April 26, 2005
Ian Turner, a Macromedia Director based in our U.K. office, will be speaking at the UKCFUG this Thursday. He intends to spend some time at the beginning of the meeting discussing the planned acquisition and what it means. Details at the UKCFUG site.
April 24, 2005
WANTED: Early successes using ColdFusion MX 7 REWARD: One free copy of ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition OR 5 free copies of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 will be awarded to all entries chosen. SUBMISSIONS: Please submit an overview of your early success with ColdFusion MX 7 to dgruber@macromedia.com....
April 20, 2005
Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion MX 7 is available for download, details at http://www.macromedia.com/go/fd71533. This Hot Fix is cumulative (it includes Hot Fix 1).
April 20, 2005
Today's SD Times News "News On Thursday" opened with a brief story on the Adobe Macromedia announcement, and included quotes by Macromedia's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch. The following is a copy and paste of the 3rd paragraph of the interview: He called ColdFusion and J2EE "the core DNA of...
April 19, 2005
The look of Flash Forms can be controlled using styles. To help fine tune style selections, I threw this quick and dirty form together. It allows you to set eight style settings, the results of which are immediately reflected in a sample button control. Note that I am using the setStyle() method to...
April 17, 2005
Since the announcement hit the wire this morning, the various ColdFusion related lists have been buzzing with rumors, speculation, and predictions. Of course, that is all they are, rumors, speculation, and predictions. I don't think anyone really knows what this means for any product yet, and it'll...
April 12, 2005
Canarias7 is a regional Spanish newspaper, and the online version is powered by ColdFusion MX 7 (running on Windows 2003, and using Apache and MySQL). The site uses CFMX7 form validation enhancements, improved XML support, new Verity functionality, and also uses CFMX7 charting. For an example, look...
April 12, 2005
I have just been informed that the Detroit ColdFusion User Group meeting tonight has been cancelled as the building has been closed due to a gas leak . I've been given the dates of the next meetings, and as soon as I know which one I can attend I'll post details.
April 12, 2005
I'll be speaking to the newly revived Detroit Area ColdFusion User Group this evening. And it just so happens that the Detroit Area Macromedia User Group is meeting this evening too (minutes from where the CFUG is meeting), so I plan to drop by that event as well. Details on the respective web...
April 11, 2005
Macromedia is the Platinum Sponsor of CFUNITED-05, and lots of members of the ColdFusion team will be present too (including Tim Buntel, Damon Cooper, Dean Harmon, Tom Jordahl, Mike Nimer, and myself) along with other Macromedians (including Christian Cantrell and Sean Corfield). (I mention this...