About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...
Spike Milligan has posted a blog entry on how to replace CF tag processing with your own functionality. Obviously, this is a dangerous thing to do (not that I would not do it myself). But having said that, this makes for interesting reading. See...
Macromedia will be hosting a MX Conference in Taiwan on November 9-10, and it looks like I'll be attending. I have no details yet, but will post them as soon as they are available.
We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...
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...