Code-named Blackstone, Macromedia's 7.0 release of ColdFusion is said to contain a host of new features. Due in early 2005, Macromedia's latest ColdFusion is designed with ease of use in mind for both developers and servers.

The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, considered by many to have one of the best MBA programs anywhere, has been raising the interest of IT professionals for ten years.

Macromedia has announced the release of Macromedia FlashPaper 2, a simple way to convert printable files into universally sharable electronic documents. FlashPaper 2 enables any application to create documents that can be instantly viewed within any web browser.

Macromedia has released the Macromedia Web Publishing System, which provides everything an organization needs to affordably build and manage Web and intranet sites.

Macromedia has announced a major upgrade to Macromedia Contribute, redefining Web publishing by enabling nontechnical users to update pages on Web sites or intranets as easily as they would edit a Microsoft Word document.

If you missed this year's CFUN conference (June 26-27), you missed a lot. In addition to the great time spent meeting and talking with other ColdFusion programmers, Ben Forta gave a keynote demo of the next version of ColdFusion, code-named 'Blackstone'.

So far, all the information about Blackstone, the next major version of ColdFusion, has been third-hand, based on what bloggers have been saying after seeing Ben Forta preview the product. Now you can read information straight from the horse's mouth, courtesy of 'The Blackstone Tour Re

A new ColdFusion editor, based on Eclipse, is debuting this weekend in beta form. He3 'provides a number of unique tools specifically targeted to CFML development,' says newly-formed RichPalette Inc., whose first tool this is. Macromedia's Sean Corfield tells more about it.

This week, for his invention of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee received $1.2 million from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The amount represents the first ever Millennium Technology Prize, which recognizes technological innovations of lasting benefit to society. 'Tim Berners-Lee'

Do you have a question for the CFDJ panel at CFUN-04? You don't have to attend CFUN to summit a question, though you will have to be there to hear the answers!

Macromedia Flex is a new presentation server and application framework that enables enterprise development teams to put more effective interfaces on critical business applications. The Flex server offers a standards-based, declarative programming methodology for delivering rich user ex

Macromedia reported its quarterly earnings yesterday, with net revenues of $102 million, a 22 percent increase compared to the $83.6 million reported for the same period last year. Net revenues for fiscal year 2004 were $369.8 million, a 10 percent increase compared to the $336.9 milli

The recently released WebCharts3D version 5.0 from Greenpoint adds powerful new features including a versatile chart designer with integrated image server, DTD and XSD schema production, API for Swing designer components, multi-view charts, animated Flash generation, new shading and gr

Tim Berners-Lee, who when last we looked was being knighted by the Queen, has been given the very first Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation for creating the World Wide Web and not making any money off of it or patenting it. To kinda make it up to him

In what may or may not be just a high-tech April Fool, Google says it's launching a free e-mail service, leveraging Google search technology to automatically organize and find messages, and coming with a free gigabyte of storage.

80,000 IP addresses host sites using ColdFusion, according to this month's Web Server Survey from UK company Netcraft.

Remember the Allaire brothers? As In Jeremy and 'J.J' - co-founders of Allaire Corporation, which merged into to Macromedia, Inc. back in 2001? Despite Jeremy's continued prominence, first with Allaire and more recently with the Boston VC firm Catalyst Partners, his brother was nowhere

PaperThin, Inc., a midmarket content management system vendor, has announced that several nonprofit organizations and associations have recently selected CommonSpot Content Server to manage their Internet, intranet, and extranet sites.

From the first day the Internet was conceived, its primary goal was to allow people to access information stored on remote computers. Over the last couple of years, the technology of Web services has evolved not only to enhance accessing this information, but to share it as well.

Macromedia has announced Macromedia Director MX 2004, the latest version of the industry-standard multimedia authoring tool. Macromedia Director has been at the forefront of multimedia development for more than a decade, and this latest version adds support for JavaScript, Flash MX 200

Welcome to another installment of Extending ColdFusion. In this edition, we are going to look at one of the ways you can add localization to your Web site. What do we mean by localization? Localization or L10N (L10N is an abbreviation for the 10 letters between the 'L' and 'N' in local

The proximity principle holds that the best place to deal with something is as close to that something as possible. Applied to the waste industry, it yields policies that promote the management of waste as close to its point of production as possible. The idea is that transporting wast

'Now that millions of lines of code to Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 are readily available to anyone with a modem,' writes James Turner, 'Get ready for your twice-daily mandatory security patches, folks.'

This article focuses on practical ideas and habits that, when consistently applied, will allow you to develop and create better ColdFusion applications - regardless of which CF version you use, the hardware you run on, or the methodology you employ - as well as make your development ea

(May 28, 2002) - e-Zone Media Inc. has introduced FuseTalk E-mail List Synch Module, a new tool to synchronize FuseTalk discussion forums with e-mailing lists to create a powerful integrated way of communication.

(April 29, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. today announced Macromedia ColdFusion MX, the rapid server scripting environment for creating rich Internet applications. Macromedia ColdFusion MX, previously code-named 'Neo,' brings the proven ease of use and productivity of ColdFusion to the highl

(November 11, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc.'s new product promises to make Web site updates as easy as word processing. Macromedia Contribute is a desktop application that enables anyone to easily update, add, and publish Web content to existing Web sites without requiring technical skills

When they hear that I run a class entitled 'Java for ColdFusion Programmers,' many developers ask me: 'Why the class in Java? Is ColdFusion dying?' It's a fair question. After all, technology in general and languages in particular have a lifespan. It's also true that ColdFusion is bei

(September 9, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. brings the ease and productivity of ColdFusion to the highly scalable, standards-based Java technology architecture with its new Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers. Versions of Macromedia ColdFusion MX, the rapid server scriptin

(August 2, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. has just introduced Pet Market, a sample application built using the entire Macromedia MX product family. Pet Market, a fictitious online pet retailer, illustrates both the benefits of rich Internet applications and the ability to deliver these exper

(December 23, 2002) – Rumors have been circulating in San Francisco since late yesterday that Microsoft Corp may be planning to buy Macromedia, Inc. The San Francisco-based Macromedia, Inc., specializes in software that aids in the design, development, delivery, and display of Web si

When I started I was using Macromedia's Director. It was the most productive and definitely the most enjoyable stage of my career - we had a great tool to build great products. Sadly the CD-ROM market bombed as the novelty wore off, and as business began eyeing the Web with dollar sign

(December 23, 2002) - Rumors have been circulating in San Francisco since late yesterday that Microsoft Corp may be planning to buy Macromedia, Inc. The San Francisco-based Macromedia, Inc., specializes in software that aids in the design, development, delivery, and display of Web si

(April 16, 2003) - How can Web hosting service provider costs be cut by thousands of dollars? Edge Web Hosting has deployed the Sockeye Networks GlobalRoute service to reduce the cost of upstream transit bandwidth while boosting Internet performance for its customers.

(December 22, 2003) - Standpipe Studios, L.L.C. has upgraded Vertabase Pro, its Web-based project management application, to Version 3.5.

(November 21, 2003) - Macromedia has announced the availability of an update for Macromedia‚ Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 that includes performance and stability improvements as well as expanded documentation.

(November 21, 2003) - At the 2003 MAX conference, Macromedia announced that it has formally applied for membership in Ecma International, an industry association dedicated to the standardization of information and communication technology, which developed and maintains the key standard

(November 21, 2003) - At the MAX conference in Salt Lake City, Macromedia unveiled Macromedia Flex, a presentation server and application framework that enables enterprise developers to deliver rich Internet applications using existing tools, design patterns, and infrastructure.

Going to Macromedia MAX this year? Or can't make it? Tell us what you think about MAX and other training classes at the survey. It only takes two minutes to complete and the results to date are published on the site. Additionally, anyone who completes the survey will be entered to wi

(October 29, 2003) -Macromedia has formed a new group to provide government-specific support and solutions based on its portfolio of software applications.