If you use Web Services (either publishing or consuming them) then this one will be of interest to you, a CFMX hot fix which provides SOAP header support is now available. This hot fix adds three new functions that may be used from within CFC methods: GetRequestHeader() is used to get a SOAP...
I am working on a new venture. I have been contacted by senior government officials (and the widow and former lieutenant of important officials) in Nigeria with an intriguing business opportunity. It seems that because of political and military turmoil, large amounts of money are stranded in...
So, any bloggers planning on attending MAX? We're working on a centralized blog aggregator for all MAX related blogs (product stuff, session comments, thoughts, photos, gossip, you name it). The intent is to both to record the MAX experience, and to share MAX with those who might not be attending....
Having problems using the ColdFusion Administrator file browser on Windows 2003? The problem is likely the lack of a JRE as explained in this new TechNote: http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/admin_jre.htm.
An update to Flash MX 2004 has been released, details are at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/ (there is a FAQ available at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/whatsnew_2004_faq.html). The patch fixes more than 250 bugs, and improves help and documentation too. There is also...
ComputerWorld Australia (http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1014291142&fp=16&fpid=0) is running a story on how a ColdFusion based open-source content management system is saving the Australian Film, Television and Radio School thousands of dollars. The CMS is FarCry created by our...
Brian Kotek has posted a nice little article on CFMX 6.1 on Builder.com (http://builder.com.com/5100-6371-5093805.html). Nothing radical or new here, but some useful little examples and code snippets.
Mooch (at http://www.mooch.info/) provides links to all sorts of sites using a really nice Flash interface. Mooch Live lists new sites and pages in any of 8 categories, Mooch At a Glance lists 36 "essential" sites in 6 categories, Mooch Choice provides really nice drill-down access to 1800 sites. I...
takes the URL of the WSDL file for the Web Service to be used. That URL is retrieved by ColdFusion via an HTTP call, and that HTTP call takes time. To improve the performance of Web Service invocation you may save the WSDL locally and then use a local URL in . The remote Web Service will still be...
Actual transcript of a phone call I received last night (well, not the whole call, just until the point at which I had to bite my lips for fear of laughing out loud): CALLER: Hello, is this Ben? ME: Yes it is. CALLER: Hi, this is **** calling from ****. I just wanted to check that you received the...