Tag: ColdFusion

August 17, 2006

ColdFusion Resource Portal

I missed this one while I was out this week, but ... Ray Camden has created ColdFusion Resource Portal , a single page links to all the important ColdFusion links, feeds, resources, and more.

ColdFusion

August 10, 2006

Matt Woodward Joining Senate Sergeant At Arms Team

I've known the folks at U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms for quite a while, they are dedicated CF and Flex shop, and are a great group to spend time with. And now Matt Wooward has announced that he's joining them as Principal Information Technology Specialist. Congrats, Matt!

ColdFusion

August 10, 2006

Special ColdFusion/Flex Promotion For U.S. Federal Customers

For a limited time, Adobe is offering two special RIA bundles exclusively for our federal government customers: RIA Starter Package: Purchase ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Enterprise and get a free copy of Flex Builder 2 with Charting (a $750 value) plus a free training certificate. Use the training...

GetPDFInfo() UDF Returns PDF Information

A user wrote to ask how the recently released XPPAJ libraries (used in my cf_pdfform tag) could be used to determine basic PDF file information (version, page count, and so on). And yes, it sure can. The following is a quick UDF I threw together that returns PDF version, page count, attachment...

Flex Front-end For ColdFusion File Upload

Ryan Favro sent me a link to a really nice example he created showing how to use Flex 2 to build a client that allows you to upload multiple files to ColdFusion (and he has included a View Source). Check it out .

Flex And ColdFusion Seminars In September

With the success of my recent Flex + ColdFusion seminar in D.C. and subsequent e-seminar last week, we'll be taking the show on the road. Join me for a half day seminar to learn why there's simply no quicker or easier way to create Rich Internet Applications than the combination of Flex 2 and...

Message To SitePoint Editor Regarding Column Inaccuracies

SitePoint's August 2nd 2006 issue of Tech Times was released yesterday. In it, a reader asks what products and technologies she should learn (she mentions "AJAX, CSS, Flash, ColdFusion & MSSQL, PHP & MySQL, Microsoft technologies"). I have a couple of issues with Editor Kevin Yank's...

mxAjax, New ColdFusion Ajax Framework

mxAjax is a new Ajax framework for ColdFusion built using JSON and Prototype. mxAjax is brought to us by Arjun (who first brought us CFAjax on which this new project is based).

TechNote: Using The SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver With ColdFusion

A TechNote entitled ColdFusion MX: Configuring the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver has just been released.

Using CFEXECUTE To Execute Command Line Utilities

A user just wrote to me to ask about using . He was trying to execute a command-line utility (based on an example I posted back in CF 5 days) and the code kept throwing Java errors. His specific problem turned out to be one of pathing, pre CFMX you may not have needed to provide fully qualified...