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BEST BOOK - Winner: ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit. BY BEN FORTA, NATE WEISS, LEON CHALNICK, ANGELA C. BURAGLIA (MACROMEDIA PRESS)Mar. 13, 2006 04:00 PM EST Reads: 11,960
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| BEST BOOK - Winner: ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit. BY BEN FORTA, NATE WEISS, LEON CHALNICK, ANGELA C. BURAGLIA (MACROMEDIA PRESS) |
'Using Dell servers allows us to offer our customers a high quality, well-known brand of servers,' said Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics. 'These servers have been proven to be extremely reliable, easy to support, all with the backing of the well-known bra... Mar. 7, 2006 09:00 PM EST Reads: 10,132 Replies: 1 |
Create, acquire, convert, and retain are four words key to the Hot Banana content management system philosophy. In an exclusive interivew, company CEO Krista Lariviere talks about the company's history and how it is serving its customers today. Mar. 1, 2006 11:15 AM EST Reads: 17,316 Replies: 1 |
 Hot Banana Software announced a new technology solution - Hot Banana For Agencies - targeted exclusively at online, eMarketing and interactive agencies, as well as traditional marketing and advertising agencies. Hot Banana For Agencies is designed to help all kinds of agencies manage ...Feb. 28, 2006 03:15 PM EST Reads: 11,905 Replies: 1 |
 Is JavaScript the Essence of AJAX? Some people will claim that they can provide you with AJAX functionality without writing a single line of JavaScript; I disagree.Jan. 23, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 10,729 |
Intergral managing director David Tattersall says, 'Our customers typically manage what we call 'unstructured information,' which usually accounts for approximately 80% of all the content in a typical organization. Unstructured simply means that it lives in documents rather than being ... Jan. 20, 2006 03:00 PM EST Reads: 18,461 Replies: 1 |
 Hot Banana Software announced that momentum is building for the search engine friendly, Multilingual functionality of its Hot Banana Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite which has resulted in the signing of three International Channel Partner agreements. The latest Hot Banana ...Jan. 3, 2006 06:00 PM EST Reads: 12,882 Replies: 1 |
Savvy Software initially addressed the needs of clients who wanted the ability to update their own web sites without having to use HTML, FTP or any other technologies used in web development, the company says. It offered its first content management system in 2001, and today uses its C... Dec. 30, 2005 09:00 PM EST Reads: 8,829 Replies: 2 |
With hosting customers across the globe, CFDynamics says, 'we know the standards that developers have come to expect in a host. We have come to be known as a leader for providing reliable and powerful hosting.' CFDynamics also has developed a resellers program 'to benefit anyone with m... Dec. 16, 2005 05:15 PM EST Reads: 9,541 Replies: 5 |
Horrified by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and now by Hurricane Rita, two ColdFusion companies - Centrasoft.com and CFDynamics.com - have stepped up to the plate with donations to the Red Cross relief fund for Hurricane Katrina victims. Oct. 3, 2005 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,004 |
The CFMX Updates page on Macromedia.com has just been modified to include the latest revision of ColdFusion MX, namely 7.01. Sep. 28, 2005 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,090 Replies: 1 |
activePDF hosts an introductory webinar on Tuesdays as part of its activePDF University (APU), then covers more advanced topics on Thursday. activePDF now has a range of products that complement its inaugural activePDF Server. Aug. 27, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,087 Replies: 1 |
 The Minnesota State Colleges and University System has licensed Savvy Unlimited for use by its' affiliated institutions. There is currently one campus, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, with a completed installation of Savvy in place. Two others, South Central Technical College and...Aug. 27, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,180 Replies: 1 |
Although ColdFusion 7.0 is not affected, a vulnerability which if exploited would allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware, has been discovered in the ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater. Macromedia has issued what is calls 'a workaround addressing the probl... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,031 |
Will be key component in the creation of applications that send messages straight to users. Apr. 10, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,265 |
'We've had a tremendous response,' said ColdFusion product manager Dave Gruber, speaking exclusively to SYS-CON.TV (http://www.sys-con.tv) just 9 days after the release of ColdFusion MX 7. 'I couldn't ask for a better nine days.' Mar. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,090 Replies: 2 |
InterAKT Online has announced that InterAKT extensions for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 will be integrated in the new Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7, and will help to further power ColdFusion application development. Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,466 |
Macromedia Announces ColdFusion MX 7, The Most Significant Release In Ten Years - Live on SYS-CON.TV ColdFusion MX 7 opens the door to the mobile Internet by providing an easy, cost-effective, and powerful way to securely extend applications to mobile phone users through SMS text messaging. Applications can also be created for access through instant messaging clients. These new deploy... Feb. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,699 Replies: 5 |
New Atlanta Communications develops software products and technology and provides support services needed to deploy and administer dynamic Internet web sites and web-enabled applications. BlueDragon 6.1 has recently been released and CFDynamics is a proud BlueDragon VIP Hosting Partner... Jan. 28, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,675 |
HostMySite.com recently received the Delaware State Chamber Small Business Alliance ?2004 Award of Excellence?. The award was given during the Superstars in Business Award Luncheon on November 10, 2004 at the Hotel du Pont. Jan. 26, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 7,600 |
'We aim to be the premier dedicated server provider to mid-sized and small enterprises,' says Ho Lee, general manager of DedicatedCentral. 'Our combination of aggressive hardware and bandwidth pricing, along with our focus on security-related software puts DedicatedCentral a step ahead... Jan. 25, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,880 Replies: 1 |
Online training programs, developed and deployed with Macromedia Breeze and Flash, are enjoying very favorable reviews, and adoption rates, by users working with Macromedia Breeze Government Edition. The Naval Air Systems Command has been using the products since May 2004. Jan. 5, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,755 Replies: 1 |
The latest, yet to be released, version of Macromedia's ColdFusion - known as Blackstone - can be used right now as part of a Web hosting solution from CFDynamics and Macromedia. The hosting company is offering free hosting under a partnership with Macromedia designed to introduce Blac... Dec. 21, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,367 Replies: 1 |
What is being called the first end-to-end ColdFusion development tool has been released. Known as 'Plum,' its developers say Web sites can be created in a matter of minutes. The application is available at no charge. Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 703 |
OmniPilot's Lasso Professional Server (LP8) is reportedly able to create applications with far less code than ColdFusion, and other programming languages. The company said it wants LP8 to have 'build once, deploy anywhere' functionality. Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 365 |
At its annual developer conference, Macromedia provided a glimpse of new features that are under consideration in new releases of ColdFusion and Macromedia's Flash Player. The conference itinerary could be viewed using mobile phones. Nov. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,908 Replies: 3 |
Hoping that it has whetted the appetite of applications developers with Flex, Macromedia announced the availability of Flex Builder. The IDE is being given away to customers who download a trial version of Flex or buy a full version. Sep. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,106 Replies: 1 |
Updates to ColdFusion MX 6.1 are now available and Macromedia is urging users to install the upgrader. Anyone expecting only minor bug-fixes from the 6.1 Updater will be pleasantly surprised by this comprehensive offering - much more than was at first speculated. Sep. 1, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,803 |
In a delicious irony the Web site of Windows Network & .NET Magazine is powered by ColdFusion, Ben Forta revealed today in his blog. 'There are lots of static pages on this site, so you may have to dig around to find the .cfm links, but they are indeed there,' he adds. Aug. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,054 |
The list of nearly 50 applications and games - some from Microsoft, others from third-party vendors - that won't work properly with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) without some tweaking unfortunately includes Macromedia's ColdFusion MX Server Edition. Aug. 25, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,272 |
The ColdFusion product team reveals that 'Blackstone' - the next-generation version of CF - will among other things provide a new, integrated business reporting capability; the ability to print from the browser without chopping off margins or breaking up content; and new, tag-driven fo... Aug. 12, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,215 |
Macromedia's next upgrade to ColdFusion Web application server, code-named Blackstone, will include an array of tools allowing for the creation of interactive forms using Macromedia Flash, or the XML offshoot being offered by XForms. Aug. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,989 |
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. Aug. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,475 |
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. Jul. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,189 |
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. Jun. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,044 Replies: 3 |
Many developers are aware of Ben Forta's excellent work logging all the world's major sites currently using CF. But have you ever wondered how many of those sites belong to other software companies? Read on and all will be revealed... Jun. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,216 |
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! Jun. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,156 |
The simplicity, flexibility and processing power of Macromedia's ColdFusion MX technology, supplied Macromedia solutions distributor Dax Data, made it the ideal choice for the development of a large call center application at Benefit Recovery Services (BRS), Johannesburg, South Africa. May. 25, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,591 |
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... May. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,454 |
80,000 IP addresses host sites using ColdFusion, according to this month's Web Server Survey from UK company Netcraft. Mar. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,590 Replies: 1 |
