Last week I mentioned that CF8 public beta downloads had already exceeded our expectations. I was looking at updated stats yesterday, and the downloads numbers are now significantly higher than when I made that post. That's phenomenal! But I also noticed something else of interest - of the versions...
ComputerWeekly is running a story Coldfusion offers a short curve to web development . Aside from some minor technical inaccuracies, the author seems to have gotten the core value proposition right, as in "Champions of ColdFusion say that the cost is quickly defrayed by the boost it gives to...
Damon Cooper has posted info and links on ColdFusion 8 supported platforms and system requirements.
Since 1998, finalsite has been bringing cutting-edge web design and web software to leading independent schools and organizations around the world. finalsite currently serves nearly 200 independent schools and a total of nearly 500 schools and educational organizations of all types. finalsite...
The Fusebox folks are running a video contest , create a video presentation showing how to go from zero-to-app in a few short minutes using Fusebox and ColdFusion, and win a prize.
Here is some more information about the first public beta release of Flex 3 (now available on Adobe labs), the first major deliverable for the open source Flex project (including a public bug base, and the beginning of public nightly builds) ... Some of the new features in Flex Builder 3 are:...
Manjukiran Pacchhipulusu is a ColdFusion QA Lead, and he's blogging on CF8 features. Bhakti Pingale is also on the ColdFusion QA team, and she's blogging on ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality.
Create an AIR (formerly Apollo) application, enter it into the Adobe AIR Developer Derby, and you could win the trip of a lifetime - a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice! Other cool prizes too. Details online .
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And you can get it right now on Labs .
Yep, the Flex 3 beta is now available for download from Labs.