I spoke to the UKCFUG in London this evening. Al Manning was up first, he discussed a ColdFusion/Flex application, and using ColdFusion as a Flex backend. And then I introduced ColdFusion MX 7 event gateways; what they are, why they are needed, their architecture and internals, gateway classes and...
I'm in tiny Luxembourg airport awaiting my flight to London. I flew in this morning to spend the afternoon with ColdFusion users at the European Commission. The EC was an early ColdFusion customer from back in the Allaire days, and remains one of the largest ColdFusion shops in the world. One group...
cffaq.com is now available in Swedish (the 14th language). Thanks to Stefan Gudmundsson for the translation.
ColdFusion MX 7 ships with a new version of Verity K2 Enterprise server which is (now) used for all ColdFusion Verity processing. Verity K2 is a server itself, and ColdFusion is a client application which connects to K2 so as to perform searching, indexing, etc. The ColdFusion Administrator's...
Have you successfully used your local user group to pick up a date? Did you meet your significant other at a ColdFusion conference? Has ColdFusion changed your personal and love life (and not in some creepy kind of way)? If so, let us know. We're planning the big ColdFusion 10th birthday bash and...
A ColdFusion user e-mailed me with a problem; he needed to add an XML DOM into another XML DOM, essentially making the first DOM a child node of the first one. Simple assignments returned the following error: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it....
Macworld UK (a ColdFusion site, btw) has a short blurb about my upcoming UK CFUG presentation .
I'm going to be over in Europe the week after next, and will get the chance to talk to the UK CFUG in London while I am there. If you're in the area on June 22nd, please drop by. Details on the UKCFUG web site .
Last week I mentioned that my new Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide was shipping. As with all of the Study Guides, this book has an accompanying preparatory exam that can be used to gauge exam readiness (or just for fun, kind of). That exam is now online and can be accessed...
When images are associated with database records, those images are usually stored on disk. The images are related to their respective records by storing their names in a table or perhaps by using the record's identifier as part of the file name. The advantages of storing images as files are...