March 26, 2005
Looking for tips and tricks on using CFMX7 Flash Forms? Looking for those XForm examples I used in my demos? Mike Nimer (the Macromedia developer responsible for the new functionality) has created a site named CFFORM.com that is home to this and more. An RSS feed is available, too.
March 23, 2005
ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit (new sixth edition) is now shipping. This edition was co-authored by Ray Camden , Leon Chalnick, and Angela Buraglia . Details can be found on the book page .
March 22, 2005
A day before it is scheduled to ship, ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit has made Amazon.com's Early Adopter Computers & Internet , debuting and #2. As per Amazon, " These are the newest and coolest products our customers of Computers & Internet are buying. This list, updated...
March 21, 2005
This one sent to me by Terrence Ryan. Maramushi Newsmap is an application that visually represents the contents of the Google News news aggregator. The UI is all Flash, and the back-end is ColdFusion MX. Very cool app indeed.
March 21, 2005
The Venetian is one of the top Vegas hotels, and The Venetian web site is powered by ColdFusion MX (and uses Flash too). This one sent to me by two different users, Bill Rawlinson and Casey Franklin. Thanks!
March 21, 2005
Sandy Clark is writing a series for Fusion Authority on building sites using CSS. She is using pages from my site as examples, deconstructing them, and them, gradually converting them over to structured CSS. The first part of her series is now online .
March 21, 2005
For a truly astounding example of what can be accomplished using Flash Forms in CFMX7, check out AS Fusion's CF Presenter . And this is not even a form!
March 20, 2005
The ColdFusion DevCenter page has been translated for our Spanish and Italian sites. (Much of the linked content is in English).
March 20, 2005
Back when I first discussed the new Application event model exposed via Application.cfc, several users asked if inheritance would be supported. At the time I said no (at the time it wasn't). But actually, inheritance did make it in. For example, you could define an Application.cfc in the root of...
March 20, 2005
Over the weekend I installed Windows XP Professional 64bit RC2 on my AMD powered IBM IntelliStation A Pro . It took a while to find the correct 64bit video drivers, and I still have one device showing up as "unidentified" ... but that being said, the system is running nicely, and I have not found...