Jonathan Wall (developer relations guy, and a member of the team since Allaire days) has attended every MAX (and DevCon and Allaire Developer's Conference) since 2000. Which means I have him beat, as I attended the first event in 1999 in Boston. I also have the privilege and distinction of being...
First Sean posted an example of ColdFusion 8 running PHP scripts , then he posted an example using Ruby scripts , then he followed this up with some additional notes , and then posted bits on RIAForge . Awesome work, Sean!
Sorry for not posting job listings in a while, I've been swamped and some of these have been sitting in my inbox for a few weeks. But, several listings here, the first two for multiple ColdFusion developers: ESRI (Redlands, CA) is looking for several ColdFusion developers. Requirements include a...
DNS Park has been the victim of a DDoS attack , which appears to be ongoing. As DNS Park hosts DNS for forta.com, my site was sporadically unavailable through the night and this morning, although it seems to be available right now.
Rakshith is part of the ColdFusion engineering team in Bangalore, and he is now blogging .
This one was not discussed during the usergroup tour, and I have not seen anyone mention it since we released the CF8 public beta, so ... If you've ever needed server-side printing under programmatic control, ColdFusion 8 introduces a new tag. prints PDF files (including those created using , and )...
The data grid is critical to all sorts of development on all sorts of platforms and in all sorts of languages. ColdFusion has supported data grids since ColdFusion 2 - first a Java applet, then a Flash control, and in ColdFusion 8 we've added an HTML data grid that can be pre-populated with data,...
Many of us have built related select controls, forms with two (or more) drop down controls, where making a change in one control causes the available selections in the related control to change. For example, selecting a category in one control displays category products in a related control, or...
I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that displays suggestions...
I've been waiting for this one to be announced, and Mike Chambers just blogged it - Apollo will include an embedded SQLite engine which can be used for local database storage, and which will be invaluable to apps that need to support offline processing.