Here are links to some recent Blackstone stories: eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1633483,00.asp InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/09/HNblackstone_1.html ServerWatch: http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3390611
Simon has been an active part of the CF community for a long time, it's good to see him blogging at http://www.horwith.com/.
Fuji Film's "Picture Your Life" site at http://pictures.fujifilm.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (it appears to be CF5). Another nice find, thanks to Peter Tilbrook for this one.
Last week I posted an entry entitled "Defending ColdFusion Against Java", and several of you e-mailed me to ask my thoughts on ASP and ASP.NET. I just posted three more entries in this series, and so that they are all linked, here are the URL's: Java:...
PHP is not one that comes up often, there is not a significant overlap between PHP developers and ColdFusion developers. But, in the interests of presenting the complete story, here is what you need to know. PHP is also script based, pages contain code which are processed by the PHP engine. The PHP...
Comparing ASP.NET to ColdFusion is difficult. Actually, it is not just difficult, it is simply incorrect, and not an apples-to-apples comparison. In order to defend ColdFusion against a "we are moving to ASP.NET" claim, you (and whoever is involved in the decision making) needs to take a big step...
Microsoft ASP has been an important player in web application scripting since, well, since a year or so after the introduction of ColdFusion. From an application development process viewpoint, ColdFusion and ASP are not that different. Both are script based, both are very page centric, both embed...
About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...
Spike Milligan has posted a blog entry on how to replace CF tag processing with your own functionality. Obviously, this is a dangerous thing to do (not that I would not do it myself). But having said that, this makes for interesting reading. See...
Macromedia will be hosting a MX Conference in Taiwan on November 9-10, and it looks like I'll be attending. I have no details yet, but will post them as soon as they are available.