I wrote an app that I use to allow BlogCFC posts via e-mail. This particular blog is an internal Adobe blog, and anyone with a valid Adobe LDAP login can post to it. (I also wrote some code that updates Ray's login code so as to update tblUsers table with new users as needed). BlogCFC has grown...
I'll be in Dayton, OH, next week for a customer meeting. And while I am there, I'll be chatting about ColdFusion 8 at an event at Books & Co in Beavercreek. The event is on January 9th at 7:00pm. Incidentally, this Books & Co location is at The Greene Town Center, and the The Greene site is...
CFWACK 8 Volume 3 - Advanced Application Development is now shipping (I received my copies a few days ago). Some of the new content includes server monitoring, .NET integration, working with data feeds, and more. More details on the book page .
The ColdFusion 8 edition of the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is now 1800 pages in 3 volumes. And that was not enough space for all we had cover. So, an additional 678 pages of content were published electronically in PDF form, and may be freely downloaded (whether or not you buy the...
The 2007 CFeMmys have been announced, and RIAForge has won for Best Community Site. Ray Camden gets much of the credit for this one, as he did the bulk of the work creating RIAForge and continues to do all maintenance and management. Still, as RIAForge was my idea (and I was the one who roped Ray...
eWeek has a story on user reactions to Ruby on Rails 2.0. It contains the following quote (from a Baltimore based software development company): "We are engaged to build the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Management System, and after experimenting with the usual suspects - J2EE [Java 2 Platform,...
Luis Majano notes that NASA JPL has committed to ColdBox . NASA JPL is a long time ColdFusion customer, on one visit there I saw code written in DBML!
ColdFusion Team Member Rakshith has explained how to enable upload features in the FCKEditor used by ColdFusion 8 .
With the big announcement of the release of open source BlazeDS on Labs, ColdFusion users have been trying to figure out which option is better for them - the full LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) which is included with ColdFusion 8, or the new open source BlazeDS option. BlazeDS is, for the most...
Todd Sharp created a cool example of on-the-fly conversion from PowerPoint to HTML and then to Connect. And then he explained how he did it. Very cool indeed.