May 2, 2005
Macromedia has posted Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2005 Results . Betsey Nelson (EVP and CFO) discussed "nice strong performance ... including Flex and ColdFusion", but did not go into product by product specifics. We've been telling you for a while now that ColdFusion is doing very well, and I have...
May 2, 2005
This is long overdue, I know, but I now have online support forums for my books. Not much content there yet, but I get support e-mail's daily, and am going to start directing readers to http://forums.forta.com/ (if for no other reason than to catalog all of the responses as the same questions tend...
May 1, 2005
Breeze 5 has just been announced. Details (and access to a 15 day free trial) at http://www.macromedia.com/go/breeze.
April 26, 2005
Ian Turner, a Macromedia Director based in our U.K. office, will be speaking at the UKCFUG this Thursday. He intends to spend some time at the beginning of the meeting discussing the planned acquisition and what it means. Details at the UKCFUG site.
April 25, 2005
Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development (new fourth edition) is now shipping. This edition was co-authored by Dain Anderson, Jeff Bouley, Ray Camden , Adam Churvis, David Churvis, Ken Fricklas, Paul Hastings , Sam Neff , Sarge Sargent , Robi Sen, Lucas Sherwood, and Jeff Tapper . Details...
April 24, 2005
WANTED: Early successes using ColdFusion MX 7 REWARD: One free copy of ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition OR 5 free copies of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 will be awarded to all entries chosen. SUBMISSIONS: Please submit an overview of your early success with ColdFusion MX 7 to dgruber@macromedia.com....
April 20, 2005
Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion MX 7 is available for download, details at http://www.macromedia.com/go/fd71533. This Hot Fix is cumulative (it includes Hot Fix 1).
April 20, 2005
Today's SD Times News "News On Thursday" opened with a brief story on the Adobe Macromedia announcement, and included quotes by Macromedia's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch. The following is a copy and paste of the 3rd paragraph of the interview: He called ColdFusion and J2EE "the core DNA of...
April 19, 2005
This one is definitely worthy of a mention, Adobe uses ColdFusion on their public site. A quick search found two instances, a customer service page , and a secured exchange site , and I am sure there are more. This is definitely good to see!
April 19, 2005
The look of Flash Forms can be controlled using styles. To help fine tune style selections, I threw this quick and dirty form together. It allows you to set eight style settings, the results of which are immediately reflected in a sample button control. Note that I am using the setStyle() method to...