April 26, 2004
I have been running a poll on my site for a couple of months now, asking users how they develop their applications (on a live production server, on a shared development server, developers running the free developer edition locally, or on a separate development instance on a production server). With...
April 25, 2004
DRK7 is available, see http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume7/. This edition includes content for ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, and more.
April 25, 2004
I receive several questions a week about locking, and the need for in ColdFusion MX, and so I thought it worthwhile to post a reply that I just sent to a user ... Locking in ColdFusion, and the tag specifically, has two primary uses, and these must be distinguished. The first use of has nothing to...
April 20, 2004
My "Certified ColdFusion MX Developer Study Guide" (http://www.forta.com/books/0321180585/) is now available in Japanese (published locally by Softbank Publishing, see http://store.sbpnet.jp/bm_detail.asp?sku=4797326654).
April 19, 2004
Looks like I'll be extending the Summer 2004 User Group Tour to include venues in Europe. More details to follow.
April 18, 2004
CFMyAdmin is a ColdFusion based MySQL database management tool. Create and manage databases and tables, view table structures, execute SQL statements, and more. Visit http://www.cfmyadmin.com/. This one is highly recommended.
April 15, 2004
A new six-part ColdFusion training series has been posted to http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/rd_cf.html. These Flash based videos start with absolute basics, and move up to data driven pages, and even using ColdFusion Components. If you are new to ColdFusion, or have yet to...
April 14, 2004
ColdFusion MX 6.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack if a malicious user repeatedly uploads files and interrupts each upload before it completes. A patch is available at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb04-06.html.
April 13, 2004
PaperThin's CommonSpot is a respected and popular content management system, and one of the most popular ColdFusion based options. PaperThin has just released version 4 of CommonSpot, with lots of new features including the much needed static site generation. PaperThin is at...
April 12, 2004
The dates and cities for the Summer 2004 User Group tour are posted on my homepage (http://www.forta.com/). Be sure to drop by to be among the first to see ... um ... stuff I can't tell you about yet. :-)