The Japan Flex User Group hit a major milestone last week, announcing that they now have 1500 registered members, 1000 topics, and 5000 posts - pretty impressive considering that they started in December 2005. Although concentrating primarily on Flex and Flex Builder, they also cover AIR, LiveCycle...
I was unable to attend the "Promoting ColdFusion Outside of the ColdFusion Community" BOF at MAX last week. But Brian Meloche has posted notes that are worth reading.
Considering the last time Computerworld mentioned ColdFusion, this new story on ColdFusion 8 is a significant step in the right direction.
During the MAX 2007 keynote this morning, Kevin Lynch let slip that we are working on the next major ColdFusion, codenamed "Centaur".
Peachpit and Adobe Press are handing out flyers at MAX 2007 promoting the new ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit books. For those of you not at MAX, the flyer announces that you can save 35% by pre-ordering volumes 2 and 3 from Peachpit directly. Use coupon code PPT-PBM-1145.
Wow, what a day. This is the first opportunity I've had to get online all day! As many others have noted, MAX 2007 in Chicago is huge! The venue the sheer number of people, the number of concurrent events and sessions, the lunch room ... this is MAX on a scale never seen before. During the keynote...
Yesterday (while I was offline) Adobe launched the new Adobe Developer Connection - the new consolidated portal with everything you need to build on our platform and products, all wrapped in a slick ColdFusion powered DHTML interface. Very cool stuff indeed, check it out!
FuseTalk Inc has announced version 3.1 of their flagship FuseTalk forums software. This new version adds new features (including blogging support), and has been tested on ColdFusion 8 where "average page time and requests per second turned in a whopping 50% improvement".
A "Get Started with ColdFusion 8 in 30 Minutes" tutorial has been posted online, and can be downloaded from ColdFusion Developer Center Downloads page . The PDF tutorial steps are also online .
Way back when, during the usergroup tour, when first introducing ColdFusion 8 server monitoring , I repeatedly made the point that different parts of the feature were intended for different purposes, and that the "Memory Tracking" option was not to be used on production boxes (it's intended for use...