Visitors to the Anaheim area (where MAX 2005 will take place) can contact The Anaheim / Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau to learn about what to do, where to eat, and more. And, of course, the site is powered by ColdFusion. Thanks to Steve Ray for sending this one my way.
"Merrimack" is the codename for the ColdFusion MX7 updater in beta right now. The updater adds support for additional Linux flavors, Oracle AS, Mac OSX and WebSphere ND. It also updates some of the 3rd party bits (thereby fixing some bugs) and properly exposes CFCProxy (used to invboke CFCs from...
Macromedia gives employees a six week sabbatical every four years, time to switch off, unwind, reset, and refresh. I've been eligible for my sabbatical for almost two years, but with product launches and being on the road, I have never been able to block out six consecutive weeks. Until now. I'll...
We regularly comment on ColdFusion use within the US federal government. But ColdFusion is also used by governments agencies and organizations at all levels, including state and local. Here is an example of ColdFusion use in each and every one of the 50 states: Alabama: Alabama Secretary of State...
The folks at Daemon have posted details on how to use ColdFusion MX 7 to generate FlashPaper content for your Flex apps.
I've posted some pictures from the ColdFusion birthday party online. Steve Erat also posted a video .
When folks ask me where I work, and hear the response "Macromedia", there are usually one of two responses. More technical folks respond with "oh, Flash". And less technical folks tell me they have never heard of the company, until I mention Flash, and then they respond "oh yeah". Earlier this...
Apparently, a letter written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI in April, condemns Harry Potter as a potentially corrupting influence on children. Accusing the stories of "subtle seduction", the then Cardinal felt that the series corrupts the young, distorting...
With the release of the long awaited Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince this Saturday, students at The Holt Primary School in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire (in England) were planning to come to school on Friday dressed up as witches and wizards. But the BBC is reporting that head-teacher Paul...
This evening we celebrated ColdFusion's 10th birthday (the birthday was actually July 10th, but that was a Sunday) with a party in the appropriately named Minnesota room in the Macromedia Newton office. Lots of ColdFusion's founding fathers joined us, including JJ and Jeremy Allaire, Charles...