Charlie On CF Admin Changes
Charlie Arehart has posted a really useful detailed list of changes between the Administrator apps in CFMX7 and CF8.
Charlie Arehart has posted a really useful detailed list of changes between the Administrator apps in CFMX7 and CF8.
Last week at CFUnited we publicly discussed the performance enhancements in ColdFusion 8 , and I also posted some specifics . I also said that we had seen some apps where the gain is double and even triple performance. Well, sorry, I lied. I just got stats comparing Ray Camden's Canvas Wiki running...
You knew that you can build AIR applications in Flex or HTML/JavaScript, but did you know just how capable those JavaScript based AIR apps actually are? Check out Kevin Hoyt's 35+ AIR Examples for JavaScript Developers , impressive stuff indeed!
The first 360Flex (in San Jose, CA) was an incredible event. I presented a session on ColdFusion/Flex integration, and I'll be presenting an updated presentation on the same topic at 360Flex in Seattle, WA. That first 360Flex sold out in record time, so if you have not yet done so, sign up now !
BOF stands for "birds of a feather", and MAX BOFs are free form discussion groups around specific topics. We've always welcomed input on what BOFs to host, but this year we're inviting you to get involved early giving you the chance to determine how the 24 BOF slots are allocated. Interested? Join...
Information Risk Management, Plc. is a UK based independent security analysis and risk consultancy firm. IRM conducted an extensive security review of ColdFusion 8, and delivered this final report . They conclude that "ColdFusion 8 exhibits a high degree of resilience to application layer attacks...
Adobe.com is now running on ColdFusion 8 , and Rahul Narula notes that the conversion from CFMX7 was seamless, just the way we like it. Good to see adherence to the eats its own dog food rule, and even better to see a clean and seamless transition.
Like many DBMSs, Apache Derby (included with ColdFusion 8) supports identity fields - fields that auto-increment each time a row is add. These are commonly used for primary key values, as the DBMS itself ensures that these values are unique and never reused. One problem with identity fields is that...
Two positions to post this week: Council for Logistics Research, Inc (Arlington, VA) is looking for an experienced web developer with 3-5 years of ColdFusion experience, 1-2 years of experience with an MVC framework, and 3-5 years experience working with SQL as the back-end for web applications....
Yesterday I mentioned Rahul Narula's post on ColdFusion and JMS. Rahul has now posted a follow-up entry with a well explained example showing how to use ColdFusion to send messages to JMS queue.