In the US for 2007, the US Energy Policy Act of 2005 moves DST observances from the second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November. "Studies" will apparently determine if this remains permanent, but if you're running applications on ColdFusion MX 6.1 or ColdFusion MX 7.x, you'll want to be on Sun's 1.4.2_11 (or later VM.) More info on DST here http://en.wikipedia.

This was an Adobe internal CF team email sent from Anne Sandstrom (CF Senior Technical Writer) that I thought I'd share.....enjoy :) ======= If you?ve opened this e-mail: a) You forgot that I do this every year. b) You're a glutton for punishment. c) You joined the team this past year and nobody thought to warn you. I?m sending this early to make sure no one escapes... :) ?Twas the night before Christmas Oh no, can it be? The annual helping of CF poetry Yes, it?

Yes, the Egg has been cracked (I'd heard rumors it had been cracked several times, but I think this is the first time I've seen it blogged and picked up by aggregators): http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/6/CF-Easter (If it makes anyone feel any better, here's my offical statement for any features-rights activists: "No features were harmed or sacrificed in the making of this [SWF] movie. All egging work was performed on closed courses with professional engineers, and on personal time.

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 is now available and includes important security fixes and fixes for some critical issues customers have reported. ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 Special thanks to Ken Smith and all the folks in CF Engineering and QA who fixed and tested this one. Good stuff guys.

Bookmark these handy sites for easy and frequent reference: Adobe LiveCycle: http://www.livecycleportal.org Adobe ColdFusion: http://www.coldfusionportal.org Adobe Flex: http://www.flex.

Not only is the Adobe ColdFusion Engineering Team busy with new software development, but of course we also spend a part of our time supporting existing customers and current versions of ColdFusion as well. Check out the latest batch of hotfixes, and keep an eye out for future hotfixes for Adobe ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_17883 We should have another batch of important hotfixes coming in the next few weeks as well...

From the ColdFusion portion of the Adobe MAX 2006 "Sneaks" Session on Thursday morning, here are a few Tim Buntel and Ben Forta (aka "Scorpio Man") photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?

Just a quick note to let you know what the Adobe ColdFusion Engineering team has been up to. We've been been a little silent recently, but rest assured whenever you see that happen, it means we're heads-down working on something good :) Most notably, we're preparing to rev Scorpio for testers with some of the biggest advances to ColdFusion in many years and a ton of other stuff you've asked for in the past as well.

Below is an update to the original CFTHREAD Proof of Concept (POC) that adds experimental multithreading support to CFML on ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 that Adobe Computer Scientist and ColdFusion Engineering Team developer extraordinaire, Rupesh Kumar put together in his own time for you to play with. Our development engineers are called “Scientists” at Adobe which is cool because it means that we understand the importance of experimentation.

The agenda for Adobe "MAX 2006" conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas October 23-26 is posted and registration is open. Go to event page for more info, including pre-conference events, agenda, hotel/travel and registration. A MAX 2006 Attendee FAQ is also available.