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ColdFusion 8 public beta chews bubblegum, takes names

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The world's first real server-side scripting language, which seemed to get quiet in its v5-v6 days, is back with a vengeance with the new ColdFusion version 8. Currently available as a public beta and due for public sale in a few months, the new release has a tonne of new features to get web developers in a tizzy.

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Web page attachments - download vs inline with ColdFusion

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Here's a quick tip that'll help make life easier for anyone who's trying to use ColdFusion's CFCONTENT tag to send content to the browser. When you're sending a file to the web browser using CFCONTENT you can do it either as an inline file, i.e. the browser will probably try to display it, or you can send it as a file to be downloaded. The only problem is that to do the latter you can't do it with just the CFCONTENT tag, you first need to tell the browser that you're sending a file and then send it, for example:

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Automatically link Redmine tasks with Subversion code

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Here's a really great feature of Redmine that I just love. When you are committing code changes in Subversion, if you enter an issue/task number preceeded by a pound sign, e.g. #42, when you view the repository in RedMine it will automatically link to the task number from the commit message. Very handy!

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phpBB3 is almost here

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phpBB, the open-source PHP forum application that seems to be responsible for more server security breaches than anything else, has hit a major milestone with the first release candidate of the forthcoming v3.0 release. In the v3 new features / improvements list it is good to see that security is highlighted as a core aspect of the improved version, so here's hoping it can get back its history as a running joke with web developers.

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