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April 20, 2005

CFMX7 Hot Fix 2 Available

Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion MX 7 is available for download, details at http://www.macromedia.com/go/fd71533. This Hot Fix is cumulative (it includes Hot Fix 1).

Kevin Lynch: ColdFusion Is "Core DNA Of Our Company"

Today's SD Times News "News On Thursday" opened with a brief story on the Adobe Macromedia announcement, and included quotes by Macromedia's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch. The following is a copy and paste of the 3rd paragraph of the interview: He called ColdFusion and J2EE "the core DNA of...

Adobe Using ColdFusion

This one is definitely worthy of a mention, Adobe uses ColdFusion on their public site. A quick search found two instances, a customer service page , and a secured exchange site , and I am sure there are more. This is definitely good to see!

Experimenting With Flash Form Styles

The look of Flash Forms can be controlled using styles. To help fine tune style selections, I threw this quick and dirty form together. It allows you to set eight style settings, the results of which are immediately reflected in a sample button control. Note that I am using the setStyle() method to...

IBM Online Shopping Powered by ColdFusion MX

Personal Pages for IBM Customers is IBM's online store for parts, accessories, and even entire systems. And the site is powered by ColdFusion MX.

Detroit News Using ColdFusion MX

My local newspaper, The Detroit News , appears to be using ColdFusion MX. Most of the links on the site have .htm extensions, but click on any of the CyberSurveys, and .cfm it is.

Another Ben Forta, Or An Imposter?

Someone just sent me a link to a thread on a site named Shiny Donkey . I have no idea what a Shiny Donkey is, or why they'd have a poll about facial hair, but apparently someone named "Ben Forta" with an e-mail address of bforta@geekprime.com hangs out over there. And yes, I do have a beard, but...

Logitech Powered by ColdFusion

This is not a new one, but I was on the Logitech site today and was reminded that it is powered by ColdFusion, and has been for many years now. This is a massive site, supporting lots of products, in numerous languages and locales. And it is lightning fast, too!

Adobe+Macromedia, What Does It Mean For ColdFusion?

Since the announcement hit the wire this morning, the various ColdFusion related lists have been buzzing with rumors, speculation, and predictions. Of course, that is all they are, rumors, speculation, and predictions. I don't think anyone really knows what this means for any product yet, and it'll...

Mike Chambers on Macromedia-Adobe Deal

I am not going to comment on the big Macromedia-Adobe announcement today, but Mike Chambers has posted thoughts and context that are well worth reading .