This is an example that I used when demonstrating ColdFusion 8 .NET integration on the recent usergroup tour, and as requested, I am posting it publicly. GetDriveInfo() returns a query containing specifics about the hard drives on your server, it returns all drives unless an optional drive letter...
HostMySite (actually, they do indeed host my site) is offering free ColdFusion 8 hosting for the duration of the beta. Details posted online .
InfoWorld has posted a great story on ColdFusion 8 , and it includes this quote from Gartner: The ColdFusion upgrade puts to rest questions about Adobe's commitment to the technology after acquiring Macromedia, said analyst Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and Web services at...
After a 7 year hiatus, ColdFusion once again has an interactive debugger, and this time it is built on top of Eclipse (and uses the same debugging interface as Flex Builder, and other Eclipse plug-ins). If you are interested in taking the debugger for a spin, here's what you need to know to get...
The ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse include RDS panels, a Services Browser panel, a CF Log Viewer, RDS support, help, wizards, and of course the interactive debugger. These extensions are available for download along with ColdFusion 8 and will be distributed with the product when it ships. To...
Ahamad Patan, a member of the ColdFusion team in Bangalore, has launched a blog entitled CFPDF , which, as its name suggests, will cover the new PDF support in ColdFusion 8 .
This just in, the public beta of ColdFusion 8 (aka Scorpio) is up on Labs! Get it now!
Earlier this week I mentioned that ColdFusion Scorpio would be including Apache Derby, and since that post I have been tinkering with the two on and off. Apache Derby is a Java based open source DBMS, and it is generally used in one of two ways: As a client server DBMS, Derby runs on a variety of...
First Ray's cryptic coffee message , then Damon posts this ... Do you think? ... nah, couldn't be! ;-)
Ray Camden has posted a cryptic message suggesting that you start drinking coffee because it'll be a late night. Hummmm.