Blog

April 4, 2007

Sam Farmer On ColdFusion And Yahoo Pipes

Sam Farmer has started blogging , and has posted an entry on using Yahoo Pipes with ColdFusion .

New And Improved Flex.org Online

Flex.org is your primary Flex portal, the one link you need for everything Flex. And a dramatically enhanced and significantly improved Flex.org is now online.

Flex

March 29, 2007

What Is The Best OS For ColdFusion Servers?

Users frequently ask me for platforms and operating system recommendations, wanting to know which is best for ColdFusion. And having just answered this one yet again, I am posting it here so as to be able to refer people to it in the future ... There is no recommended operating system for...

Come On IRS, Take Your PDF Forms One Step Further

Tax day is fast approaching, and I've been working (on and off) on my tax forms. The IRS lets you download just about every form you could need from a forms page - pick the form you want and save the PDF, simple. The forms are not just printable forms, they really are PDF forms, in that you can...

cf.Objective() Site Updated

cf.Objective() is the only ColdFusion conference that focuses solely on Enterprise-level development. The cf.Objective() 2007 site has been updated with new schedule information, a managers guide (in case you need help convincing your boss to let you attend), a chance to win an iPod, and more.

Appearances ColdFusion

March 27, 2007

Scorpio's Ajax Data Grid

has been around for a long time. It started life as a Java applet, then in CFMX7 we added a Flash grid and XML generation, and in Scorpio we plan on adding an Ajax powered DHTML grid. You'll be able to pass a query to the grid as you did previously, like this: SELECT * FROM myTable ... But where...

Scorpio Usergroup Tour Europe Dates

We've confirmed two European venues for the upcoming Scorpio usergroup tour: May 29th: London, England May 30th: Munich, Germany And later that week you'll get to see even more of Scorpio at Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh, Scotland. A meeting in Italy is planned for later in the year, but no date...

Get Yourself An H-Racer

My boys and I spent this evening playing with my newest toy. The H-Racer is a real hydrogen powered car, a toy that runs on a real hydrogen fuel cell. The car is a kit, and some minor assembly is required - this is actually a really good thing as it helps with learning what the components are and...

Creative Suite 3 Announced

Creative Suite 3 has been officially announced. For an interactive introduction visit the Creative License page. To learn which products are included with which editions, see the product page (click on the Compare Editions tab). And for those of you who were worried, CS3 includes an update to our...

Scorpio Auto-Suggest Control

Last week Tim and I showed off some of the Ajax functionality that we are working on for the upcoming ColdFusion Scorpio . One of the controls we demonstrated was an auto-suggest control implemented as an extension to the existing Of course, the list need not be static, it could be programmatically...