This seems to be coming up more and more frequently, ColdFusion developers being asked to defend ColdFusion against a planned move to Java and J2EE. I now have three such messages in my inbox, and so I thought it worthwhile to share my response to this one. For starters, any suggestion of "we need...
A user e-mailed me to ask how to define JRun server instances as Windows services (so that they autostart). In case others need this same information, JRun comes with a utility named jrunsvc that is used for just this purpose. Documentation for jrunsvc can be found at...
Christian Cantrell blogged this one (http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/005679.cfm), America's Most Wanted has a new site up, powered by ColdFusion MX (on Windows, looks like they migrated away from Linux). Site is at http://amw.com/.
It is always good to know of high profile public facing ColdFusion sites, and this one fits the bill. E*Trade Financial is running ColdFusion (it appears to be CF5) at https://investor.etrade.com/investors.cfm. Thanks to James Simpson for alerting me to this one.
Australians Robin Hilliard, Andrew Muller, and Matt Voermanhave launched their new Macromedia Professional Services company, RocketBoots. And they are blogging at http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/.
Microsoft using ColdFusion MX? Is it possible? Actually, yes, it is! The Microsoft Office Live Meeting / PlaceWare site at http://main.placeware.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (the homepage is even named index.cfm). Some of the external links are to asp pages, but the core site seems to be...
ColdFusion developer Tom Kitta wrote to me to tell me about his freely available XML based ColdFusion powered guest book application. If you want a guest book for your site, go to http://www.tomkitta.com/coldfusion/gb/. Thanks Tom.
Several months ago I blogged the worst customer experience I ever had while trying to get information from AT&T. Well, once again I am blogging about AT&T customer support, but this experience was the exact opposite. I had a simple technical question (pertaining to GSM network frequencies),...
We're not yet officially accepting Blackstone beta applications, but Tim Buntel blogged the application URL last week (http://buntel.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=ED6B51CA-4E22-1671-588F1BE8B0B89CAD), so what the heck ... To apply for the Blackstone beta ahead of the rush, go to...
"T-Mobile International and Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced a strategic partnership to bring more expressive multimedia and interactivity to handsets. As a result of the partnership, Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1 will power News Express, T-Mobile’s new mobile multimedia news service...