Last year we introduced dedicated ColdFusion account managers in the U.S., and they have been so successful that we've been working on doing the same for other regions. And Europe is at the top of that list. In fact, last year, at MAX in Barcelona, we hosted a ColdFusion BOF, and the lack of local...
Last week Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, announced that Railo 3.1 will be open sourced, that the new LPGL2 licensed project will be hosted at JBoss.org, and that the JBoss community will be contributing to the enhancement of core functionality. I've known Gert for a long time. We first met in Zurich...
Simon Bailey has posted an example of how to communicate with ColdFusion from a PureMVC Flex client, performing a query against a remote CFC.
At Scotch on the Rocks this week, Adam Lehman and I chatted about ColdFusion, Flex, and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS for short). We spent quite a bit of time on the latter because when I polled the crowd of 150 or so, only 3 raised their hands when asked who'd looked at LCDS. That's a shame, as...
Steve Drucker has posted a recorded Connect session showing how to create a PDF form (using LiveCycle Designer) containing controls which are powered by a ColdFusion backend.
I just arrived in Edinburgh for Scotch on the Rocks 2008. Adam Lehman and I are presenting an opening session in the morning. And as soon as he gets here we'll figure out what we're talking about! ;-)
Over the years there has been infrequent but ongoing discussion about ColdFusion pricing. Some feel that the price is too high and that lowering it would increase product use. Others believe that the product has been priced far too low, and that raising it would increase respect among analysts and...
Remember the ColdFusion Exchange ? It's been languishing and suffering from neglect for a while. But ColdFusion team member Ahamad Patan has taken over Exchange moderation and is committed to reinvigorating this resource.
And now we have another open source CMS option for ColdFusion. Blue River Interactive Group has announced the release of Sava CMS , its open source ColdFusion-based content management system. The features look pretty impressive, as does the UI in the screenshots. If anyone has personal experience...
UK based Software Editorial magazine has published a detailed review on ColdFusion 8, and concludes "Companies choose ColdFusion to create complex and robust mission-critical applications for internal and external access. While there are a number of ways to integrate web content with relational...