David Gassner

"It doesn't matter to me that you use my methodology," said the Fusebox expert sitting across from me at lunch. "What matters is that you have a methodology." And I thought back to my early experiences with ColdFusion... I developed my first ColdFusion application by the seat of m... (more)

There once was a mild-mannered XML packet with greater ambitions. One day I'll be presentable, it thought! I'll dress up as HTML - and as WML, and maybe, just maybe, I can turn into WDDX! Transformation looked scary, though, with lots of downloads, and installation, and really c... (more)

I'll plead guilty to having tortured more than my share of bytes into completely unnatural configurations. In the BX years (Before XML), if you had to share data with your business partners you might have represented the data in comma-delimited text files. If the data was too co... (more)

XML- it's here, and you have to deal with it. Whether you need to generate XML files to share data with your business partners, extract content from XML files, or transform XML into some other format... ...the ability to deal with XML has become a common requirement for ColdFusi... (more)

When working out data-sharing systems with an organization's business partners, you as a developer may be asked to send and receive data in a more conventional XML format. This may be because those partners prefer to speak more generic forms of the XML language. If so, there are ... (more)