June 6, 2005
Last week I mentioned that my new Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide was shipping. As with all of the Study Guides, this book has an accompanying preparatory exam that can be used to gauge exam readiness (or just for fun, kind of). That exam is now online and can be accessed...
June 5, 2005
When images are associated with database records, those images are usually stored on disk. The images are related to their respective records by storing their names in a table or perhaps by using the record's identifier as part of the file name. The advantages of storing images as files are...
June 5, 2005
This morning Macromedia announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation. The announcement referred to Zorn , the code name for an Eclipse based tool for building Flex powered applications. Eclipse is also of interest to parts of the ColdFusion community, and CFEclipse has a growing following. I...
June 4, 2005
Several of you wrote to tell me that several Breezos originally created for ColdFusion MX were no longer available, it seems that these got lost during Breeze server migration. I've reposted them, and here are the new links: Java and ColdFusion MX - The Marriage Of Power And Productivity When One...
June 2, 2005
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework, and it supports ASP, ColdFusion, Io, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby backends. Steve Smith of Ordered List has posted an update to the ColdFusion code to support POST variables (in addition to the already support GET...
June 1, 2005
Bookpool.com has my ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit on sale for $29.95!
June 1, 2005
The new edition of my ColdFusion Study Guide, Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide is now shipping.
June 1, 2005
CFAjax is an 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 marshal's the response...
June 1, 2005
This sent to me by Mario Rodrigues of Webauthor.com: DashboardXM is a web based individual productivity and organizational tool. It offers a modern desktop-like interface found in PC programs but with a 100% Internet based architecture. The framework is built in ColdFusion MX and utilizes a...
June 1, 2005
Steve 'Gus' Gustafson is now blogging . In his words: My main topics will be ColdFusion ( of course!), SQL, and Life as an independent contractor.