I'm not sure how long this one has been around, but I just ran across a nice little CF/Flash integration tutorial by Koosha Khajeh, a 17 year old Flash Developer. The tutorial entitled Creating a Client-Server Guest Book with Macromedia Flash and ColdFusion walks through building a CFC, creating a...
Lots of you have asked me about books being updated for Blackstone, so here is the scoop ... The update to ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit will be out at about the time that Blackstone ships (sorry, I can't give you that exact date yet). One exciting change this time around, Ray...
Adam Howitt just e-mailed me to tell me about (and invite me to) CFLunch. As per Adam, "I run a CFLunch meeting every other Wednesday for ColdFusion developers in the loop area. These are less formal than CFUG meetings and are just an opportunity for round table discussion. Currently we have around...
Charlie Griefer just brought this one to my attention. Easycfm is also running a tutorial contest. Tutorials received between December 15th, 2004 and January 15th, 2005 will be eligible to win an Apple IPod (40GB), with the winner to be decided by vote. Details at Easycfm .
Yesterday I blogged a CNET story on Blackstone, a story from August which I misread as being new. Well, Macworld.co.uk just did the same thing , and is running a short news story on Blackstone pointing to that same CNET article . I guess they must use AltaVista too. Worth noting, Macworld.co.uk is...
CNET is running a story on the upcoming Blackstone release. All in all a good write-up, although I think they missed the boat a bit on the forms features.
I mentioned Sean Corfield's thread on last week, it now has over 30 comments, and is very compelling reading. But my own take on is a little different, let me explain ... was originally created to make ColdFusion more palatable to developers using traditional scripting languages (Perl was the...
Lots of you have asked for Blackstone to generate reports in Excel format. Well, this is not a promise, but it looks like you may just get your wish. Stay tuned!
Good thread on CFSCRIPT vs. CFML tags at http://www.corfield.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BACC06F9-B68E-AFB1-2DCB29FE5E4EE752.
CFEclipse is a CFML plug-in for Eclipse (the popular open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM, and now managed by the Eclipse Foundation). The CFEclipse plug-in provides Eclipse with CFML awareness and functionality (code completion, syntax highlighting, code insight, language help, CFC...