SeeFusion has been around for a while now, but I recently got the chance to take it for a spin, and wanted to share my thoughts. SeeFusion is a utility that lets you peak under the CF hood, allowing you to see lots of what's going on, and much of it in real time. I've previously mentioned that this...
Adobe is the Platinum sponsor of CFUNITED 2006 . I plan on attending, as do others on the ColdFusion team, and hope you do, too!
It looks like I am going to get the opportunity to present to user groups all over the U.S. in February and March. The subject will be Flex 2, with an in depth look at what this means for us ColdFusion developers, and will include coverage of Flex Builder 2 as well as new ColdFusion Flex...
I presented an introduction to Flex Builder 2 this evening to my local CFUG, the Detroit Area ColdFusion User Group . Some of the attendees had seen Flex previously, but none had actually used it themselves. This made showing it off both fun and easy. And to make things more interesting, I used a...
The TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2006 has been released. Java and C have treaded places for the #1 and #2 spots (Java is now in the lead), Python and Delphi are slipping, C# is on the rise, Ruby misses the top 20 by one spot ... and ColdFusion climbed from 25th to 16th (the biggest...
Several users have wanted to know if ColdFusion supports SQL Server 2005. And the answer appears to be yes. I am using ColdFusion MX 7.01 with the default SQL Server driver, and am connected to SQL Server 2005, and so far so good. Microsoft does have a new SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver in beta, but...
Yes, a new codename for a new update to ColdFusion. "Scorpio" (which Tim Buntel and I announced at CFUNITED last year) is still the next major version of ColdFusion, but we have some goodies up our sleeve that you'll really want sooner than that, and thus ColdFusion "Mystic" (as first leaked by...
Ray Camden's new project, ColdFusion Cookbook is up and running. Check it out! (And contribute, too)!
Apparently CNet's News.com staff writers Declan McCullough and Anne Broache just can't resist the lure of sensationalism and fearmongering. After yesterday's blatantly inaccurate and highly inflammatory Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you (which undoubtedly generated lots of page views...
CNet's News.com is running a story by staff writers Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache with the sensational title Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you . The key points of the article are: A 2003 directive makes it illegal for federal agency web sites to track user activity or monitor user...