Ben Forta recently wrote about the comparison of ColdFusion development and .NET development. Although non-programmers may think these two technologies are similar, they are by far different in comparrison. Read what he says here.

Ajax is basically asynchronous calls to the server using JavaScript and loads the data in bits and pieces as needed.

CFAjax is the AJAX implementation for ColdFusion. It makes coldfusion method calls on server directly from HTML page using JavaScript and return backs the result to the calling HTML page. CFAjax comes with simple to use JavaScript API and simple coldfusion implementation that marshals the response between your CF methods and HTML page.

Jacob Munson created an excellent CFAjax application that searches thru ColdFusion tags and functions. It uses the type ahead technology to guess what you want, as you type. Check it out here.

You can also find other CFAjax examples and downloads at indiankey.com.

Not only can you protect a portion of your site with usernames and passwords, but you can also verify case sensitive passwords. Here's how you do it:

login.cfm

login_process.cfm