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.
Lots of folks will be trying to lay their hands on an iPhone tomorrow. And as impressive as the phone looks (and there really seems to be lots to like about it), I am not getting one. What killed it for me was the decision to tie it to the older slower speed data networks instead of Cingular's 3G...
Hot Banana has announced that their CMS has been tested and is "100 percent compliant with Adobe ColdFusion 8, which means it can take full advantage of all the features and functional benefits of the new, soon-to-be-released ColdFusion 8 server platform".
Rahul Narula has posted useful notes on working with the ColdFusion JMS gateway .
ColdFusion 8 is fast, really fast, and in the CFUnited keynote this morning I presented some actual numbers (all reported as requests per second, the higher the number the more load the server can handle): Structure manipulation: CF6.1=99, CF7=101, CF8=200. In other words, CF8 manipulated...
I just arrived at the CFUnited conference venue. It's hard to believe it's been a year sine we were last here, amazing. OK, so let's see ... a keynote for tomorrow morning, that's what we need ... hummm, what to talk about ... ;-)