I wrote an article for Macromedia's Edge newsletter on Flash Forms and Flex, explaining the similarities and differences, and clarifying when to use each. The article entitled ColdFusion MX 7: Creating Flash Forms with Ease and Flex-ability is now online (see section 2).
UK CFer John Beynon has posted a very useful document that could help you justify ColdFusion Enterprise (over Standard).
Government Computer News is running a story entitled Apps on tap about tools and products to use to bring Web Services based applciations online, and gives an example of ColdFusion being used at the San Diego County Department of Child Support.
I just finished my last session in Amsterdam, thus wrapping almost three weeks of International ColdFusion MX 7 launch activities (in Japan, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands). The past 17 days have been a blur of flights hotels and taxis, interviews and briefings...
If you have not tried this one yet, you must. Really. This is one gem that has, for the most part, slipped under the radar. ... In addition to the actual query, can return a structure containing query information (including the SQL executed).
I am in Amsterdam now, the last stop on this European launch tour. I presented ColdFusion MX 7 in Brussels this afternoon, at a CF Seminar attended by crowd of 120. Less than a dozen of those present had seen CFMX7, so the content was fresh for most. I have now presented CFMX7 hundreds of times to...
Judging by how often this one comes up, there seems to be much confusion and need for clarification. So ... ColdFusion MX 7 can execute compiled .cfm files, Java bytecode instead of CFML source. All editions of ColdFusion can compile CFML source for deployment, and all versions of ColdFusion can...
There are lots of product TechNotes on the Macromedia site, and their individual URLs can be long and unwieldy. To make accessing specific TechNotes easier, you can use /go/ URLs, in the format /go/tn_nnnnn (assuming you know the TechNote ID, that is). For example, to access TechNote 17883 you can...
I presented ColdFusion MX 7 to the London CFUG tonight. The event started at 3:00pm with an introduction by Macromedia's Jan Van Jensen, Lucas Sherwood then gave an intro to Flex, Steve Allison introduced Captivate, and then I had 90 minutes or so to present ColdFusion MX 7. I covered printing,...
Erik Lee, of the Macromedia Product Security team, has written an article entitled Configuring ColdFusion MX 7 Server Security . The article lists recommendations and best practices for securing servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7. This is not a...