http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/current en http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe- The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe-#comments air flex http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/3872 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 606 0 BenForta http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 BenForta 3872 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ. Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great Google-centric context can be found on the Google Webmaster Central http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl#comments Adobe flash flex Google search swf http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/3852 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 670 0 BenForta http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 BenForta 3852 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what this implies.Web spiders will now be able to playback SWF(s) like users and cull out the data to add to their index. This annoucement has two huge impacts: http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable#comments Adobe Google search swf web spiders Yahoo http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/3850 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 585 0 sandbox http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 sandbox 3850 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted The MAX USA 2008 site is now up, and the schedule is now online too complete with the session list. Register now! Oh, and the site background is interactive, and apparently there are http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted#comments AdobeMAX08 Appearances MAX http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/3780 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 298 0 BenForta http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 BenForta 3780 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/hey-wmi-where-can-i-print Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI for short, is a very powerful and often under used technology. I am simply fascinated by how much you can accomplish using WMI. It is mostly intended for computer management tasks but it can be used for much more. Some examples include getting all kinds of computer information, managing system services and application. This article will cover a possible... http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/hey-wmi-where-can-i-print#comments .net coldfusion wmi http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/2011 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:13 -0400 1062 0 boyan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246156.jpg Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:13 -0400 boyan 2011 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/freeing-dragon-interview-vince DZone sits down with Vince Bonfanti, President and co-founder of New Atlanta Communications, LLC. New Atlanta creates server-based software products built using Java/J2EE and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/freeing-dragon-interview-vince#comments coldfusion http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1979 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:56:03 -0400 1381 1 dan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-5.jpg Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:56:03 -0400 dan 1979 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/flex-powered-adobe-photoshop-e Today, Adobe Systems released the beta version of Photoshop Express. Photoshop Express is a web based version of the popular Flagship Image Editing product and contains a plethora of common features in an easy to use Web Based Interface.Users can store 2 GB of images on Adobe servers for free and also show their images in a personalized gallery, akin to Flickr. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/flex-powered-adobe-photoshop-e#comments Adobe adobe photoshop flex RIA http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1999 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:31:04 -0400 1154 2 dan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-5.jpg Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:31:04 -0400 dan 1999 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/cfunited-interview-peter-bell In this month's installment of my CFUnited interview series, I speak to prominent ColdFusion blogger, author and presenter and good friend, Peter Bell. Peter is well known for his innovative and often controversial ideas about code generation and design patterns. Peter also runs his own business, SystemsForge, based in New York City. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/cfunited-interview-peter-bell#comments coldfusion http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1944 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:19:11 -0400 342 0 remotesynth http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-203197.jpg Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:19:11 -0400 remotesynth 1944 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/model-glue-tips-and-tricks Turn off automatic reloading of your application This will greatly reduce the time the application needs to process all request. This is the way I develop Model-Glue applications. In your Model-Glue configuration (the "modelGlueConfiguration" bean in ColdSpring.xml), look for the "reload" property and set it to false: <property... http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/model-glue-tips-and-tricks#comments coldfusion Model-Glue http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1835 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:26:22 -0400 527 0 boyan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246156.jpg Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:26:22 -0400 boyan 1835 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/querying-file-system-coldfusio While looking for a solution of a different problem, I realized that SQL Server has a feature called extended stored procedures. Extended stored procedures, at least in SQL Server 2000, have to be written in C++ and compiled to a DLL. A good example of such a procedure is my previous article on Using Regular Expression in SQL Server. I am not going to get into how to write extended stored... http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/querying-file-system-coldfusio#comments coldfusion SQL Server http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1785 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:16 -0400 1467 0 boyan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246156.jpg Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:16 -0400 boyan 1785 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/closing-404-gap-dynamic-page-g ColdFusion's new onMissingTemplate() function is a great addition to our toolbox, and mind blowingly useful for Dynamic Page Generation, but (as Ben Nadel notes) the problem of requiring a ColdFusion template to be requested in order to invoke the functionality has yet to be addressed. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/closing-404-gap-dynamic-page-g#comments 404 coldfusion ColdFusion 8 Dynamic Page Generation FAQU how-to IIS onMissingTemplate http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1570 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:12:29 -0400 1902 4 atuttle http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-273082.jpg Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:12:29 -0400 atuttle 1570 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/meet-man-who-set-twitter DZone sits down with Aaron West, the man who set Twitter free of the browser. Aaron is a long time ColdFusion, Flash and Flex developer who created twitterAIR, the first Twitter/RIA integration based on the Adobe Integrated Runtime platform http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/meet-man-who-set-twitter#comments actionscript air coldfusion flash flex RIA http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1554 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0500 2054 0 dan http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-5.jpg Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0500 dan 1554 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/multi-selects-related-cfajaxpr About a year ago I wrote a post about how to do Multi-selects Related with AjaxCFC. Recently someone was saying they found it useful, and I mentioned that if I were doing it today I would likely just use ColdFusion 8's new <cfajaxproxy> tag. Therefore I have decided to show how the identical example could be done in ColdFusion 8. In the end, I think it is easier to understand and... http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/multi-selects-related-cfajaxpr#comments ajax coldfusion ColdFusion 8 http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1519 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:28:17 -0500 569 0 remotesynth http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-203197.jpg Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:28:17 -0500 remotesynth 1519 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/coldfusion-8s-image-functions- One of the new features in ColdFusion 8 is the ability to manipulate images using ColdFusion tags and functions. In addition to being to do generic image manipulations (like rotating, resizing, and cropping), you can also add text to an image using the ImageDrawText function, like in this example: http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/coldfusion-8s-image-functions-#comments coldfusion ColdFusion 8 image manipulation jQuery http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1416 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:28:41 -0500 1168 2 bcswartz http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/themes/dzone/avatars/default_48.gif Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:28:41 -0500 bcswartz 1416 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/top-features-coldfusion-8-site My latest article has just been posted on Sitepoint. It covers my personal favorite new features in ColdFusion 8 (at least, those at the moment as this tends to change throughout the lifetime of a release). Although many readers may be familiar with these features, if you haven't used ColdFusion 8 much yet, I do go into some brief examples of things like the Ajax integration and Multi-threading. http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/top-features-coldfusion-8-site#comments coldfusion http://coldfusion.dzone.com/crss/node/1229 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:23:57 -0500 408 0 remotesynth http://coldfusion.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-203197.jpg Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:23:57 -0500 remotesynth 1229 at http://coldfusion.dzone.com