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...
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.
As part of our "Centaur" (next major version of CF) planning we are collecting input on ColdFusion IDEs. Please provide your opinion by filling in this survey .
Just one this week: Rhinofly (Utrecht, Netherlands) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least two years of experience with ColdFusion MX (or later) and SQL. Speaking Dutch is not a requirement. Details (in Dutch) posted online .
A lawsuit has been filed by Stacie Somers, a resident of San Diego County, California, who bought a 30GB iPod from Target, and who is apparently upset that she has to buy music from iTunes, an alleged monopoly. The complaint is that iPods won't play audio files protected by Microsoft DRM, and that...
On January 1st 2008, the US Senate's lobbyist reform bill ( S.1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 ) went into effect. The bill is designed to provide greater transparency in the legislative process, and requires full disclosure pertaining to lobbying activities. So what does...
Intelligent Enterprise handed out their 2008 Editors' Choice Awards , declaring that "Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development.", and noting that "Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development...
I just received a great message from a ColdFusion developer at The Economist , and just had to share it: Hi Ben, I thought I'd let you know that Economist.com has finished it's port to ColdFusion 8 across the whole live cluster and we have seen a reduction in page generation time of around 20%...
ColdFusion team member Rakshith has posted an entry explaining how to get the spell checker to work in the FCKEditor used by .
Ok, so the title may be a bit of a stretch. ;-) But ... without venturing into political specifics, it is cool to see that GOP front runner Mike Huckabee is using ColdFusion (and Fusebox) to power his website ! Thanks to Prayank Swaroop for pointing this one out.