On January 1st 2008, the US Senate's lobbyist reform bill ( S.1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 ) went into effect. The bill is designed to provide greater transparency in the legislative process, and requires full disclosure pertaining to lobbying activities. So what does...
I just received a great message from a ColdFusion developer at The Economist , and just had to share it: Hi Ben, I thought I'd let you know that Economist.com has finished it's port to ColdFusion 8 across the whole live cluster and we have seen a reduction in page generation time of around 20%...
Ok, so the title may be a bit of a stretch. ;-) But ... without venturing into political specifics, it is cool to see that GOP front runner Mike Huckabee is using ColdFusion (and Fusebox) to power his website ! Thanks to Prayank Swaroop for pointing this one out.
The official National Telecommunications and Information Administration Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program web site is powered by ColdFusion.
Luis Majano notes that NASA JPL has committed to ColdBox . NASA JPL is a long time ColdFusion customer, on one visit there I saw code written in DBML!
Web Host Industry Review has posted a page entitled Choosing a ColdFusion Host , which provides a basic overview of ColdFusion, and then some pointers on what to look for when choosing a hosting company. The article explains that customers may not need to buy a license if they use a hosted...
My local bank, LaSalle Bank Midwest, has merged with Bank of America. As many of you know, BofA uses lots of public facing ColdFusion, so this was no surprise, but it's still good to see - the official LaSalle Bank-Bank of America Merger page is powered by ColdFusion. Hey, if you need to get a page...
Rachel Unck of Rick Steves' Europe wrote to tell me about this really nice example of at work .
Mark Lynch e-mailed me to let me know that he has blogged about a project his company has been working on . The application delivers mobile phone and IM based learning solutions, uses VoiceXML and Jabber/XMPP, and is powered by ColdFusion. Cool stuff!
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