Adobe.com is now running on ColdFusion 8 , and Rahul Narula notes that the conversion from CFMX7 was seamless, just the way we like it. Good to see adherence to the eats its own dog food rule, and even better to see a clean and seamless transition.
Like many DBMSs, Apache Derby (included with ColdFusion 8) supports identity fields - fields that auto-increment each time a row is add. These are commonly used for primary key values, as the DBMS itself ensures that these values are unique and never reused. One problem with identity fields is that...
Yesterday I mentioned Rahul Narula's post on ColdFusion and JMS. Rahul has now posted a follow-up entry with a well explained example showing how to use ColdFusion to send messages to JMS queue.
Hot Banana has announced that their CMS has been tested and is "100 percent compliant with Adobe ColdFusion 8, which means it can take full advantage of all the features and functional benefits of the new, soon-to-be-released ColdFusion 8 server platform".
Rahul Narula has posted useful notes on working with the ColdFusion JMS gateway .
ColdFusion 8 is fast, really fast, and in the CFUnited keynote this morning I presented some actual numbers (all reported as requests per second, the higher the number the more load the server can handle): Structure manipulation: CF6.1=99, CF7=101, CF8=200. In other words, CF8 manipulated...
I just arrived at the CFUnited conference venue. It's hard to believe it's been a year sine we were last here, amazing. OK, so let's see ... a keynote for tomorrow morning, that's what we need ... hummm, what to talk about ... ;-)
The complete MAX session list has been posted. There are 27 sessions on ColdFusion this year, including a 3.5 hour boot camp event.
Jake Munson has updated his CFQuickDocs to include ColdFusion 8 tags and functions (and even the new CF8 Ajax JavaScript objects).
Previously we looked at the new ColdFusion 8 data grid and how to populate that control using asynchronous calls back to a ColdFusion Component. In that example the CFC contained a single method that returned a page of data as requested by the data grid. Like the previous incarnations of , the new...