Macromedia has posted Security Bulletin MPSB05-02 - Workaround available for ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater file disclosure . This issue only effects J2EE Configuration - ColdFusion MX 6.1 for JRun4 (Updater 1) (CFMX7 on JRun4 is not effected).
The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit web site is powered by ColdFusion MX. The site is running a CFMX powered CMS named NQcontent (which is also used by lots of other organizations . This one sent to me by Anthony Cooper, thanks.
Lots of you have been writing to ask about the new Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit which is already shipping, and which Amazon.com still shows as "yet been released". Amazon has confirmed that they do indeed have the book and they are looking into why the availability...
Kevin Hoyt blogged that he'll be presenting a Breeze session on Flex/ColdFusion integration on Friday, April 8th at 2:00 PM Eastern.
John Cleese in a Flash video entitled Institute for Backup Trauma about all that can go wrong with tape backups. This is an ad for a company named LiveVault, but worth watching anyway (all the way until the end, until the third button). ;-)
We all know that patents have been awarded for the most ridiculous of inventions, but just how ridiculous some of them are may surprise you. For example, patent 6,637,447 for "Beerbrella" (yep an umbrella that clips onto your beer bottle), patent 6,206,000 for a "canine scuba diving apparatus",...
Last year I mentioned TSA sloppiness and attitude . Well, here's another example. I flew out of BWI this afternoon. There are 9 security lanes at BWI Concourse D, but only 1 was open. When I arrived there were about 50 people ahead of me, and it took half an hour to get to the security checkpoint....
3Com provides product support online via an eSupport site. The eSupport Self Help site allows users to self-diagnose and fix eSupport site issues, and is powered by ColdFusion (as are other sections of the site). This one sent to me by Andrei Oprea.
Computerworld New Zealand is reporting that Straker Interactive signed an agreement with Macromedia to bundle Macromedia Flex and ColdFusion Enterprise with every copy of ShadoMX sold. The article then goes on to describe the current and planned integration.
My CF ISP list has long needed an overhaul, and today I deployed a new Flex powered version of the application. You can browse and search for hosting companies, view company specifics and reviews, and post your own reviews too. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.