I have been visiting lots of customers recently, primarily demonstrating ColdFusion MX 7 functionality. One question that keeps cropping up (particularly from customers who have been looking at Macromedia Flex) is "why would I need Flex if I have Flash Forms in ColdFusion MX 7?". I've written about...
Visa Corporation has been using ColdFusion internally for a long time (the very first ColdFusion class that I taught way back when was at Visa). Patrick Flynn e-mailed to let me know that Visa is using ColdFusion on a public facing site too. The Visa Extras customer loyalty program site is powered...
Join Macromedia Senior Software Engineer Tom Jordahl who will lead this live technical discussion on ColdFusion Event Gateways. ColdFusion has long been the easiest way to create applications that respond to Web requests from web browsers. ColdFusion 7.0 opens up a whole new world of applications...
I'll be all over the Northeast this week, and will get the opportunity to present to the Hartford, CT, ColdFusion User Group on Tuesday March 15th. Details are on the user group web page . I hope to see you there!
Ray Ozzie (best known as the creator of Lotus Notes) created Groove Networks to create software to simplify how groups work together, and Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Groove Networks. Several of you have written to tell me that the Groove Networks Web Site is powered by ColdFusion.
Murat, from MMIstanbul (the Istanbul Macromedia User Group) has posted my Introduction to ColdFusion MX 7 article translated into Turkish . UPDATE: New URL is http://mmistanbul.com/makaleler/index.cfm?makale_id=48 .
Computerworld is running a story on application interfaces, and gives an example of an application created by The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School using Flex with a ColdFusion back-end.
Someone on the cf-talk list asked about obtaining a SMS account and short code, and Damon Cooper posted a response with some valuable links. Here is an extract from his post: Most of the major wireless carriers provide SMPP accounts directly (AT&T Wireless, etc) for access to a specific...
Lots of users have been asking about the Flash Player versions needed for ColdFusion MX 7 features. There are three ColdFusion MX 7 features that can take advantage of Flash, and the player requirements are different for each: Flash Forms require Flash Player version 7. FlashPaper requires Flash...
Reports created using the ColdFusion Report Builder are more report templates than actual reports. They are designed to allow you define the presentation of report data, data that may not even exist until report execution time. For example, although a SQL query could be embedded in the report as...