December 19, 2006
My desktop wallpaper is now a really cool piece artwork created by Roberto Riutort featuring the Scorpio pre-release logo. This one is red hot, or should that be hot red (actually, I think I'd have preferred for it to be in ColdFusion Blue rather than Adobe Red). If you'd like it for your computer...
December 11, 2006
Bluefish is an open source IDE intended for experienced web designers and programmers, and it supports a variety of programming languages, including ColdFusion. Check out these features and screenshots . Bluefish is supported on Linux, Solaris, OS-X, and more.
December 7, 2006
returns the number of rows retrieved by a SELECT operation in the recordcount variable, available in the CFQUERY structure or the specified RESULT structure. But what if you are performing INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations, how could you determine the number of rows affected? Well, apparently...
December 5, 2006
I just confirmed that I'll be attending, and presenting at, 360Flex , a new Flex conference scheduled for March 5th-7th 2007 at eBay's Town Hall Center in San Jose, CA. Other Adobe presenters include Matt Chotin, Ely Greenfield, Ted Patrick, Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, and Danny Dura. This...
December 5, 2006
Yep, there is an Easter Egg hidden in ColdFusion (all MX versions to date, 6.* and 7.*). Marcos Placona posted the details .
December 4, 2006
Wim Dewijngaert wrote to tell me that ColdFusion XML form components is now online. This new site sells DHTML components designed to be used with ColdFusion
December 3, 2006
Now that it looks like I'll be keeping my Samsung BlackJack (until I find something better, that is) I needed to install a Flash Player on this device. A preview release of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 (both Pocket PC and Smartphone) is up on Labs . Installation is simple enough. Once...
December 2, 2006
Ari Zanuto is one of the founding members of the Brazilian ColdFusion community, he's a former co-worker, and is an Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) Certified Instructor. Ari recently launched ZarMedia , a hosting company offering ColdFusion hosting (Windows 2003 based, running ColdFusion 7.0.2)....
November 30, 2006
I just spent some time helping a very irate customer. You know, the "ColdFusion sucks" "we're going to dump CF" "how can you sell this ****" brand of irate. The cause of all of this anger and frustration was very serious ColdFusion performance issues. And I am sure the individual has been under a...
November 30, 2006
Hal Helms has written an article entitled A New Vision for ColdFusion . For the most part, I agree with everything Hal says, although I don't really see this as a new vision, as much as being true to the original vision and intent. This one is recommend reading.