Former ColdFusion team member, Mike Brunt, has written an article for the Adobe Developer Connection entitled Using ColdFusion to enhance scalability and high availability . Mike covers high availability concepts, hardware considerations, clustering, and more. This one is well worth the read.
I'm not a big fan of IT analysts, and have noted so previously. I find that far too many of them are all opinion and no experience, tossing supposed expertise around with little to back it up and even less transparency, and in doing so often actually impacting buying and deployment decisions. Now...
Monochrome is a UK based RIA development and consultancy firm. And Monochrome's Neil Middleton explains Why Monochrome Uses ColdFusion .
I've posted some pics of MAX Europe in Milan, Italy, last week.
The week before MAX Europe in Milan, I spent a few days in Poland. This was my first trip to Poland, and I got to meet customers, partners, and local Adobe personnel, as well as present at an RIA Day event. One evening, Tadeusz Chelkowski and Piotr Walczyszyn gave me a quick tour of the city. The...
What an emotional roller coaster. We've just wrapped two phenomenally successful MAX events (in San Francisco and Milan) and are all on something of a high ... And then Adobe announces layoffs and organizational changes in response to the worsening economy. Goodbye high, hello sobering reality....
I got the chance to chat with Simon Bisson at MAX Milan, and he shares his thoughts over at IT Pro on the future of ColdFusion in a piece entitled The ColdFusion Renaissance .
RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol - yep, we've moved from 3 and 4 letter acronyms to 5 letter acronyms!) was demonstrated at MAX, both in the Day 2 keynote and in the Sneaks. As demonstrated by Agent Steve in Milan and Agents D & D in San Francisco, RTMFP provides the ability to do direct...
This one seemed to fly beneath the radar, and I was unaware of it until it was mentioned on cf-talk. IntelliJ is an incredible Java IDE - in fact it is what most of the ColdFusion engineering team uses to build the product. And apparently, developer Valeria Nikolaenko has been working on a...
I mentioned the Cocomo app created by Serge Jespers and Andrew Shorten. The app was "Paparazzi Central" to be used by paparazzi to share tips with colleagues and upload photos to share with publishers all over the world. And of course Serge and Andrew created a series of images for use with the...