August 24, 2004
"Windows Network & .NET Magazine" (at http://www.winnetmag.com/) is powered by ColdFusion. There are lots of static pages on this site, so you may have to dig around to find the .cfm links, but they are indeed there. Thanks to Steve Young for this one.
August 23, 2004
PC Welt (http://www.pcwelt.de/), ComputerWoche (http://www.computerwoche.de/) and ComputerPartner (http://www.computerpartner.de/) are German IDG publications, and all of their Web sites are powered by ColdFusion (CFMX and CF5). Thanks to Hansjoerg Posch for pointing these ones out to me.
August 22, 2004
Macromedia is now shipping Flex Builder, which is designed to provide an interactive development environment for Flex. Flex Builder is now available and bundled with the Flex trial CD and Flex purchase. Details at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/flexbuilder/.
August 20, 2004
After installing Windows XP Service Pack 2, the Windows Firewall is enabled by default. This can prevent ColdFusion MX 6.1 from functioning correctly. The technote at http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/windowsspxp2.htm describes the steps that need to be taken in order to...
August 19, 2004
I am using pre-beta versions of ColdFusion Blackstone on some of my applications (so as to test new features), and I've been updating the version used on a fairly regular basis, without any real downtime. How is this possible? Simple. I have ColdFusion running on top of JRun4. When I want to move...
August 17, 2004
I flew out of Detroit this morning. That is something I do quite frequently, so why do I mention it here? Because something odd happened; I was not asked for ID. Really. I even asked "do you need to see ID?", and the TSA screener shook her head no and waved me through. Not that I think that...
August 16, 2004
There has been some good buzz in the press and blogs about event gateways in ColdFusion Blackstone, and folks are starting to try to wrap their hands around the concept and what this all means. So ... ColdFusion has long been an incredibly simple way to build Web apps. That's why we all use...
August 16, 2004
Operated by The University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the IEM 2004 US Presidential Winner Takes All Market is a real-money futures market where contract payoffs will be determined by the popular vote cast in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. The overview, assets, graphing...
August 16, 2004
"Blackstone" beta applications are now officially being accepted. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/programs/beta.html for more details.
August 15, 2004
Good news for elementary schools! Last week Macromedia announced a program which makes it easier than ever for K-6 schools to introduce Macromedia tools to teachers and staff, and in turn to make it easy for teachers to introduce these tools to students in the classroom. The Macromedia K-6 Site...