The authors of the bestselling book 'RIA with Adobe Flex and Java' will teach a one of a kind workshop that is aimed at Java developers with no or limited experience in developing enterprise-grade J2EE application with Adobe Flex front end.

The wait is over and the latest version of ColdFusion has just been released in beta. Code named 'Scorpio' (the eighth sign of the Zodiac) during the development stages, the new release is officially named ColdFusion 8 and has just recently been made available for free trial beta accou...

Now that Scorpio is here (at least in beta), it is time to start figuring out all the new tricks of the trade, right? However, as most of your clients will not be switching immediately, you will still have to be doing ColdFusion 7 work for some time.

Roman astrology turned into the Greek alphabet recently, with the announcement that the previously named 'Scorpio' has been released as the ColdFusion 8 Beta. Initial reaction from the most sophisticated members of the CF community was positive.

The Web content management system (Web CMS) for marketing is now 100 percent compliant with Adobe ColdFusion 8, which means it can take full advantage of all the features and functional benefits of the new, soon-to-be-released ColdFusion 8 server platform. The latest Hot Banana rele...

In short, unless my findings are incorrect, Silverlight, as it stands now, with no support for data binding, service consumption, or basic UI controls, is a worthless steamy pile. I just took a huge step in Flex's direction.

Like the previous incarnations of, the new AJAX enabled HTML grid allows data to be updated right within the grid. When it is used in edit mode, column values may be edited as needed, and rows may be deleted. Unfortunately, the current implementation of the HTML does not support insert...

Until recently, tuning IT application performance has been largely a guessing game. This is both surprising and unacceptable considering the relentless focus IT organizations put on cost-efficiency and productivity. The traditional approaches to database and application tuning that in...

Everyone is excited about ColdFusion 8; the blogs have been buzzing, feedback has been superb, lots of attendees expressed relief and gratitude at seeing such a compelling ColdFusion built in this new Adobe era - no complaints, no negative feedback, just real enthusiasm and excitement....

Adobe Systems released the beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly code named Apollo. Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system application runtime that allows developers to use HTML/CSS, Ajax, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex to extend rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the d...

Since 1998, finalsite has been bringing cutting-edge web design and web software to leading independent schools and organizations around the world. finalsite currently serves nearly 200 independent schools and a total of nearly 500 schools and educational organizations of all types. fi...

Adobe Systems announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 3 software, the cross platform, free open source framework for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs). This major functional release adds rich new UI capabilities, enhanced developer productivity, desktop deployment and enterpri...

Flex Developer Bootcamp is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. The one-day bootcamp will take place on June 24, 2007, at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

Our instructors are not those fly by night trainers that would teach you by reading aloud someone's manual in the classroom. We spend most of our time working on the real-world projects that include Adobe Flex, Java, and a plethora of other technologies. We can offer you Adobe Certifie...

Here is some more information about the first public beta release of Flex 3 (now available on Adobe labs), the first major deliverable for the open source Flex project (including a public bug base, and the beginning of public nightly builds). Some of the new features in Flex Builder 3 ...

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And you can get it right now on Labs.

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 investments.

Over the past few years it's gotten a lot harder to write ColdFusion code. That's not to say that CFML has changed significantly. You can still write code today that's much the same as what you wrote five years ago or longer. However, with the introduction of CFCs in CFMX, ColdFusion s...

I typically store phone numbers in one field (instead of using a separate field for each part of a phone number). While this usually works quite well, I have discovered that it can cause issues when I want a phone number to display in the same format regardless of how it was originally...

There have been some comments on other entries here regarding JSON. JSON is a data interchange format, and is primarily used as a way to package data for use with AJAX development. ColdFusion 8 (aka Scorpio) adds support for JSON in several ways.

I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that display...

Many of us have built related select controls, forms with two (or more) drop down controls, where making a change in one control causes the available selections in the related control to change. For example, selecting a category in one control displays category products in a related co...

There are a couple of things to note before we begin. First, HTTP Compression is a great way to speed up your Website and lower bandwidth utilization all at the same time. In this example, your ColdFusion server (6.1 and above) will encode CFML output using GZIP and have the browser de...

COOP seems to rely on a CFC in the same folder as the calling file and with the same name (except the .cfc) extension. John called this a 'coprocessor'. It looked a lot like a page controller to me. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I was unsure of how I felt about introdu...

We are teaching yet another one-day Flex Bootcamp on Sunday, June 24 as a part of the SOA World Conference & Expo in New York City. No prior knowledge of Flex is required, but you should understand object-oriented programming and XML. This is pretty intensive hand-on learning (attendee...

'Flex Developer Bootcamp' is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. Flex Developer Bootcamp is a hands-on workshop that is not offered anywhere else: during this day attendees will...

My partner Victor and I will be running a series of intensive 'SYS-CON Events Flex Developer Bootcamp' across the country. First, we ran such workshop as a part of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East last month in New York City. We've received a very positive and exciting feedbac...

ColdFusion MX7 introduced the ability to asynchronously spawn ColdFusion requests using an event gateway. While many take advantage of this capability, it has some significant limitations, the biggest of which is that threads can only be spawned, there is no way to monitor spawned thre...

We'll duplicate our PHP Web service in ColdFusion now using XMLRPC.CFC to format our XML response and the CFJSON.cfm for our JSON response. This is the ColdFusion equivalent of the PHP Web service we just looked at. It can be accessed in a REST-like manner through the resources URI and...

After a 7 year hiatus, ColdFusion once again has an interactive debugger, and this time it is built on top of Eclipse (and uses the same debugging interface as Flex Builder, and other Eclipse plug-ins). If you are interested in taking the debugger for a spin, here's what you need to kn...

One of the major features of upcoming Adobe Apollo is support disconnected Web applications, and Adobe's Kevin Lynch announced that Google Gears will be available in Apollo. Adobe Flex applications already use the space on the client's disk for storing instances of any objects (this is...

On May 30, Adobe released the public beta of ColdFusion 8. Although things can change between the public beta and the final release - the features included in CF 8 are unlikely to change between now and the official release, so I thought I'd give a high-level overview of some significa...

Nitobi (http://www.nitobi.com) has announced it will support the ColdFusion platform in its suite of enterprise AJAX components. The ColdFusion edition of Nitobi Grid and Combobox offers support to newer as well as older versions of Coldfusion. The implementation enables a simple backw...

This is an example that I used when demonstrating ColdFusion 8 .NET integration on the recent usergroup tour, and as requested, I am posting it publicly. GetDriveInfo() returns a query containing specifics about the hard drives on your server, it returns all drives unless an optional d...

The ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse include RDS panels, a Services Browser panel, a CF Log Viewer, RDS support, help, wizards, and of course the interactive debugger. These extensions are available for download along with ColdFusion 8 and will be distributed with the product when it ...

Customers of all sizes have actively participated in the ColdFusion public beta and found the solution offers many compelling reasons to upgrade. 'ColdFusion 8 delivers several enhancements that boost day-to-day productivity,' said Brian Rinaldi, ColdFusion Developer, Distributed Compu...

So what does this have to do with ColdFusion? Well, Jason Delmore mentioned this in passing at cf:Objective (and few picked up on it), but we plan to include Apache Derby in ColdFusion Scorpio. The practical implication of this is that if you have to distribute an app that needs a data...

DataMgr 2.1 is now in beta. Aside from fixing one or two small bugs, nothing has changed from the Alpha release. Take this as a pretty good sign as I changed a fair bit of the inner workings of DataMgr in order to achieve the new features of 2.1. It has been running on several live sit...

Today I'm speaking with Ben Forta, the technical evangelist for Adobe. The first thing I have to ask you is - the acquisition has happened, Adobe is now controlling ColdFusion and has taken over everything that Macromedia was doing, and this is my first chance to really speak with you ...

When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin...