With the changes to Daylight Savings Time in the U.S., some of you have been asking about how this impacts ColdFusion. The following technotes explain all: ColdFusion 5 ColdFusion MX 6 and 7 (and JRun) General comments on DST with CF6 and up
The first two weeks of our upcoming spring pre- Scorpio usergroup tour have been finalized. Here are the names and dates of the first 7 venues: April 23: Seattle, WA April 24: San Francisco, CA April 25: Denver, CO April 30: Dallas, TX May 1 (midday): Austin, TX May 1: Houston, TX May 2: Phoenix,...
Steve Moore of Larimer County, CO, wrote to tell me about the Property Explorer application he's created for viewing all information related to property records in Larimer County. This is a ColdFusion powered Flex 2 app which combines 3 different databases and multiple separate web pages into one...
City of Canton, GA, is a long time ColdFusion customer. Years ago they built an online bill payment system for Canton's 17,000 residents, and now they are also using Flex. Baseline is running a story about City of Canton and how pleased they are that Adobe has kept the best of Macromedia (including...
Ray Camden just noted that he posted an update to RIAForge to support screenshots of which thumbnails are automatically generated. How did he perform this magic? By running RIAForge on a prerelease version of Scorpio (and no, that's not usually allowed, but we love Ray, or so we'd like him to...
I will be in Brussels next month for meetings with the European Commission (the largest ColdFusion customer in Europe). While I am there I'll have the opportunity to chat with ColdFusion developers, and to sneak some Scorpio . The event is scheduled for February 14th, and registration is required .
For about a decade now, my ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit has been the de facto standard used by virtually all new ColdFusion developers, and by many who want to brush up their skills as ColdFusion is updated and enhanced. This book (and its Advanced sequel ) in many ways helped define...
Here is your opportunity to apply to join the Scorpio prerelease program .
Practical eCommerce is running a story about Teri Gault, and a system she developed to help shoppers save money by best leveraging shopping coupons. Trying to help her family through financial difficulties in the late 90s, Teri became an expert on how to best take advantage of shopping coupons. And...
The ColdFusion MX 7 demo page now features a new Captivate demo showing how to use the ColdFusion Flex Application Wizard. A new ColdFusion MX 7 Performance Brief has also been posted.