Adobe Developer Connection has published an article by Mark Mandel entitled An introduction to ColdFusion frameworks . Mark introduces MVC options, ColdSpring and LightWire, as well as persistence frameworks include Transfer and Reactor.
HostMySite (who actually do host my site) has announced that they are offering hosting on ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses for $149 per month.
If you are running Cold Fusion on J2SE 1.4, please read this tech note regarding Sun's End-of-Life announcement. This primarily affects ColdFusion 7 and JRun 4, and should not be an issue at all if you are running ColdFusion 8.
ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has created the ColdFusion Evangelism Kit , an 8 page PDF document that helps explain the how's and why's of ColdFusion. This will be posted to Adobe.com at some point, but for now you can grab it from Kristen's blog .
ColdFusion 8 added .NET integration , making it possible for CFML code to invoke .NET classes locally or remotely. The feature obviously won't appeal to all users, but for those in organizations using both ColdFusion and .NET it does open up some very interesting doors. I've posted examples of how...
Jared Rypka-Hauer IM'd me a while back with some questions on modifying ColdFusion Administrator to use LDAP authentication. The truth is that this is something I wanted for CF8 when we added support for multiple logins with different levels of access, but that feature never made it in for that...
We're hosting eSeminars on both ColdFusion and Flex, with the first session (ColdFusion-powered Rich Internet Applications) tomorrow at 2:00pm US East Coast time. Details are posted online for the Adobe ColdFusion 8 eSeminar Series and the Adobe Flex eSeminar Series for Developers .
I am in Bangalore, India, for the rest of the week. The primary reason for the visit is to present at the Adobe RIA Developer Summit , a two day paid event that starts tomorrow (and all attendees get a full copy of Flex Builder which costs more than the event registration fee, nice deal). There is...
Max Leynov pinged me to let me know that he's added CFML support to open source text editor project EditArea .
A while back we announced that ColdFusion was going to be free for educational use. It's taken longer than we'd have liked to iron out the kinks. But, the ColdFusion 8 for Education site is now up and running and ready for your use. This offer is for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise, and is available...