One of the recurring complaints heard during my trip to Brazil last year was the lack of local ColdFusion hosting. That has now changed. The local Macromedia team worked with LocaWeb, the largest hosting company in Brazil, who is now offering both ColdFusion 5 and ColdFusion MX 6.1 hosting. To...
To help ColdFusion developers better understand Flex and what it means to them, I have posted: A Breeze presentation at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_flex_and_coldfusion/. An article (containing both positioning and an example application) at...
MXEurope, originally planned for September 2004, has been rescheduled for January 2005. Details at http://mxeurope.org/.
Netcraft is running a story on how in March "the number of IP addresses with sites using ASP.NET has overtaken those using JSP and Java Servlets." But look at the graph seen on http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/23/aspnet_overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html. It definitely shows ASP.NET on...
I attended Spring in Athens, OH, today, driving down from Detroit the night before and back up again right after I wad done (about 300 miles each way). I attended last year's event and was impressed by the quality and professionalism, and this year was just as good (perhaps better, thanks to an...
I spent the day on the show floor at FOSE, the Federal Government tradeshow in D.C. Lots of ColdFusion interest (as well as interest in Contribute, Flash, Breeze, Flex, and more). For me, the most important part of all the ColdFusion discussions and interaction was the reminder that ColdFusion must...
"Application Design: Dynamically change state and city drop-down boxes with DHTML" by Thomas Ortega explains ColdFusion / JavaScript integration at http://builder.com.com/5100-6371_14-5168421.html. "Making ColdFusion thread-safe with cflock" by Andrew Grant provides a good introduction to locking...
I've just been involved in a long thread with an individual who wanted to better understand the relationship between ColdFusion and Flex. Apparently, this is still a source of much confusion as I was asked similar questions at a user group earlier this week. So, I went back through the entire...
I wrote this function for someone who needed to programmatically obtain a list of datasources and whether or not they could be verified. I've discussed the use of the Service Factory before, but this is another nice example, and so I thought it worth sharing. GetDataSources() returns a query...
ODBC access in Macromedia ColdFusion MX and higher is provided through the use of the DataDirect SequeLink Server software, which runs under the Windows services labeled ColdFusion MX ODBC Agent and ColdFusion MX ODBC Server. This new TechNote (at...