CFJSON is used to parse text in JSON format and return matching ColdFusion objects, or the reverse. The nice thing about JSON is that it’s translates easily to javascript data structures. And it’s an excellent format for returning data to ajax calls.

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AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is not a technology, but an umbrella that combines several concepts to enrich user experience by allowing server interaction without refreshing the browser.

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CFEverywhere is a way of developing and packaging CFML applications to run on the web, from CD/DVD, USB drive or anywhere!

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ColdFish is a syntax highlighter for use within ColdFusion applications. It is fast, efficient, easy to use, and allows for easy customization of the color palette. It supports ColdFusion Tags, CFScript, HTML tags, Javascript, as well as comments in all o

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Currently there is support for Answers, Traffic, Weather, Search, Geocoding, Maps, Term Extraction, News Search, Contextual Search, Related Search Suggestions, Spelling Suggestions, Image Search, Podcast Search, Artist/Album/Song Search, and Local Search.

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The Java RegEx Utilities is a single component offering various functions which utilise the Java’s powerful regular expression features to provide functionality not available with standard CF (lookbehinds, function pointers, and so on)

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ImageCFC uses coldfusion’s buit in java libraries to enable image manipulation of PNG, JPG, and GIF images (though it cannot output GIF images). ImageCFC can watermark images, resize, scale, crop, etc, and requires no custom libraries to be installed on t

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This CFC lets you both read and generate RSS feeds.

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Short URL takes any URL then creates a random 6 character string and adds .cfm to it. When the link is clicked on onMissingTemplate receieves the URL, looks up the full URL and forwards the user to the full URL. Very similar to tinyURL and other services

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With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets,

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Turkle makes clear that this new experience of the self isn’t merely an alternative model of identity — it is also the basis for an alternative lifestyle. So long as we were attached to the old model of identity, she says, “the unitary self maintains its

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The ‘personal home page’ is a new genre brought into existence by that branch of the Internet which is known as the World-Wide Web. Personal home pages are online multi-media texts which address the question, ‘Who Am I?’. Since the Web is, amongst

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Vučković, Tanja: “ROLE PLAYING GAMES (RPG) SUBCULTURE” (pdf) Slightly revised version of the article published in Croatian in Students’ Journal for Humanities Diskrepancija, Vol. 4 (7/8), Zagreb: prosinac 2003, 31-42

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