Below is a freshly posted article from InfoWorld regarding persistent Adobe ColdFusion momentum, the 64-bit update, and the upcoming 2009 Centaur release by Paul Krill: Check it out here: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/03/11/Adobe-ColdFusion-warming-to-64-bit-OSes_1.

Apparently, in the second declaration as "winner" in just this last week, (Adobe ColdFusion 8 won the coveted 18th Annual Dr Dobbs "Jolt" award...see esarly post on that), New Atlanta has essentially conceded to Adobe ColdFusion and has decided to open source it's BlueDragon product and essentially get out of the business, from what I can gather from the announcement today.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 has been announced as the winner of the ?Web Development Tools? category of the Dr. Dobb?s 18th Annual Jolt Awards. Winners will be featured in the June issue of Dr. Dobb?s Journal. For the full list of winners, take a look here: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/portal/archives/2008/03/jolt_award_winn.html As the Director of Engineering for the Adobe ColdFusion engineering and QA teams that built ColdFusion 8, I'm obviously very, very proud of what we accomplished.

SitePoint has published an article by Brian Rinaldi entitled, "ColdFusion 8: Believe the Hype". Check it out here: http://www.sitepoint.

I'm obviously a little slow off the mark on blogging this one, but in case you haven't already seen this and wanted to help spread the word about ColdFusion in your own organization, or send to your colleagues in other organizations running behind schedule and over budget, this is a great place to start: http://www.trycoldfusion.

Jared Rypka-Hauer interviewed Bruce Chizen, then-Adobe CEO about ColdFusion 8. The piece was published Feb 20, 2008, and you can read it here: http://www.fusionauthority.com/community/4729-community-chronicles-0-2.

The Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) recently announced the Codie Awards Finalists for 2008, and Adobe ColdFusion 8 has made the short list. This is basically the software industry's equivalent to of the the "Grammy's", and it's a fantastic honor to be nominated and make the Finalist short list, especially having been part of the awesome team that produced Adobe ColdFusion 8.

Several people have asked about the availability of Adobe ColdFusion 8 hardcopy documentation, and many people may not be aware that 1) the ColdFusion 8 doc set is absolutely top-notch excellent, and 2) the FULL library of all hardcopy ColdFusion 8 books is available for sale at Adobe cost ($50 US) at the Adobe online store here.

We'd like your feedback! First, though, I'll note that Adobe ColdFusion 8 continues it's UNBELIEVABLE adoption curve without sign of letting up, and we now have the all-OS 64-bit platform support firmly in Beta now for 8.0.1, code-named "Gemini". So it's time once again to turn our sights to the horizon and get your input on what the ColdFusion team should focus on next, and we'd love your input: Adobe ColdFusion Features Survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?

The Adobe ColdFusion team would like to understand more about how you develop CFML code, what tools you currently use, what features you look for, use and would like in a IDE. The survey is very short and to-the-point and can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=321RrO9_2fWaP_2bdYMnmF9CuQ_3d_3d Please do take a minute or two to fill it out if your shop uses ColdFusion at all. Thanks in advance!