<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/5/cfdj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Viewpoint: Not Every ColdFusion Developer Should Be A Flex Developer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I am going to go ahead and contend that although a good number of ColdFusion developers can grasp and understand Flex very well, there are also a good number of ColdFusion developers who have no business going anywhere near Flex. Why do I say this? I am a big fan of Flex. I use it daily to create, what I think are, some kick-ass applications. It is a powerful tool that really changes the game on the web and the desktop. That being said, it is not a tool that every ColdFusion developer can grasp.]]></description></item><item><title>Improve Your Coding Smarts with ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[If you read CF-related blogs, you've undoubtedly stumbled upon discussions of seemingly arcane subjects like continuations or closures or first-class objects or absence of side effects. It's likely bloggers have tracked down the source - some would say fount - of such concepts and you'll find them waxing eloquent. As they should.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;ColdFusion Killer&quot; BlueDragon Open Source Launch Date Announced</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The wait is coming to an end. We are working feverishly to get the open source version of BlueDragon into the wild on the 3rd of May 2008 at cf.Objective(), when Vince presents his BOF. Vince will illustrate the first public open source version of BlueDragon. This will including the building of it, the deployment and other items of interest. If you want to be among the first to witness this, then get over there.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Language to be Commoditized on Java Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[New Atlanta will be creating and distributing a free open-source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) version of BlueDragon, its ColdFusion-compatible web application server. It will be released under the popular GPL license, mirroring the licensing path chosen by MySQL and Java. BlueDragon has been around for nearly a decade now.]]></description></item><item><title>Task Portfolio Software Created Using ColdFusion 7</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Bolling Technology has announced that the Cordish Company is the first major client for its new online task management software product, Task Portfolio. Invented by owner and Baltimore native Raynard T. Bolling, Task Portfolio is an enterprise level, web-based task management tool that gives managers and employees the ability to efficiently assign and track tasks throughout their organizations. Task Portfolio can be used to manage various tasks in any company or industry.]]></description></item><item><title>Master Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools--including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components--make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps. After this session, even beginner developers will be able to add AJAX interactions to web applications. This session is a must for ambitious, novice and intermediate designers anxious to use AJAX in their applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft&apos;s Office Chief To Retire; Replaced by Macromedia CEO During Adobe&apos;s Acquisition</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft disclosed late Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the head of its Office operation, second only to Windows in bringing in revenue, was retiring and will be replaced by Stephen Elop, 44, Jupiter Networks' short-term COO.  Before Jupiter, Elop was president of worldwide field operations at Adobe by virtue of Adobe's 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, where he was president and CEO. Elop also has experience as a chief information officer. The plan is for Raikes, 49, to hang around until September as a backstop as a member of the senior leadership team for purposes of transition.]]></description></item><item><title>Customers Embrace CommonSpot Version 5.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PaperThin, Inc. announced that four customers have recently gone live on CommonSpot Version 5.0, including: LeSea Broadcasting, Ping Identity, Tulane University, and Tuthill Corporation. In addition, 30 customers are currently implementing the new solution which is being widely embraced for its inherent ease-of-use and improved flexibility.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Moves One Step Closer To AIR 1.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['AIR Beta 3 is an exciting release that takes us one step closer to AIR 1.0,' writes Platform Evangelist Kevin Hoyt in a recent commentary on eight changes from AIR Beta 2. 'Unlike the myriad of changes introduced in the move from AIR Beta 1 to AIR Beta 2,' Hoyt added, 'the changes in AIR Beta 3 are far more subtle.' This stability,e ne noted, indicates the growing maturity of the product.]]></description></item><item><title>T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Its 47-page suit filed in district court in New York the other day says that since IBM's consent decree with the United States government was phased out in 2001 IBM has been systemically squeezing out any competition to its mainframe monopoly and that it has reneged on its undertaking to the government to keep its mainframe operating system available on RAND licensing terms after the decree expired.]]></description></item><item><title>Android: Who Hates Google Over the Phone?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use fast OpenGL libraries and are not afraid to be hardware-specific.]]></description></item><item><title>Lynda.com Releases ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Lynda.com, a self-paced digital media and design training, introduced ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics. ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics demonstrates how to utilize ColdFusion 8 to its full potential, from setting up a project to using ColdFusion Components and sessions in a shopping cart application.]]></description></item><item><title>Hot Banana Now Available on Salesforce.com&apos;s AppExchange</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hot Banana, the Web Content Management Solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace. The two-way integration between Hot Banana's Web content management solution and Salesforce means that both sales and marketing get what they need in the format they want. Marketing maintains full control over Web forms and landing pages, while sales teams obtain lead generation data quickly and in their preferred format.]]></description></item><item><title>CFImage Part 3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion 8 introduces the CFImage tag and dozens of image manipulation functions. We have already looked at reading and writing image files and we have covered the basic yet powerful image manipulation possible through CFImage tag actions alone. Now we know enough to be able to really start exploring the vast feature set of ColdFusion 8 image manipulation. When it comes to something like this your imagination is really the only limit, so it makes it a bit more difficult to come up with simple ways to learn this stuff. I find that task-based learning works well and will let us accomplish real-world goals while touching on many aspects of image manipulation.]]></description></item><item><title>Every Beginner Must Grow Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Do you remember January of 2004? Macromedia had just released ColdFusion 6.1 a few months earlier. CFCs finally worked! Fancy JavaScript techniques were not pulled together under the moniker of AJAX. Rich Internet applications were just a casual mention in a Macromedia whitepaper. There was only one ColdFusion framework in common use and Flex was an unnamed beta behind the Macromedia cloak of secrecy. Macromedia Central was the way to deploy Flex apps to the desktop.]]></description></item><item><title>Working with the Apache Derby Database and ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Early releases of ColdFusion (under Allaire) focused on the Windows market and it was common to include example Access databases. It was common for entry-level developers to take this example to heart and build systems on Access back-ends. One didn't have to install, set up, admin, or most importantly pay for anything. With the beta release of ColdFusion 8, Adobe is providing support for an array of open source databases. Now using PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Apache Derby (formerly IBM Cloudscape) has been made that simpler for CF developers since JDBC drivers for all of them are included. Any of these solutions can be used for the free distribution of databases on either Windows or *nix.]]></description></item><item><title>A Moment Of Silence... &quot;Not&quot; in Memory of ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Our 'pals' at SYS-CON have done it again. Just when I thought they had displayed the utmost in immaturity and unprofessionalism, they manage to make even bigger fools of themselves. And no, I am not going to link to specific posts or pages, and I ask that comments refrain from the same - considering that all they have nowadays are measly ads, I do not want to in any way contribute to their ad revenue. Suffice it to say that the more we see of SYS-CON's petty antics, the more our decision to cut their funding makes sense. Of course, that is what has triggered this recent outbreak of logorrhoea, and judging by their meaningless drivel I can only assume that the few employees who were not wise enough to jump ship are feeling somewhat desperate. And so, perhaps a moment of silence is in order for the fallen SYS-CON. Or ... nah, what the heck, a toast is more appropriate. Cheers!']]></description></item><item><title>A Complete Application with RPC Communications...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[For security reasons (similar to the Java sandbox concept), Flash clients can only access the domains they come from, unless other servers declare, explicitly or implicitly, trust to SWF files downloaded from our domain by a corresponding record in a crossdomain.xml file. But our portfolio SWF wasn't loaded from finance.yahoo.com, and we aren't allowed to install crossdomain.xml on the Yahoo! servers. We'll use another technique called Flex proxy.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Adobe &quot;Officially&quot; Killing ColdFusion?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As I'm now officially on the Flex Builder team, I wanted to take a moment to make sure everybody knows where to go for ColdFusion help. Thanks to all of you who had kind words and good wishes for me at MAX last week. While I'm focused now on making Flex Builder even better, I'll still remain involved in the ColdFusion world. My last 'official' ColdFusion duties will be to present on our European ColdFusion 8 launch tour later this month. I'll post some additional information on those events shortly.]]></description></item><item><title>My name is Dave Livingston and I killed BlogFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Dave Livingston and I killed BlogFusion. Many of the folks in the ColdFusion community consider it dead and have moved off to other open source CF blogging applications. Well, it's not gone. BlogFusion is actually alive and well, we just haven't done a very good job of letting the rest of the world know that or how it's morphed.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe ColdFusion Is As Dead As a Door Nail</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Joshua Cyr at Macromedia blogs writes: 'I got some spam from sys-con again today. I have tried for months now to get off their damn lists. At any rate the subject caught my eye. 'ColdFusion 8 is Here'. Thats odd... so I decide to read the email. Turns out their mail server probably just sent a big batch of old email since the mail date is October 9th, but the date in the actual email content is August 8th. Gave me a chuckle for so many reasons. :-) As for the acutal content... Most of the 'newsletter' is just ads and interviews that are actually advertisments.']]></description></item><item><title>Adobe ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Exciting news for organizations and developers using ColdFusion: Adobe released ColdFusion 8 on July 30. This release is a major milestone for the product: it is the first full-version ColdFusion release by Adobe since the acquisition of Macromedia. With the release of CF 8, Adobe has shown their commitment to the product and their commitment to enabling ColdFusion developers to build better Web-enabled applications faster than with any other technology.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe&apos;s Decision Upsets ColdFusion Community</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['The biggest problem here is that it looks bad for ColdFusion. The first print magazine dedicated to it has left the building,' says Michael Dinowitz in his blog about the Adobe decision to kill CFDJ. 'The very fact that they're moving the magazine from ColdFusion, an Adobe product, to Silverlight, a Microsoft product, can and will be used against ColdFusion.' Other bloggers directed their disappointment toward SYS-CON, the publisher of the magazine, rather than Adobe, which made the decision to kill the title.]]></description></item><item><title>What Kind of ColdFusion Developer Are You?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My editorial last month was a high-level overview of all the new features in ColdFusion 8. Many of these features were generally divided into one of two categories: features that address developer productivity and those that focus on integrating with other products and technologies.]]></description></item><item><title>CFImage Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion 8 has a load of awesome image manipulation functionality. So much so, in fact, that it will take several articles to discuss it in any sort of decent way. In Part 1 of this article (CFDJ, Vol. 9, issue 5), we spent the entire post just exploring all the ways in which ColdFusion 8 can read in and write out/save images.]]></description></item><item><title>Test Driving ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Of course, since this is ColdFusion I expected nothing less than this, i.e., powerful AJAX functionality combined with the simplicity of a tag-based language, and that's exactly what the Auto-Suggest AJAX component delivers. The code in Listing 1 is a simple example in which the auto-suggest attribute of the  tag has been populated with hard-coded values. If you're running ColdFusion 8 yourself and want to get a firsthand look at this feature, you should be able to copy and paste the code from Listing 1 and save it as a new ColdFusion file. Figure 1 shows the suggested search terms displayed by the auto-suggest attribute as text is entered into the control.]]></description></item><item><title>Do We Really Need These Newfangled ColdFusion Features?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago in the #coldfusion channel on the Dalnet IRC network we had a rather spirited discussion about some of the new features in ColdFusion 8. The discussion focused on  and its related tags, and whether ColdFusion developers actually needed such functionality as part of the product we have all come to know and love.]]></description></item><item><title>Did You Get the Web 2.0 Memo?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The 'upgrade' from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful, and interesting for consumers and the business community. The evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 has been about improvements in the Web 'experience' - from that of simply browsing static content and graphic images that display upon request, to an all-new highly interactive, programmable, and much more useful Web.]]></description></item><item><title>FuseTalk Announces New Release, v3.1 Jives with ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[FuseTalk, created in 1999 by developers Jason Clark and Dominic Plouffe, has released the latest version of its flagship  Internet forum and weblogging software for corporate, government and educational organizations. Version 3.1 performs extremely well on ColdFusion 8, according to the company.]]></description></item><item><title>CFDynamics Is Hosting Jumpstart&apos;s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their hosting of Jumpstart?s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder that will allow participants to find reading events being held in their communities on the record-breaking day, September 20.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON to Relaunch CFDJ as Silverlight Developer&apos;s Journal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SYS-CON Media announced today its plans to relaunch CFDJ - ColdFusion Developer's Journal as Silverlight Developer's Journal. The premier issue of SLDJ will be debuted at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara California.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON to Offer Free Subscriptions to ColdFusion Developer&apos;s Journal Readers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CFDJ was launched 10 years ago as a custom developer magazine with the direct support of Allaire Corporation. This support continued after the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia. After ColdFusion became part of the Adobe product line Adobe recently decided to discontinue its support of the magazine. SYS-CON will offer free one year digital subscription to all CFDJ readers to a magazine of their choice, either Flex Developer's Journal or Silverlight Developer's Journal.]]></description></item><item><title>Seven New Clients Select Hot Banana&apos;s SEO-Friendly Web CMS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/419690.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/419690.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/419690_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Recognizing that a Web site's content and core design play a critical role in search engine optimization, seven companies recently chose to power their Web sites with Hot Banana (www.hotbanana.com), the SEO-friendly Web content management solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Frameworks: ColdBox 2.0.3 Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/411536.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/411536.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/411536_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This release is the first one to include contributed content from Rob Gonda, Tom de Manincor, Brian LeGros, Sana Ullah and Aaron Roberson. The ColdBox Team and contributors are growing. So enjoy this release. The ColdBox website is also being renovated and will be launched soon. Development is now strong for version 2.1.0 and we have some extraordinary features coming your way. So please show your support and God Bless.]]></description></item><item><title>Hot Banana Expands Channel Partner Program</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/410201.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/410201.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/410201_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hot Banana, the Web content management solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, has added five new channel partners to its reseller program. In signing with Hot Banana, all cited the need for a leading-edge Web content management system that is feature-rich, flexible and marketing-friendly.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Feature &amp;mdash; Coding with XML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386325.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386325.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386325_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As a ColdFusion developer, hopefully by now you have heard at least a little about XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Wikipedia defines XML as a 'general-purpose markup language' designed to 'facilitate the sharing of data' and also designed to be 'relatively human-legible.']]></description></item><item><title>CFImage Functionality is Just Awesome!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397946.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397946.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397946_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Finally, ColdFusion 8 has incorporated image manipulation directly into the ColdFusion tag and scripting language. No more are we, as developers, chained to third-party products. These products, while excellent in quality, just mean adding one more level of complexity to any application that requires server-side image manipulation. Now, with CFImage and an abundance of image-related functions, ColdFusion has done to image manipulation what it has done to almost every other aspect of Web applications development - it has made it simple.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON Initiates ColdFusion 8 Coverage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408981.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408981.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408981_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion Developer Journal's Simon Horwith expressed intense enthusiasm for ColdFusion 8 in a recent interview, but this interview was hardly the only story published by SYS-CON Media recently in the runup to one of the major Adobe announcements in recent memory. Here's the recap...]]></description></item><item><title>It&apos;s Here! Adobe Ships ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408613.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408613.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408613_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor lets developers swiftly identify bottlenecks and tune the server for better performance. 'The server monitoring capabilities in ColdFusion 8 are outstanding, offering granular-level access to identify slow requests and terminate runaway processes,' said Nick Walters, programming manager, Lightyear Network Solutions. 'We can now receive actual detail as to which requests are taking the longest and which objects within a page are performing poorly. Server monitoring with ColdFusion 8 is leaps ahead of third-party applications on the market.']]></description></item><item><title>New Adobe ColdFusion 8 Tools &quot;Invaluable&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408632.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408632.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/408632_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['As someone who often has to troubleshoot, improve, and analyze client applications and server performance, I've also found the new debugging and server monitoring tools to be invaluable.  I can't imagine going back to not having them available and making use of them daily.']]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON.TV Features ColdFusion 8 Live From Times Square</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/401922.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/401922.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/401922_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With the release of Adobe's ColdFusion 8 -and today's general availability release- SYS-CON.TV's Roger Strukhoff sat down with ColdFusion Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith for an exclusive interview from SYS-CON's TV studios overlooking Times Square in New York. Simon had had the opportunity to work with the CF8 public beta, and his enthusiasm could not have been more emphatic. 'It's fantastic,' he said in the interview, 'the number of features is ridiculous, crazy, great. And it's also very stable.']]></description></item><item><title>CFDJ Feature &amp;mdash; It Is Possible!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397935.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397935.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397935_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Now that Scorpio is here (at least in beta), it is time to start figuring out all the new tricks of the trade, right? However, as most of your clients will not be switching immediately, you will still have to be doing ColdFusion 7 work for some time.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion 8 Beta Is Released by Adobe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397966.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397966.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397966_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The wait is over and the latest version of ColdFusion has just been released in beta. Code named 'Scorpio' (the eighth sign of the Zodiac) during the development stages, the new release is officially named ColdFusion 8 and has just recently been made available for free trial beta accounts through select ColdFusion Web hosting providers.]]></description></item><item><title>CFDJ Editorial &amp;mdash; Scorpio Becomes Beta</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397934.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397934.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/397934_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Roman astrology turned into the Greek alphabet recently, with the announcement that the previously named 'Scorpio' has been released as the ColdFusion 8 Beta. Initial reaction from the most sophisticated members of the CF community was positive.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion AJAX Tutorial 6: Editable Data Grids</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/394634.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/394634.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/394634_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Like the previous incarnations of, the new AJAX enabled HTML grid allows data to be updated right within the grid. When it is used in edit mode, column values may be edited as needed, and rows may be deleted. Unfortunately, the current implementation of the HTML does not support inserting new rows. This is a pretty serious limitation, and one that we'll hopefully address in the future - for now you'll need to use another form to add new rows.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Feature &amp;mdash; Wait-Time Analysis Method</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386362.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386362.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386362_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Until recently, tuning IT application performance has been largely a guessing game. This is both surprising and unacceptable considering the relentless focus IT organizations put on cost-efficiency and productivity.  The traditional approaches to database and application tuning that involve collecting large volumes of statistics and making trial-and-error changes are still in widespread use. Today, most server management and monitoring tools deliver 'server-oriented' statistics that don't translate to concrete end-user benefits.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe ColdFusion 8 Tips</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386348.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386348.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386348_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Everyone is excited about ColdFusion 8; the blogs have been buzzing, feedback has been superb, lots of attendees expressed relief and gratitude at seeing such a compelling ColdFusion built in this new Adobe era - no complaints, no negative feedback, just real enthusiasm and excitement. The only frequently heard complaint was from users who want it now!]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Helps &quot;finalsite&quot; Power Hundreds Of Educational Sites</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388717.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388717.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388717_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Since 1998, finalsite has been bringing cutting-edge web design and web software to leading independent schools and organizations around the world. finalsite currently serves nearly 200 independent schools and a total of nearly 500 schools and educational organizations of all types. finalsite offers portals and modules as add-ons to the CMS, including modules for admissions, alumni, board, trustee & friends, faculty & Staff, parents, students, major donor, alerts, athletic, blogs, calendar, commerce, forms, intranet, multimedia, news, and registration. finalsite runs on ColdFusion MX7, and also utilizes Flash.]]></description></item><item><title>Get Your Fresh Adobe AIR</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388333.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388333.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/388333_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And you can get it right now on Labs.]]></description></item><item><title>Baking Object-Oriented Pizza with ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386290.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386290.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/386290_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Over the past few years it's gotten a lot harder to write ColdFusion code. That's not to say that CFML has changed significantly. You can still write code today that's much the same as what you wrote five years ago or longer. However, with the introduction of CFCs in CFMX, ColdFusion started to feel like a real programming language for the first time. CFCs, as you probably know, let us encapsulate data and functionality. With this new tool in the toolbox of CF developers, many slowly started applying advanced programming concepts to their development. This caught on and things have spiraled.]]></description></item></channel></rss>