Shahriyar Neman

Search functionality has become the status quo for all major Web sites. The typical search box/button found on home pages across the Net is considered the ultimate in user-friendly design: users type in what they're looking for and the search engine finds it quickly and easily. By applying the tips and tricks illustrated in this article, developers can augment the Verity search engine that's packaged with ColdFusion to create a more robust - and scalable - search engine. All it costs is a little time and ingenuity. ColdFusion Server comes packaged with the Verity search engine, a tool that makes short work of indexing, searching and retrieving information stored in virtually any format on Web and file servers. Yet the version of Verity included with ColdFusion Server provides only a limited subset of the functionality and features that are part of Verity's enterpris... (more)

Structurizing Your Database

Using CF structures to store data allows you to access individual records without querying a database. Until now, successfully implementing a scalable, high-volume site has entailed five basic principles: 1. Write tight, efficient code. 2. Use cached queries. 3. Set up a proper network architecture. 4. Use top-of-the-line hardware. 5. Implement a properly designed database. This article suggests a new alternative to cached queries (principle #2): for some sites, using ColdFusion structures to store database data may reduce the bottlenecks caused by excessive database calls, thus impr... (more)