Detroit played host to Powered by Detroit this weekend, its first ColdFusion/Flash conference, with about 150 attendees from all over. I attended day two (today, Sunday) and presented a general session on CFMX7, and then took part in a panel along with Mike Dinowitz and Simon Horwith. Thanks to...
Conversant's SoapBox Server 2005 is a leading Windows based XMPP server, supporting text messaging, managed contact lists, secure chat rooms, and more. ColdFusion MX 7, via the XMPP protocol gateway, can interact with SoapBox Server providing messaging capabilities to CF apps, presence awareness...
Macromedia has posted Security Bulletin MPSB05-02 - Workaround available for ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater file disclosure . This issue only effects J2EE Configuration - ColdFusion MX 6.1 for JRun4 (Updater 1) (CFMX7 on JRun4 is not effected).
The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit web site is powered by ColdFusion MX. The site is running a CFMX powered CMS named NQcontent (which is also used by lots of other organizations . This one sent to me by Anthony Cooper, thanks.
Kevin Hoyt blogged that he'll be presenting a Breeze session on Flex/ColdFusion integration on Friday, April 8th at 2:00 PM Eastern.
Computerworld New Zealand is reporting that Straker Interactive signed an agreement with Macromedia to bundle Macromedia Flex and ColdFusion Enterprise with every copy of ShadoMX sold. The article then goes on to describe the current and planned integration.
My CF ISP list has long needed an overhaul, and today I deployed a new Flex powered version of the application. You can browse and search for hosting companies, view company specifics and reviews, and post your own reviews too. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.
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I just spent a long time troubleshooting a Flex ColdFusion connectivity issue, and now that we've figured out what was going on I am sharing this in case it bites anyone else. There are two basic ways for Flex to invoke back-end ColdFusion CFCs, SOAP (Web Services) or AMF (Flash Remoting). My app...
eWeek is running a review of ColdFusion MX 7 . The summary states: While maintaining the easy tagging and clean, effective language that have been the hallmarks of previous versions, Macromedia's ColdFusion MX 7 is now a much more powerful and enterprise-class solution for creating and delivering...