BlueDragon Blog
Here you'll find tips and information about making the most of BlueDragon, which offers several compelling implementation alternatives for your CFML applications. This blog was created originally by Charlie Arehart, who was New Atlanta CTO from 2003-2006.,He has since moved on to become an independent consultant but continues to answer comments raised in existing blog entries. BlueDragon continues, and you should look to the newer BlueDragon blog, from New Atlanta president, Vince Bonfanti, for more updated information.

December 2004



Tool Tip: For better windows file searching, use Agent Ransack

Sunday, 26 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-05
Ever need to find files in Windows? You may know about Windows (pretty sad) "file find" feature, or you may use Studio/HomeSite's "extended find" feature, but each of those has drawbacks. I learned of a great freeware tool, Agent
Category: Tool Tips
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage - Easier Site Spidering (and no localhost limitation)

Thursday, 23 December 2004 5:14 P GMT-05
If you've ever used CFINDEX to create a searchable index of files, you've probably lamented that it only indexes the content of files, which is fine for static files. But for web application filetypes like .cfm, .asp, .etc., you generally want to do
Category: BlueDragon Evangelism BlueDragon Coding
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage - ListToArray

Thursday, 23 December 2004 1:30 P GMT-05
Continuing the list of technical advantages BlueDragon offers (it's so much more than just another way to run CFML), sometimes it's the little things. Just the other day, someone on a list was complaining about how the ListToArray function would skip
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage - CFZIP

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 6:55 P GMT-05
Continuing the list of BlueDragon advantages I started yesterday, the next is CFZIP.  If you're weary of having to rely on custom tags and com objects to do Zip file processing (especially if you had to buy them), fret no longer. BlueDragon 6.2 (the
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage: Complete Error Pages Are Logged

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 2:47 P GMT-05
BlueDragon helps with a nagging problem of resolving errors. If you've not otherwise trapped errors (with site-wide error handling, CFERROR, or CFTRY), you know that a page full of information is written to the screen (in both BD and CF). In BlueDra
Category: BlueDragon Admin BlueDragon Evangelism
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage - Calling CFCs from ASP.NET pages

Tuesday, 21 December 2004 7:02 P GMT-05
As you explore the implementation of BlueDragon on .NET, you'll learn that just as CF and BD allow tight integration with Java components in their respective Java-based editions, only BlueDragon allows you to call a CFC from an ASP.NET page. Yep, you
Category: BlueDragon Evangelism BlueDragon Coding BlueDragon/.NET
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Charlie Arehart

BlueDragon Advantage - Dynamically rendering CFML from a variable (or database column)

Tuesday, 21 December 2004 6:03 P GMT-05
Some might expect that I'd lead the list of advantages with some of our strongest distinctions, but I'd rather start with some of the less well-known features that may intrigue the most CFML developers.Many developers have long wanted to store CFML i
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Charlie Arehart

Holiday Gifts for the Discriminating CFML Developer

Tuesday, 21 December 2004 6:02 P GMT-05
In the spirit of the season, I'd like to share news in the next several blog entries over coming days of a few "gifts" that New Atlanta is offering to CFML developers in the way of advantages that BlueDragon offers. Some are in the current
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Charlie Arehart