I am on my way to Los Angeles to take part in CS3: The Creative License Conference . I know what you are thinking, Ben at a design event?!?! Well, as it so happens, I am presenting a 1/2 day session on building Rich Internet Applications, and my session covers ColdFusion, Flex, and Apollo (oops, I...
Francisco Paulino (of CFUGBR ) has started translating some of my ColdFusion 8 blog posts into Portuguese .
Last week I mentioned that CF8 public beta downloads had already exceeded our expectations. I was looking at updated stats yesterday, and the downloads numbers are now significantly higher than when I made that post. That's phenomenal! But I also noticed something else of interest - of the versions...
ComputerWeekly is running a story Coldfusion offers a short curve to web development . Aside from some minor technical inaccuracies, the author seems to have gotten the core value proposition right, as in "Champions of ColdFusion say that the cost is quickly defrayed by the boost it gives to...
Damon Cooper has posted info and links on ColdFusion 8 supported platforms and system requirements.
The Fusebox folks are running a video contest , create a video presentation showing how to go from zero-to-app in a few short minutes using Fusebox and ColdFusion, and win a prize.
Manjukiran Pacchhipulusu is a ColdFusion QA Lead, and he's blogging on CF8 features. Bhakti Pingale is also on the ColdFusion QA team, and she's blogging on ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality.
I just saw the ColdFusion 8 public beta download numbers for the first week since it went up on Labs. I can't share actual numbers, but I can tell you that in that first week we had more downloads than what we had expected overall for the entire public beta period! Awesome!
Mark Drew has posted CF8 syntax dictionaries for CFEclipse , giving Eclipse awareness of and support for the CFML changes and enhancements in CF8.
With lots of help and prodding from our own Ray Camden , Yahoo has launched a ColdFusion Developer Center .