I just saw the ColdFusion 8 public beta download numbers for the first week since it went up on Labs. I can't share actual numbers, but I can tell you that in that first week we had more downloads than what we had expected overall for the entire public beta period! Awesome!
Mark Drew has posted CF8 syntax dictionaries for CFEclipse , giving Eclipse awareness of and support for the CFML changes and enhancements in CF8.
With lots of help and prodding from our own Ray Camden , Yahoo has launched a ColdFusion Developer Center .
My local paper, the Detroit Free Press, is running a wonderful story that should be read by educators everywhere. Bradford Academy is a local charter school serving 1100 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. A year or so ago, 75 seventh graders were given the opportunity to turn school...
Derek Vaughan has posted an article on ColdFusion 8 over on TheHostingNews.com.
I was trying to use the ColdFusion 8 Ajax debugger and could not get it to pop up, despite having that option enabled and my IP address (127.0.0.1) in the debug IP address list. Eventually I discovered (by mistake) that if I used "127.0.0.1" in the URL then debugging worked, but if I used...
has been part of ColdFusion since CF2 - originally a Java applet, and then a Flash control, and in ColdFusion 8 an HTML tree control with powerful Ajax support. To demonstrate how to use the new HTML , here is an example that will let you browse the file system tree on your server. What makes this...
Ajax type applications allow developers to update parts of a web page without needing to refresh the entire page. Click on a link and another area of the screen is updated, click a toggle arrow to expand and collapse an inline detail box, submit a form and receive confirmation without updating the...
Ben Nadel has posted several really useful entries on the new tag ( Part I - Data Exchange , Part II - Parallel Threads , Part III - Set It And Forget It ). Nice job, Ben!
Jonathan Wall (developer relations guy, and a member of the team since Allaire days) has attended every MAX (and DevCon and Allaire Developer's Conference) since 2000. Which means I have him beat, as I attended the first event in 1999 in Boston. I also have the privilege and distinction of being...