I spent a considerable amount of time today in two different e-mail threads, both from individuals trying to compare ColdFusion development to .NET development. So that I won't have to wade through all of this again any time soon, and in the hope that this discussion proves useful to others, I have...
Steven Erat has posted a link to a job opening for a ColdFusion support engineer . Tier 3 (escalation) engineers get to answer the really tough questions, so lots of ColdFusion and JRun experience is a must. If you think you've go what it takes, read Steven's post.
Someone just e-mailed me to ask if I knew of a CFMX7 gateway that could watch a POP mailbox, firing CF events when messages are received. And actually, I do. Robi Sen wrote one for my Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development . And even if you don't have the book, you can still download the...
Sean Corfield has posted an IRC bot gateway for ColdFusion MX 7. This is a really nice example ColdFusion gateway example. And if anyone finds a real use for it I'd love to know. ;-)
ColdFusion Senior Software Engineer Rupesh Kumar has started blogging at http://coldfused.blogspot.com/ .
Been looking at Ruby on Rails? Then you may want to check out ColdFusion on Wheels .
Guo Haifeng has translated my Art Catalog: Building Your First ColdFusion Powered Flex 2 Application into Chinese .
BrowserHawk has long been just about the best solution for detecting browser capabilities. And now BrowserHawk 9 is out, with additional detection options (including Flash Player 8), and with improved ColdFusion support (via a ColdFusion tag).
Jacob Munson has created cfQuickDocs , a great example of using ColdFusion and CFAjax .
If you are trying to debug Flex ColdFusion connectivity issues, then be sure to keep in mind that if you start ColdFusion at the command prompt you'll see a detailed dump of the messages, both in and out. To do this (on Windows): Make sure that ColdFusion is not running. Open a command prompt...