March 19, 2005
This find sent to me by Brett Liotta. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is a leading supplier or lawn care and gardening products, and their Web site is all powered by ColdFusion (some parts using Fusebox). There's nice use of search-engine safe URLs in this site, too.
March 17, 2005
This find sent to me by Lucas Sherwood. Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) are the folks behind standards and interoperability used in learning tools and course content on a global scale. The ADL Web Site is powered by ColdFusion MX and Fusebox.
March 16, 2005
Hasbro is a leading toy and games manufacturer, the company responsible for brands like Tonka Trucks , Playskool , and Milton Bradley , and games like Monopoly , Risk , Scrabble , Operation , and Trivial Pursuit . All of these links and sites, and many more, are all powered by ColdFusion MX. Thanks...
March 15, 2005
Most of us (and not just CFers) build applications with inline processing, For example, if a user uploads a file we process it in the ACTION page while the user waits. Or if a report needs to be generated we create it while the user waits. Or if we need to send out a batch of e-mail messages ......
March 14, 2005
I have been visiting lots of customers recently, primarily demonstrating ColdFusion MX 7 functionality. One question that keeps cropping up (particularly from customers who have been looking at Macromedia Flex) is "why would I need Flex if I have Flash Forms in ColdFusion MX 7?". I've written about...
March 14, 2005
Visa Corporation has been using ColdFusion internally for a long time (the very first ColdFusion class that I taught way back when was at Visa). Patrick Flynn e-mailed to let me know that Visa is using ColdFusion on a public facing site too. The Visa Extras customer loyalty program site is powered...
March 14, 2005
Join Macromedia Senior Software Engineer Tom Jordahl who will lead this live technical discussion on ColdFusion Event Gateways. ColdFusion has long been the easiest way to create applications that respond to Web requests from web browsers. ColdFusion 7.0 opens up a whole new world of applications...
March 12, 2005
I'll be all over the Northeast this week, and will get the opportunity to present to the Hartford, CT, ColdFusion User Group on Tuesday March 15th. Details are on the user group web page . I hope to see you there!
March 9, 2005
Ray Ozzie (best known as the creator of Lotus Notes) created Groove Networks to create software to simplify how groups work together, and Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Groove Networks. Several of you have written to tell me that the Groove Networks Web Site is powered by ColdFusion.
March 7, 2005
Murat, from MMIstanbul (the Istanbul Macromedia User Group) has posted my Introduction to ColdFusion MX 7 article translated into Turkish . UPDATE: New URL is http://mmistanbul.com/makaleler/index.cfm?makale_id=48 .