Here is the official current listing of actual Adobe ColdFusion Team member blogs, for the record: ColdFusion Team Member Blogs: Damon Cooper Ben Forta Tom Jordahl Tim Buntel Dean Harmon Ashwin Matthew Ahmed Patan Rupesh Kumar Prayank Swaroop Steven Erat And the two main ColdFusion-centric Blog Aggregators: Adobe XML Blog Aggregator Fullasagoog Damon

NIKKEI Computer is one of the most respected IT magazines in Japan and Adobe ColdFusion is "#1" in the Web Application Servers category in their 2006 11th annual Customer Satisfaction Survey results. Here's a link to a shortened PDF version of the survey results (in Japanese with key portions annotated in English): CS survey by Nikkei Computer2006_short ver2.pdf ColdFusion won #1 for performance, reliability, productivity of application development, and total CS points.

Ray Camden has created a site for ColdFusion developers analogous to the site Adobe created for Flex developers at http://www.flex.org.

The ColdFusion Server engineering team in Newton, MA is hiring. Recognizing that employees are at the core of our success, Adobe recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creates an environment where they can innovate and achieve their best, and rewards them for their performance by giving them an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

The ColdFusion extensions for FlexBuilder 2 include the ability to generate complete, best practice, working CRUD applications with ColdFusion as the backend, and generates all the Flex 2 client tier, middle tier and backend code required, and even creates the FlexBuilder project for you.

In the spirit of openness, we've published the final ColdFusion 7.0.2 Product Security Audit Report given to us by the 3rd party security firm, IRM, used to examine ColdFusion 7.0.2 for potential vulnerabilities, here: ColdFusion 7.0.2 IRM Security Audit Whitepaper We'll try to make a practice of publishing the full final reports from our external product vulnerability audits for future releases from now on as well.

I have a few quick questions for ColdFusion Developers out there: 1) Which IDE(s) are you currently using for ColdFusion development? (IE Dreamweaver, CF Studio, FlexBuilder/Eclipse/CFEclipse, Notepad, other, etc) 2) What IDE's have you used in the past (and why did you switch)?, and 3) Which IDE would you LIKE to be using if you could wave a "magic wand" and make ANY changes you wanted to your IDE of choice? What are those changes?

Blogs have been lighting up this past week with lots of great discussion around what folks would like to see (or not!) in future versions of ColdFusion. Just a quick note to let everyone know on the affirmative: we're listening, reading pretty much every single post down to the last comments made by readers of those blogs, and let me just reassure folks that everything (yes, absolutely everything) gets considered.

Our development engineers are called “Scientists” at Adobe which is cool because it means that we understand the importance of experimentation.  Like all good scientists, we hypothesize and test – some things make it into the product, others don’t – but we’re always innovating.

You no longer need to try to merge or jam Flex jars and web app into a CF web app instance with Flex 2 and CF 7.0.2. With Flex 1.5, you wanted to do this in some cases, but this is no longer required now with Flex 2. I suspect there's two reasons folks have been trying to do this: 1) either because of their Flex 1.5 + CF history (and they just assumed they needed to do the same with Flex 2), or 2) because they wanted to use FDS and Flash Remoting calls in the same Flex 2 app with CF as the back end.