Browsing Directories on the Server via Flash Remoting
In early August last year I put out a Flash Remoting example app written for CFMX that emulated the Windows Explorer, allowing you to browse the drives of a server via a standard web browser. At the time I withheld the FLA as I wanted to spend the time improving on it, but in preparation for my presentation on "Data Visualisation with Flash Remoting" at MXDU I've dusted it off and have now decided to release it for other developers to have a crack at.

CFMX Developers get rid of "Show Friendly HTTP error messages"
I keep hearing people on one list or another banging their heads against a wall with things like, "This is driving me nuts. I am getting the "Internal Server Error 500" error page instead of a CFMX error page and debugging information". There is a really simple fix!

Top Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Open Web Application Security Project released a great summary of typical web application vulnerabilities. For many this "top ten" will be stating the obvious, but nevertheless it is a great check list for dev teams to sign off on prior to going live. What's more, take the time to download the PDF report.

Building RDF feeds in CFMX
I've spent some time playing with RSS/RDF XML this year playing with Fullasagoog.com. Recently, I released a series RDF feeds for the blogs fullasagoog syndicates to make life easier for folks with NewsAggregators and several groups who just wanted some of their blogs mixed into a single file. I thought I might take the time to show just how easy it is to generate XML feeds in CFMX.

Fullasagoog RDF Feeds Available
Have finally gotten round to re-syndicating the blended Goog blog feed as RDF. So now you can use a standard NewsAggregator tool to read Fullasagoog, or repurpose the feed to your hearts content. Feeds updated on the hour.

XML-RPC: Bloggerbot & MoveableType
Michael Gunn pointed me in the direction of this nifty blogging tool: hollowcube.com - talk: update your blog via AIM using BloggerBot. Thought I might point out that MoveableType can make use of any "blogger" interface 'cos its cool and has a bunch of programming interfaces for just such a thing :) XML-RPC: Simple cross-platform distributed computing, based on the standards of the Internet.

ColdFusion Function Reference for DreamweaverMX
The guys at the mysterious Mythic.com site have created a handy Dreamweaver MX Extension that adds the ColdFusion MX functions to the Reference panel. The help files were taken from HomeSite+ and were modified to work with the DWMX reference system. The download page was last updated 19-Dec-2002 so it may be old news to some.

Useful Bookmarklets for Web Development
Searching for a link to the MoveableType bookmarklet I stumbled across this fabulous little treasure trove of useful bookmarklets for web development.

FourQ CFC Content Object API (COAPI)
The FourQ project endeavours to build a content object application programming interface (COAPI) for use with CFMX CFCs. This custom, object persistence layer will also incorporate utilities for deploying and managing the content in the object store and provide an application framework for the development of content management systems (CMS).