We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...
This seems to be coming up more and more frequently, ColdFusion developers being asked to defend ColdFusion against a planned move to Java and J2EE. I now have three such messages in my inbox, and so I thought it worthwhile to share my response to this one. For starters, any suggestion of "we need...
A user e-mailed me to ask how to define JRun server instances as Windows services (so that they autostart). In case others need this same information, JRun comes with a utility named jrunsvc that is used for just this purpose. Documentation for jrunsvc can be found at...
Christian Cantrell blogged this one (http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/005679.cfm), America's Most Wanted has a new site up, powered by ColdFusion MX (on Windows, looks like they migrated away from Linux). Site is at http://amw.com/.
It is always good to know of high profile public facing ColdFusion sites, and this one fits the bill. E*Trade Financial is running ColdFusion (it appears to be CF5) at https://investor.etrade.com/investors.cfm. Thanks to James Simpson for alerting me to this one.
Australians Robin Hilliard, Andrew Muller, and Matt Voermanhave launched their new Macromedia Professional Services company, RocketBoots. And they are blogging at http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/.
Microsoft using ColdFusion MX? Is it possible? Actually, yes, it is! The Microsoft Office Live Meeting / PlaceWare site at http://main.placeware.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (the homepage is even named index.cfm). Some of the external links are to asp pages, but the core site seems to be...
ColdFusion developer Tom Kitta wrote to me to tell me about his freely available XML based ColdFusion powered guest book application. If you want a guest book for your site, go to http://www.tomkitta.com/coldfusion/gb/. Thanks Tom.
We're not yet officially accepting Blackstone beta applications, but Tim Buntel blogged the application URL last week (http://buntel.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ED6B51CA-4E22-1671-588F1BE8B0B89CAD), so what the heck ... To apply for the Blackstone beta ahead of the rush, go to...
As previously discussed, ColdFusion Blackstone is expected to feature an event gateway that will allow ColdFusion to respond to requests from sources other than HTTP. Sean Corfield has been playing with this feature extensively, and has blogged some details of his IRC gateway which allows...