ColdFusion News Desk

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in ColdFusion v8.0.1 and earlier versions, and JRun 4.0. Adobe has now patched them with a Security Update released on August 17, 2009. Here are the details, direct from Adobe's own Security Bulletin: "Summary Critical vulnerabilities ... (more)

Ulitzer is planning to launch ColdFusion Developer's Journal 2.0 (http://coldfusion.ulitzer.com/). ColdFusion Developer's Journal was first launched 12 years ago. Ulitzer brings more than 7,000 original CFDJ articles and ColdFusion authors from the archives to ColdFusion Develope... (more)

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion web host, has renewed an agreement with SmarterTools that will allow them to pass on immediate value to their customers. When a customers signs up for a dedicated hosting account they will now receive $750 worth of features including SmarterMail, SmarterSt... (more)

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... (more)

Bolling Technology 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 tha... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 e... (more)

"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 chang... (more)

Lyris, Inc. announced the availability of Hot Banana Version 5.7, the latest update to its award-winning Web content management solution and core application within the company's Lyris HQ integrated marketing platform. Version 5.7 of the Hot Banana application provides seamless in... (more)

Lyris, Inc. announced that its Hot Banana Web content management solution (CMS) was ranked highest in overall ease of use by The 2007 Gilbane Group Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience. The survey results ranked Hot Banana highest in overall ease of use, interact... (more)

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... (more)

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 wha... (more)

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... (more)

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. “We are ple... (more)

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. H... (more)

“Our new partners are all experiencing healthy growth and with that, the need for a top-notch system to satisfy the demands of their expanding customer bases,” said Krista LaRiviere, General Manager, Hot Banana. “Hot Banana gives them the features and the flexib... (more)

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. View the inter... (more)

Adobe ColdFusion 8 is now moved past its final beta and is fully available. ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor lets developers swiftly identify bottlenecks and tune the server for better performance, according to Adobe. "The server monitoring capabilities in ColdFusion 8 are outstanding... (more)

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. S... (more)

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, announces a new white paper from The Gilbane Group that explains how marketers benefit from utilizing a Web CMS-driven eMarketing platform to deliver tangible ROI on marketing investm... (more)