visitors to your site equate the quality of your site with the legitimacy and credibility of your company, you want to make sure that the information you present is clear, concise, relevant, accurate, and up to date. Here at Sitepro, we make it easy to keep your content fresh.
Friendfeed is a feed aggregator that groups together updates from twitter, facebook, digg, youtube, your blog and much more. It can also publish entries from your friendfeed to twitter. This article shows you how to tap into that twitter publishing feature of friendfeed to automate the posting of your blog entries to twitter. Watch my screencast to create a seamless connectioin between your blog and your twitter account.
While the recession continues to batter brick and mortar stores, online sales are still pretty hot (in comparison). When gas prices climbed through the roof last year and no one wanted to leave the house – everything you needed was just a few mouse clicks away.
An American inventor, Charles Kettering, once said “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” Unfortunately even in an industry linked with incredible growth and innovation this saying holds true.
Recently on the Sitepro Blog, we have switched to using an enhanced commenting system called Intense Debate. Intense Debate provides many features that will supercharge the community, increase comments, and increase pageviews. Some notable features include commenter profiles, reputation scores, email notifications, reply by email, and facebook integration. Watch my screencast and read all about the awesomeness that is Intense Debate!
Last Thursday, a few Sitepro developers attended the Twin Cities Coldfusion User Group at University of St. Thomas. We were introduced to the future of Coldfusion, specifically Coldfusion 9. There was free admission, free food, free shirt, prizes, and an abundance of new Coldfusion features.
So just how is a website developed? Building a website may seem like an overwhelming process, but we make it as simple as possible by taking it one step at a time. The following outlines the 10 steps that Sitepro takes with each of our website clients. For us, it's a tried and true process.
