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July 3, 2009

Potential ColdFusion FCKEditor Security Issue

Please read this post by the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team regarding a security issue caused by the FCKEditor included with ColdFusion 8.

First Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup

The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup will take place July 09, 2009, at the Adobe Bangalore office. ColdFusion engineering team members will present ColdFusion Centaur and Bolt. Details posted online .

Toronto Wraps My Usergroup Presentations

Last night I presented ColdFusion, Flex, and more to a joint meeting of the local Flex and ColdFusion groups. The group took a little while to warm up, but then really got going. The session ran over 2 hours and was highly interactive. Big winners were spreadsheet integration, ORM, Bolt extensions,...

ColdFusion Positions In Iraq, KS, and MA

Three ColdFusion positions this week, including one in Iraq: Vykin Corporation (company based in Florida, but position is in Iraq) is looking for a ColdFusion and Flex developer with secret security clearances for the US Department of Defense in Iraq. Requirements include ColdFusion and/or Flex...

Jobs

June 24, 2009

Presenting At Usergroup In Toronto Tonight

I am on my way to Toronto for tonight's usergroup presentation on ColdFusion and Flex. Details posted online .

Appearances ColdFusion Flash Flex

June 22, 2009

Check Out tBlurb.com

Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist (and recent ColdFusion devotee) Greg Wilson has created tBlurb.com , an app that lets you enter code and get a short URL to it for sharing (you can choose your own or let it pick it for you). The app features a rich text editor, and supports ActionScript, C++, C#,...

Presenting Tonight At Usergroup In San Francisco

I am in San Francisco for a few days of meetings, video shoots, and more (almost all MAX 2009 related). But tonight I'll get to do what I really enjoy doing, presenting to our usergroups. I'll be presenting ColdFusion and Flash Builder futures to the BACFUG group this evening at 6:30pm in the Adobe...

Appearances ColdFusion Flash Flex

June 21, 2009

More On ColdFusion And Spreadsheets

Last week I posted an entry on the spreadsheet support planned for ColdFusion Centaur . That post (unsurprisingly) generated lots of questions and comments, and so I thought it worthwhile to post a bigger and more sophisticated example, this time building a new spreadsheet from scratch. We'll start...

For Now, Avoid Kindle Version of My RegEx Book

My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has proven to be a very popular book, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to get started with Regular Expressions. The book teaches RegEx incrementally, and for each example a block of text is used, and matching text is shaded to...

Executing Code On Server Startup

ColdFusion can execute code when an application starts and ends, when a session starts and ends, when a request starts and ends, and more. But what if you need to execute code when a server starts up? Granted, this is not a common use case, but when needed, we've had to use onApplicationStart for...