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New Atlanta Does The Unthinkable!!

11 Mar 01:25
Wow! Vince I have to give you and the entire New Atlanta Team a big high five, raise my glass, slap on the butt, or whatever your favorite congratulatory “thing” may be. With this blog post you did something which Adobe couldn’t or didn’t know how to. You Open Sourced CF. Ok so you didn’t [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 27 Feb-4 Mar: Fun with CFGRID

6 Mar 01:36
Something a bit different to start off this week: Daemon, the people behind the FarCry CMS/framework, the Fullasagoog RSS aggregator (where much of the material for this column is found) and the WebDU conference, are attempting to get the FarCry codebase into the Google Summer of Code program. If successful, it will be the first [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 20-26 Feb: it’s a little AIRy around here

28 Feb 01:19
The RSS tubes were clogged this week with news of the 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, the desktop client for rich internet applications, and Flex 3. It’s exciting news for sure, but I probably didn’t need to read about it 40-50 times over! Fortunately, I managed to find some ColdFusion news out there too… Before I [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 13-19 Feb: Hidden gems

21 Feb 13:32
The Software and Information Industry Association have announced the Codie Awards finalists for 2008 - and ColdFusion 8 is listed in the Best Web Services Solution category.  The winners are revealed in May. One for the Mac users: the built-in rich text editor in ColdFusion 8 uses FCKEditor - but at the time when CF8 was [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 6-12 Feb: Spreading the ColdFusion love

15 Feb 02:05
Fresh blogging blood: Adam Lehaman, previously Adobe’s “ColdFusion Specialist”, is now a full time ColdFusion Evangelist - and he’s also relaunched his blog, Adrocknaphobia. I had the pleasure of seeing Adam present during the CFCAMP event in Perth late last year, so I can tell you he’s really good at what he does. Also on [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 30 Jan-5 Feb: a bit of everything

7 Feb 00:46
With January gone, the year is really starting to swing into gear, and ColdFusion blogs are busier than ever. In the coding department, Steve Nelson continues his series on using the Google Calendar API with Google Calendar API - Creating a new Calendar with ColdFusion and Google Calendar API: Using ColdFusion to get a list of [...

The Week in ColdFusion: 23-29 Jan: Putting CF developers on the map

31 Jan 09:53
Want to know where all the ColdFusion developers are? CFMaps is a Yahoo! Maps mashup that allows ColdFusion developers to place themselves on the map, color-coded according to their level of experience. Right now, most registrations are in North America - so if you’re a CF guy or gal, why not add yourself to the [...

The week in ColdFusion: 16-22 Jan 08: exam time!

24 Jan 01:09
So what does the blogosphere have for hard-working ColdFusion developers this week? Firstly, open source projects have been busy. More information about the upcoming version 5 of the FarCry CMS – “FarCry Fortress” – has been released, and it will now have a variety of deployment options which will mean that it can run more [...

The week in ColdFusion: 9–15 Jan 08: Survey Mania

16 Jan 23:10
Big news this week: Obviously well into planning mode for ColdFusion 9, Adobe is seeking end user feedback through a series of surveys. From Adobe “Director of Engineering” Damon Cooper’s blog, there’s firstly the ColdFusion IDE survey: The Adobe ColdFusion team would like to understand more about how you develop CFML code, [...

ColdFusion Technical Journals, Past and Present

4 Dec 14:06
The latest issue of Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (FAQU), the only print journal on ColdFusion, is now available from Fusion Authority. First, a bit of background. Once upon a time, there was a ColdFusion magazine, The ColdFusion Developer’s Journal (CFDJ). Produced as part of a stable of technical journals by publishing company Sys-Con Media, it was [...
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