ColdFusion News Desk

DedicatedCentral today announced its launch, providing the premium-value dedicated server market with highly competitive pricing, deliver unexpected levels of high-touch customer support, and assure core "zero-tolerance" Internet security.   "We aim to be the premier dedicated se... (more)

The Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) adoption and integration of Macromedia Breeze Government Edition, for use in training programs, has been enthusiastically taken up by users, and has come to be highly regarded by NAVAIR. Macromedia Breeze and Flash have been used to develo... (more)

In order to introduce the capabilities of Macromedia's upcoming "Blackstone" ColdFusion release, CFDynamics announced that it is offering free hosting using Macromedia's latest ColdFusion version. Typically, under CFDynamics' Shared Hosting program, customers pay between $19.95, ... (more)

The father and son team, Adam and David Churvis, has released what is being called the first end-to-end ColdFusion development tool. Christened, "Plum," the tool is an addition to the Rapid Application Development (RAD) product category. Developers will be able to finish ColdFusi... (more)

According to OmniPilot Software, its recently released Lasso Professional Server (LP8) enables applications to be created with far less code than ColdFusion, and other programming languages. The company, a global provider of integrated management software, wanted to create a "bui... (more)

As Macromedia's annual developer conference, MAX 2004, got underway in New Orleans yesterday, the company took the opportunity to stress how important great Web experiences are to users in forming opinions about Web sites. Macromedia also previewed several innovations that are un... (more)

Macromedia has released Flex Builder; a new, integrated development environment (IDE) that the company says will streamline Flex application development. With the Flex Builder rollout, Macromedia hopes to provide momentum to its applications development initiative. The latest add... (more)

Macromedia has released an updater for ColdFusion MX 6.1. When talks first surfaced about updates to ColdFusion, it was expected that ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater would be a minor release, resolving bugs and security flaws. This is not the case with the updater Macromedia decided to... (more)

Acting on a hot tip from one of the readers of his blog, Steve Young, Ben Forta today was able to reveal that a trade magazine devoted to Windows and .NET is powered by, you guessed it, ColdFusion. Published by Penton Media, the magazine's site has lots of static pages, Forta add... (more)

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. "Client applications may not... (more)

The ColdFusion product team at Macromedia, that since shipping ColdFusion MX 6.1 in the summer of 2003, has been hard at work building the next major version of CF under the code-name "Blackstone," has been telling developers what they can expect. "We are very excited about the n... (more)

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 off... (more)

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. (more)

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. The student intranet created there - called "Spike" - has become one of the best known, ... (more)

He3, says Matt Liotta, will be available in beta form this weekend. Based on Eclipse 3.0 RC1, it will be updated shortly to the 3.0 Final release of Eclipse. It's a color-coding ColdFusion editor with tag completion - "a little rough round the edges but with great things promised... (more)

Just as you can tell a man by the company he keeps, so you can tell a company by whether or not its Web site is built and maintained using ColdFusion. Here is a summary, culled from Ben Forta's invaluable Who's Using ColdFusion? listings, of six leading technology companies who rel... (more)

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! On the panel this year are Hal Helms, Charlie Arehart, Michael Smith and Simon Horwith. The CFDJ panel invites questions... (more)

The simplicity, flexibility and processing power of Macromedia's ColdFusion MX technology, supplied Macromedia solutions distributor Dax Data, made it ideal for the development of a large call center application at Benefit Recovery Services (BRS), Johannesburg, South Africa. Web ... (more)

Macromedia Flex Now Available (San Francisco) - 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, declarati... (more)

According to the latest monthly figures from the UK Internet services company Netcraft, the number of IP addresses with sites using ColdFusion remains higher than the number of IP addresses using any other technology, including ASP.NET, JSP, and Java Servlets. ASP.NET is emerging... (more)