I recently received this message from Andrew Tomlinson, a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire (a ColdFusion powered site) in the U.K., and am sharing it with Andrew's permission. Thanks! :-) Just a short email to let you know that we have adopted Sams...
Macromedia Labs is online. This new site is your source for early looks at emerging products and technologies from Macromedia, and you can download the Flex 2 alpha (including Flex Builder 2 and the ColdFusion adapter) right now.
CFUnit is a unit testing framework for ColdFusion, modeled after the popular JUnit framework. CFUnit is an open source project hosted on SourceForge and is freely available. The idea behind unit testing it to build a framework of scripted tests that are frequently executed to verify each method or...
MAX 2005 is right around the corner, and excitement is building for what is shaping up to be an incredible event (and the biggest MAX to date). I, however, am miserable. Ever since the first Allaire Developer's Conference in Boston in 1999, I have not missed a single DevCon or MAX. Until now....
Qasim Rasheed is a member of the ColdFusion community (many of you met him at CFUNITED this year), and he also helped out on my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes . He asked me to post the following: You might be already aware that an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale...
Check out the Macromedia Asia Pacific Events page to learn more about over a dozen upcoming online seminars at times that will work for users in Australia and New Zealand. Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, and Flex Builder 2, and more are being covered.
Here is a quote from a press release issued today: Macromedia is also introducing a new tiered licensing model to bring the power of Flex development within reach of every professional application developer, while also offering value-added capabilities that scale to meet the needs of the most...
David Wadhwani, V.P. of Product Development for Macromedia Flex, has posted an introduction to the Flex 2 product line .
A user just e-mailed me with a problem. He had to process the results of an existing form which was made up of fields named with invalid characters (one was "first name"). Trying to access the field as #FORM.first name# won't work and will throw an error. So how to access these fields? The answer...
ColdFusion Administrator settings are server wide. And users have long asked for more granular settings, ideally per application. A thread on cf-talk today discussed per application mappings, but there is actually more to it than that. What about debug settings? Log file paths? Default SMTP server?...