Macromedia has announced Contribute 3 (http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/) and the new Web Publishing System (http://www.macromedia.com/software/webpublishingsystem/), and several of you have already written to ask about the relationship between the Web Publishing System (WPS for short)...
This one is old news, but I was just reminded of it while catching up with e-mail. Jakob Neilson has an article on useit.com on a competition to identify the world's ten best government intranets. The Winning sites (in the U.S., Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Canada) are listed in the...
I finally got some time to look at Jeff Peters' "ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures". Jeff has been an active member of the ColdFusion community for quite some time, and has been a strong advocate for Fusebox (the subject of a book he published a couple of years back). This new title checks...
I introduced Blackstone to over 40 user groups today. From Australia to Brazil to South Africa to Germany to Colombia, to all over the USA and Canada, and all in about 3 hours. Impossible? Not if you are using Breeze, and each time I present a Breezo (Breeze presentation have been dubbed "Breezos")...
My FlashForward presentation went very well. I talked about the basics of using Flash for more than animation, Flash as a client to back-end processing. Demos, an overview of CFML, CFC basics, using the Flash Web Services and Remoting components, we went through it all, and the audience responded...
I was just in New York City last week (for a user group presentation), and am on my way back, this time to speak at Flashforward. I have an afternoon session today entitled "ColdFusion-Powered Flash: An Introduction", and will cover the use of Flash for more than animation, CF and CFML basics, and...
ComputerWeekly.com is running a story entitled "Non-Microsoft Browsers Are Most Secure Choice" (see http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=131776). The article argues that Microsoft Internet Explorer is less secure because a) it has grown to be too big and complex and that...
Eric Jones, CF columnist for SitePoint.com, has posted a column entitled "Making the Case for ColdFusion". Eric is an experienced PHP developer, who was "asked to switch from my happy PHP world to the dark side of ColdFusion", and learned that by using ColdFusion he could "do things faster,...
The North American segment of the most ambitious (and grueling) user group tour in Macromedia's history has just finished. Reactions to Blackstone (the next major version of ColdFusion) have been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic, and so I thought it worthwhile to share some of what we've...
I presented Blackstone to the Boston CFUG this evening, another great presentation (despite the heat and the lack of air conditioning). So, 2 countries, 17 states, 24 user groups, CFUN, lots of corporate presentations, numerous Breeze presentations, thousands of users, more hotels and flights than...