| This feed does not validate. (details) 6 May 00:58 Frameworks are a favorite topic of mine. Just to get everyone on the same page, Wikipedia says a framework is “a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues”. Put more simply in application development terms, a framework is a set of files (code), conventions and best practices designed to help structure code [... 2 May 02:19 Resources Because that’s just the kind of guy he is, Charlie Arehart keeps a massive list of tools and resource of interest to ColdFusion developers - over 700 resources in over 100 categories. This week Charlie highlights the categories in his mammoth link collection. Come back when you’re through all that! Subscribers to MXNA, the RSS feed [... 25 Apr 01:36 Welcome to the 15th “Week in ColdFusion” wrap-up! I hope that I’m saving people time, or at least pointing out some handy posts you might have missed. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment. Too long? Too short? Not enough of X? Too much Y? I’d love to hear it! Best Practices Onto the posts: [... 18 Apr 00:41 For some reason, the blogosphere absolutely exploded this week. Even if you subscribe to MXNA, Fullasagoog or one of the other CF blog aggregators, check this list out to see if you missed anything… The hype over the ColdFusion 8.0.1 release has died down a little, and there were a handful of items this week discussing [... 11 Apr 00:24 Obviously the big news this week was that the first ColdFusion updater, 8.0.1, was released - and was subsequently re-announced by seemingly every blog in MXNA and Fullasagoog! In between all the announcements were some posts exploring the new features: Ray Camden shows how it’s now easier to add PDF watermarks Brian Rinaldi and Barney Boisvert debate [... 4 Apr 15:11 After a long beta cycle, ColdFusion 8.0.1 is now available! The updater incorporates a heap of fixes and enhancements which you can read about in the release notes (PDF) and FAQ. Notably, 64-bit support has been added to almost every platform - a feature that many organisations were waiting for - and JDK support has [... 4 Apr 00:18 On BlueDragon Open Source: Vince Bonfanti, President of New Atlanta, has announced that BlueDragon Open Source will be unveiled at the cf.Objective() conference in May. Vince also speaks his mind on the latest instalment of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast, and is interviewed by Dan Wilson in this dzone article. From the Adobe camp: CF Product Manger [... 28 Mar 00:26 Lots of Adobe news: First, this week has been Adobe Developer Week, with three ColdFusion sessions being run by Adam Lehman. Don’t worry if you’ve missed them - Adam assures us that they will be recorded, and he will post the locations once they are available. Still from Adobe: the web site for the 2008 [... 20 Mar 00:53 More fallout from the BlueDragon open source announcement of last week: New Atlanta President Vince Bonfanti attempts to clear up some misconceptions; Allan Williamson gives an example of how the new open source version can be used by developers in conjuction with Amazon Web Services, and calls for community involvement in BlueDragon’s future; Michael Sharman [... 13 Mar 10:35 Without doubt the biggest news this week has been the announcement by New Atlanta that they are open-sourcing the J2EE edition of BlueDragon, one of their CFML server products. Other editions will remain as commercial products. The reactions from around the blogosphere have ranged from the enthusiastic gushing of SitePoint blogger Eric Jones in New [... | 