We hosted a "sneak peak" session yesterday afternoon here at MAX, engineers from all the product teams (in bee costumes, don't ask) used the opportunity to showcase cool stuff they were working on (stuff that may, or may not) make it into future products. Mike Nimer presented for the ColdFusion...
Lots of the impromptu chats I have been having here at MAX have been focused on Flex, and specifically how it relates to ColdFusion. So, no, Flex is not a ColdFusion killer, it is not even a ColdFusion competitor. The truth is that I don't think we've done an adequate job yet of articulating the...
Finally, a few minutes of blogging time ... MAX 2003 has been a blast thus far - there is incredible excitement, attendees seem excited and enthusiastic, the facilities are great, and everyone seems to be having fun. That's a good thing. The Day 2 keynote was hilarious, our very own Tim Buntel and...
During this morning's MAX 2003 keynote I announced that the next major version of ColdFusion is in the works, the product is codenamed "Blackstone". I also listed the high level themes for this future product, and just so things are clear, this is the text from the slide I showed: Key themes for...
It's official, the product formerly known by the codename "Royale" will be named "Macromedia Flex". Flex is a standards based server product that allows developers to build rich user experiences all in code (in an XML based language). Flex is designed to leverage existing and standards based...
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My latest find (this one courtesy of Paul Madar, General Manager of the Macromedia Developer Solutions Group) Marriott Hotels is using ColdFusion on their Mid Atlantic Marriott site at http://www.midatlanticmarriott.com/.
If you use Web Services (either publishing or consuming them) then this one will be of interest to you, a CFMX hot fix which provides SOAP header support is now available. This hot fix adds three new functions that may be used from within CFC methods: GetRequestHeader() is used to get a SOAP...
So, any bloggers planning on attending MAX? We're working on a centralized blog aggregator for all MAX related blogs (product stuff, session comments, thoughts, photos, gossip, you name it). The intent is to both to record the MAX experience, and to share MAX with those who might not be attending....