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...
Part III of Charlie Arehart's ColdFusion 8 Server Monitoring series is online on the Adobe Developer connection. This time Charlie explains Automated monitoring and request management with Alerts and Snapshots .
ColdFusion 8 ships with an embedded Apache Derby engine, which is used by the ColdFusion example applications, and can also be used for your own applications (and indeed, is used for all example applications in the CF8 edition of ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit ). Information on Apache...
Rey Bango has posted a great Ajaxian entry on Scott Bennett's demonstrations of extending the ColdFusion 8 Ajax data grid.
Amazon.com has created a feature page highlighting the 3 new ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit books (as well as SQL books that may be of interest to ColdFusion developers).
Macworld (in the UK) has posted a review of ColdFusion 8 . And, the site (as well as the review page itself) is powered by ColdFusion. Cool!
Last night I said that CFWACK 8 Volume 2 - Application Development would be shipping soon. Well, Volume 2 is now shipping, I received my copies this morning. Some of the new content includes coverage of working with images, PDF manipulation and processing, thread management, and Flex integration....
We ran into some delays with the final volume of the updated ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. But, the good news is that Volume 3 is done, and should be available before the end of the year. (Volume 2 before that). Links to the new 3 volume series are online . Oh, and I am not supposed...
A user sent me some code he was having trouble with, and in the code I saw a rather verbose and complex block of CFML being used to generate random strings for use with CAPTCHA verifications. So, while replying to his e-mail, I also sent him the RandString() function I use myself. And, as it may be...
I recently mentioned that we were working on a ColdFusion update that would add Mac OSX Leopard support, as well as support for 64bit OSs (beyond the current Solaris support). ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has just announced that the beta for this update has begun.