ColdFusion Developer's Journal

Google's GWT framework is just a beautiful piece of software engineering. Providing a wonderfully reliable layer over Javascript makes coding reliable and cross-browser Javascript applications a breeze. We have begun to integrate GWT into OpenBD Leave Comment Related Entries: T... (more)

rPath announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver virtual appliances to both scientists’ desktops and computational clouds. The use of rBuilder in these environments reduces... (more)

We welcome the Railo announcement that they are moving to an open source model. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERYGoogle's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen BlueDragon BOF @ Scotch... (more)

We welcome the Railo announcement that they are moving to an open source model. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERYGoogle's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen BlueDragon BOF @ Scotch... (more)

Last night we presented Open BlueDragon at the Scotch BOF. It was a well turned out event with much discussion. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERYGoogle's GWT continues to amaze and delig... (more)

Last night we presented Open BlueDragon at the Scotch BOF. It was a well turned out event with much discussion. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERYGoogle's GWT continues to amaze and delig... (more)

While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it i... (more)

Red Hat is a  trusted open source provider.  Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, mana... (more)

SOA is mostly associated with technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweight framework th... (more)

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, databases, applicati... (more)

Nearly four years after its initial release, Ruby on Rails is edging ever closer to version 2.1. Rails 0.5 was released June 24 of 2004, and its creator David Heinemeier Hansson hopes that v2.1,  currently in release candidate state, will be out any moment. "We’ve been addi... (more)

This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a con... (more)

Now that we've introduced the Open BlueDragon Plugin API, let us look now at how to develop your own tags, by interfacing to the underlying core engine. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERY... (more)

Now that we've introduced the Open BlueDragon Plugin API, let us look now at how to develop your own tags, by interfacing to the underlying core engine. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedGetting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERY... (more)

We would like to introduce you to a new member of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, Nitai. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Getting access to Amazon's Simple... (more)

We would like to introduce you to a new member of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, Nitai. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launchedjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Getting access to Amazon's Simple... (more)

Despite hisses and boos from the open source side of the house One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is now officially soldered at the hip to Microsoft. Its novel XO laptop is supposed to go to trials in a half-dozen developing countries next month fitted with XP and a student version of Of... (more)

Office will support the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 format when Office 2007 Service Pack 2 arrives in the first half of 2009. Microsoft said users will be able to open, edit and save documents in ODF from directly inside Office application without having to install any other c... (more)

Neocleus announced a suite of trusted virtual solutions for endpoints such as desktops and laptops. The solution, Neocleus Trusted Edge, provides the means for employees, partners and customers to connect to corporate resources from any endpoint regardless of its state of securit... (more)

Open BlueDragon provides a very rich plugin API that lets you quickly and easily add new functionality to the CFML language without having to wade through any of the source code of the core engine. This article goes through this API. Leave Comment Related Entries: The OpenBlueD... (more)