I just spent a long time troubleshooting a Flex ColdFusion connectivity issue, and now that we've figured out what was going on I am sharing this in case it bites anyone else. There are two basic ways for Flex to invoke back-end ColdFusion CFCs, SOAP (Web Services) or AMF (Flash Remoting). My app...
eWeek is running a review of ColdFusion MX 7 . The summary states: While maintaining the easy tagging and clean, effective language that have been the hallmarks of previous versions, Macromedia's ColdFusion MX 7 is now a much more powerful and enterprise-class solution for creating and delivering...
We're always noting ColdFusion dominance within U.S. government agencies, and often neglect to mention ColdFusion's use by governments in other countries. Here's one worth noting. The United Kingdom Parliament site is powered by ColdFusion.
Apparently this blog is neither new nor updated frequently, but ... it looks like the Mustang team at Ford Motor Company is blogging , and the blog is powered by ColdFusion MX.
The Blizzard Fan Club is the club for fans of Dairy Queen Blizzard Treats. The Blizzard Fan Club site is powered by ColdFusion MX. Thanks to Troy Pullis for this one.
I've mentioned this one before, but never blogged it to date. The online home of The United States Mint is powered by ColdFusion. Thanks to Paul Hastings for reminding me of this one.
The European Commission and Microsoft don't get along, we know that. And I'll not comment on the actual disagreements (although there is much about them that I find troubling). Last year the European Commission found that Microsoft had abused its OS near-monopoly, fined the company €500m, and...
Vodafone is one of the world's top providers of telecommunications services. In 1985 Vodafone powered the very first mobile phone call made in the UK, and the company now has a customer base of over 100 million, and equity interests and partner networks in 36 countries. The Vodafone online store is...
The Flash Forms calendar controls can restrict selectable date ranges. Fixes dates can be specified using the startRange and endRange attributes, but what if you need to programmatically change the ranges at runtime? The following example does just that, it uses two calendar controls to prompt for...
When you think of Detroit you think of the automobile industry, Motown, various sports teams ... and probably not ColdFusion or Macromedia. Well, at least not initially. The fact of the matter is that there is a whole lot of Macromedia product being used in the area, and lots of ColdFusion too. And...