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CFUnited Podcast: Pete Freitag - Working with RSS in ColdFusion

CFUnited Podcast: Pete Freitag - Working with RSS in ColdFusion

Hosted by Christian Ready

Description

Adding RSS Feeds to your web sites and web applications is becoming more important every day. We will start from the ground up and explain what RSS is, and why it is important. Then you will learn how to build a RSS feed from scratch using your data. Along the way pick up several battle hardened tips and tricks for implementing standards compliant RSS feeds.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=285158

CFUnited Podcast: Tyson Vanek - Are You "Cashing In" on Caching?

CFUnited Podcast: Tyson Vanek - Are You "Cashing In" on Caching?

Hosted by Christian Ready

Description

The implementation of a well-planned caching strategy can make the difference between a scalable enterprise-wide application and an application that crushes under the weight of 3 or 4 simultaneous users. A good caching strategy should incorporate many facets of caching as they apply to ColdFusion application design and development. Whether caching simple rendered content/output or caching complex data objects and variables, the key to gaining maximum benefit is properly identifying caching candidates and the proper caching solutions. This session will focus on methods used for identifying application bottlenecks, further identifying cache candidates, and designing caching solutions based on those findings.

Podcast link: http://podcast.cfunited.com/index.php?post_id=285169