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ColdFusion in the News: July 20-30, 2008

Welcome to my first column on ColdFusion in the News, where I will cover ColdFusion as it appears in the mainstream press. If you have any news or articles that have appeared in the general IT world that touch on ColdFusion, please feel free to send them to me at editor@fusionauthority.com with the words ColdFusion News: in the subject line.

Google Experiments with ColdFusion and Flash

I've been noting the different Google experiments that have been taking place in the ColdFusion and Flash communities. Jared Rypka-Hauer, Scott Stroz and others have been experimenting with using ColdFusion MX 7 to communicate with Google Talk through the Jabber protocol. (Damon Cooper did a nice article collating information on that, and speculating on the different things that can be built using Jabber and Google.) There has been some talk of Flash experiments and applications, such as Kero's News search application for Flash Lite and FlashInsider's reports on putting SWF files into Google's sidebar and using the Jabber protocol to work with Flash and Google (not just with ColdFusion). All of these posts show that Macromedia's forethought in adding Jabber support to ColdFusion and Flash gives people using these technologies a jumpstart

Moving Up: ColdFusion to Macromedia Spectra

Christina Lamkin, Senior Technical Writer, Macromedia, Inc., shows us how to "get your feet wet" in Spectra by simply replacing ColdFusion code with Spectra code in a web site. "This technical brief addresses the prospect of converting selected elements of a ColdFusion Web site to Macromedia Spectra, and when and why this might be an acceptable alternative to rebuilding the full site in Macromedia Spectra. It provides a process for reviewing ColdFusion Web sites to determine which site elements are candidates for conversion to Macromedia Spectra entities."

Podcasting Comes to the ColdFusion Community

Recently, we've had, as Ray Camden calls it, a "podcasting explosion." Two very talented teams of ColdFusion developers have started podcasting on ColdFusion. (Podcasting is creating audio files and publishing them through a blog-type setting that allows people to be automatically notified when a new podcast exists.) The first team, Bryan Kaiser and Michael Haynie, are doing a very newsy community-oriented broadcast. They've taken some of the more interesting blog articles and trends in the ColdFusion world, and they both summarize and analyze the content. They've done three episodes so far. The first focused on MAX and lasted about 15 minutes, while the second went over a half hour and discussed a wide range of subjects, though the main focus of the episode was the rise of AJAX as a technology.

ColdFusion MX Brings Java to the Masses

A short review of ColdFusion MX by Brian Kotek -- He explains some of the new features and gives a link to a screenshot of the ColdFusion MX code compatibility analyzer.

ColdFusion and Linux: The Ultimate Remote Web Server Combination

By now, anyone in the CF community who's paying the least bit of attention knows that ColdFusion for Linux is just around the corner. In some ways, it's really nothing special; it's the same ColdFusion we have come to know and love, just on a different platform. In fact, there are a couple of features missing, like Verity and Advanced Security, due to lack of support for Linux in those components.

The ColdFusion Podcast Roundup: Thursday June 8, 2006

If you ask a ColdFusion developer what he or she likes about working with ColdFusion day to day, there's a better-than-average chance that one of the more common answers will be the sense of community.

ColdFusion Cookbook: New Open-Source Publication for the ColdFusion Community

Cookbooks are well known for providing easy, step-by-step instructions on how to perform various tasks in a language, as shown and explained by people who have actually successfully accomplished the tasks in the past. It is far easier to follow their instructions and to learn from their mistakes than to take the time and do it yourself.

Web Services Made Easy: Macromedia ColdFusion MX

Michael Hurwicz gives us a very useful and positive review of ColdFusion MX, taking a look at some of CFMX's SOAP features, security, XML support and Java features.

Macromedia Issues White Paper on Integrating Macromedia Generator and ColdFusion

Macromedia shows us how to add data-driven graphics to our ColdFusion sites, keeping them up to date and visually rich using Macromedia Generator. They have issued a white paper and tutorial to show us "how easy it is to integrate these two products and create dynamic sites."

Dreamweaver Lives up on MX-pectations

John Wilker, a well-known member of the ColdFusion community, comes up with this gem of an article listing the plusses and minuses of Dreamweaver MX. Dreamweaver ends up on the plus side of the equation chiefly because of some of its new features, and the ease by which you can "plug and play" other MX applications such as ColdFusion, Flash and Fireworks. These plusses overshadow DWMX's major disadvantages, which he cites as a major lack of speed and the disappearance of certain features that he enjoyed in Studio. Overall, a high recommendation for Dreamweaver MX.

Clustering Macromedia's Enterprise Application Servers with Alteon's ACEdirector Switch

Frank DeRienzo, Principal Technical Support Engineer, Macromedia, Inc., makes setting up a ColdFusion or JRun cluster behind a CSS 11000 easier with a series of well-documented steps. This article also deals with the specific requirements for running the CSS WebNS 4.0 keepalives HTTP HEAD and HTTP GET with ColdFusion servers.

Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia...

The news broke on Saturday, December 3, and Adobe posted the official announcement on their site on Monday, December 5. Adobe and Macromedia are finally one company, and we are no longer using Macromedia ColdFusion... We are now Adobe ColdFusion developers.

Adobe/ColdFusion News Brief, July 31, 2006

Sean Corfield briefly explained what caused the delays, but the new Fusebox 5 release is now available. Learn more at: http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Where_is_Fusebox_5

Crypto in ColdFusion

I want to start this article with a word of thanks to Allaire. After writing this article a few months back, I told them about it during a conversation concerning functions. They mentioned that they would show it to their new documentation team. I didn't hear back from them, but last week found a great article on both crypto and the Hash function (

New Security Patch Available for ColdFusion MX Sandbox Security

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CFUNITED Session: SQL Server 2005 for ColdFusion Developers

Jeremy Kadlec was filling in for a presenter who could not make it, and giving his session for him. There were a lot of buzz words here, but eventually we got to some interesting information.

Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips with ColdFusion

One of the realities of the high-paced technology world we live in is that no sooner do we invest in or learn a new technology than something else comes out to take its place. As developers, we've learned to try to use all of the resources at our disposal: user groups, formal training, books, mailing lists, blogs... whatever we can get our hands on to keep us in the know and sharpen our skills. No matter what method we use to expand our knowledge, learning is always easier and better when it's interactive - but sometimes interactive learning is impractical. If you don't have a local user group or the funds for an instructor-led course, how can you get that level of interaction while learning new skills?

Search Engine and User Readiness

Craig from ColdFusion Purists poses the question "How do we help visitors bookmark a specific part of the flash site?" He's speaking, of course, about a site with a holistic Flash interface, typically featuring a single page within which all content is displayed. Because these sites don't normally feature traditional html links that would send the browser to another URL, visitors and search engines can't bookmark or index specific sections or "pages" of the displayed content without some extra help from the programmer. Several methods to resolve this problem are described in the comments on his blog, some of which are linked below.

House of Fusion Announces Blog of Fusion!

House of Fusion is proud to offer free blogs to the ColdFusion community on our new multi-blog, Blog of Fusion (http://www.blogoffusion.com). Blog of Fusion is already in use by two of our reporters at MAX, Jared Rypka-Hauer and Ryan Hartwich. Brian Meloche, another reporter for Fusion Authority, is blogging at http://www.brianmeloche.com/blog/.

An Introduction to CSS and Structured Markup, Part I

Those who know me are probably slightly aware that besides programming in ColdFusion and Fusebox, I also tend to voice my opinion on two other subjects, Accessibility and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This is the first in a series of articles designed to introduce CSS to you. The series will examine the steps necessary to convert a site from the standard HTML that we are usually familiar with to a site that uses only CSS for all layout and styling.

CF and Linux: The Real Deal

This article is an outgrowth of my own puzzlement when reading "Linux ColdFusion Users Irate with Macromedia," a December 2 eWeek article by Darryl K. Taft (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,741132,00.asp). The article, which caused quite a storm on the CF-Linux and CF-Talk lists on House of Fusion (www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists), and on the MXDev list on Devmx.com, stated that "problems with the San Francisco company's software on Linux have prompted hundreds of user complaints to the Macromedia Web site regarding server crashes and other anomalies." That sky-is-falling attitude of the article, and the claim that hundreds of users have complained on Macromedia’s website, led me to some research of my own.

Java, Where to Start?

I'm a web developer who has design and programming experience. So, VB, ASP, PHP, Coldfusion, Perl, even C and C++ I have in my belt. I also use Dreamweaver and/or do a lot of my HTML/XHTML/JavaScript coding by hand. So, the DOM, DHTML, etc, all good to me and even OOP thinking and design I have when I code. And I even have MySQL and other databases, again, not an issue here. So, my weak point is — Java — I see so many jobs out there with J2EE, Hibernate, Eclipse, Netbeans. Beside the obvious, which is to learn Java the core language, I don't know where else to go from there. There is so much! What should I read? in what order? What software do I require? UML? Swing? I mean, what is the curriculum required for someone to say they are a solid Java developer? Even assuming I have to go through Java itself, what are the good books out the

Major Change to Macromedia Spectra 1.5.1 Locking Scheme Now Available

Macromedia has announced some new modification to Spectra 1.5 that will allow developers to take a new approach to locking the shared scope variables within the ColdFusion source code. Check the URL below to find out more:

The Road to CFUnited

As my train pulled away from New York's Penn station, the butterflies in my stomach began to settle down; I had gotten on the correct train with the correct ticket headed for the correct city. My destination: CFUnited, the world's premier ColdFusion conference. This year, not only did I attend the conference for the first time, I was charged with the task of reviewing my experience. And, what better place is there to start, as they say, then at the beginning.

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