ColdFusion is case-insensitive, and Flex MXML and ActionScript are very case-sensitive. For consistency's sake, when ColdFusion variables are sent from ColdFusion to the Flash Player via Flash Remoting, names are converted to uppercase (that's the default behavior, and it can be changed if needed)....
Paul Jansen is TIOBE's Management Director, and he responded to my post yesterday about the ColdFusion being taken off the TIOBE Programming Index . Here is his message: Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply on our TIOBE index. I have added an extra question called "Who is Richard Bremner?" to the FAQ of...
Adobe Feeds is up and running, replacing MXNA, and running on newer faster servers running ColdFusion 8.0.1. But more importantly, some significant code changes were made to get rid of lots of the problem code - code which was written for tens of feeds as opposed to close to two thousand. There are...
I've never taken the TIOBE Programming Community Index overly seriously. It's not really a gauge of anything overly meaningful. As TIOBE itself explains: The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The...
Three ColdFusion positions this week, including one in Canada: New York City Human Resources Administration (Brooklyn, NY) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 8 years of ColdFusion experience, as well as strong skills with IIS, SQL Server, and OOP. Candidates will...
We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including...
Enrique Duvós, who heads up Adobe Platform Evangelism in Europe (and who's been at Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe for about as long as I have), has a new blog at http://www.duvos.com/ .
Mike Chambers has posted an entry entitled Update on MXNA (or what the %@#! is going on!) about, well, I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
Ted Patrick turned me on to YSlow , a Yahoo! Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug to analyze web page loads and make performance recommendations. I've been using it for a few days now, and this one is very cool, check it out!
3 years after starting the Transfer project, Mark Mandel has announced the release of Transfer 1.0. Congrats to Mark and all those involved on this momentous accomplishment! And if you've not bumped into Transfer yet ... Transfer is a ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping Library. Transfer ORM's...