January 13, 2008
Microsoft Excel is a fact of life for many business, and ColdFusion Excel integration (both how to generate Excel spreadsheets programmatically, and how to read and manipulate them) is a rather frequent query. Charlie Arehart has posted a detailed list of all of the ColdFusion Excel integration...
January 12, 2008
David Rutter works with both ColdFusion and LiveCycle, and he started blogging last month. David recently posted blog entries on how to use Acrobat Reader Extensions with ColdFusion, and how to enable Acrobat Shared Review .
January 11, 2008
Sean Corfield has posted a lengthy entry on common complaints and objections to ColdFusion . This one is worth a read, especially the comments.
January 10, 2008
Seven positions, all with the same company: DRIVE Developments, Inc. (Clarkston, MI) has seven positions open that involve ColdFusion (some of which require ColdFusion, others ColdFusion is preferred). Check the careers page for reqs 007, 008, 009, 010, 011, 012, and 014.
January 9, 2008
In anticipation of the upcoming Flex 3 and AIR launches, the Adobe Platform Evangelist team is taking part in a massive usergroup road-show. I'll be presenting sessions in Orlando , Atlanta , Raleigh , and Nashville , and presenters in other locations include Adam Lehman, Andrew Shorten, Danny...
January 8, 2008
Adam Lehman and I met ColdFusion users in Dayton, OH, this evening for an event at Books and Company. About 20 attendees showed up for a session on "Lesser Known ColdFusion 8 Goodies", and then we hung out at the pub next door for a while. Tomorrow morning we drive up to Cleveland for an afternoon...
January 7, 2008
I became a U.S. citizen in 2000, just in time to vote in that year's Presidential Election. I have voted at every opportunity since, in elections big and small. But, to date, I have voted in person on Election Day just once (and that was for a local citywide ordinance vote). Inevitably, I am on the...
January 7, 2008
ColdFusion 8 uses Ext internally for some of its Ajax support. Ajaxian introduces Dan Vega's notes on how to use Ext 2.0 with ColdFusion (and not just ColdFusion 8).
January 6, 2008
The New York ColdFusion User Group is one of our oldest, and I have had the privilege of speaking to them many times. The group was founded by Judith and Michael Dinowitz who also ran it for more than a decade. The group is now being managed by Ben Nadel and Clark Valberg, and the first noticeable...
January 6, 2008
The 18th Annual Jolt Awards have been announced, and ColdFusion 8 is a finalist in the Web Development Tools category (other finalists in this category are 3rdRail, Appcelerator, IntelliJ, NetBeans, RSSBus). Other Adobe products nominated are Captivate, RoboHelp, LiveCycle ES, and Device Central.