I had a great chat with Tim Buntel, Adobe's Sr. Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion, yesterday regarding my recent posting about the misconceptions plaguing ColdFusion. We touched on several topics including: Tims budgetary constraints Adobes efforts to help subsidize existing… Continue Reading
For the love of God, it REALLY gets old. I jet on over to the Smith Project Digg posting to Digg it up and read more about it. As I look through the comments, it just refreshes my memory as… Continue Reading
AjaxCFC, the most widely used Ajax/ColdFusion component library for ColdFusion, has been updated to use jQuery v1.1, the latest release of the popular Ajax/JS library. Several updates have been done to logging, error trapping, security checks, constructor methods, and serialization… Continue Reading
Dan G. Switzer, the main main behind the awesome qForms Javascript Validation Library has been frequenting the jQuery discussion list. Looks like he's also taking advantage of the very hot jQuery Ajax/Javascript Library for his projects. Its great to see… Continue Reading
I'm a HUGE advocate for the jQuery Ajax/Javascript library. It's lean, fast and VERY feature rich. Its on par with ANY JS lib out there. One of the big thinks lacking, at least from a ColdFusion perspective, was the ability… Continue Reading
Earlier in November, I commented on Sean Corfield's Blog about how I felt the both MM & Adobe had, to date, failed miserably in promoting ColdFusion as the application server of choice for web development. Sean replied with: “Rey, what… Continue Reading
I was reading Kay Smoljak's recent blog entry, ColdFusion – NOT a steaming pile of… in which she describes her experience with Kevin Yank of SitePoint.com. Now, a little while ago, Kevin really stirred the pot by calling CF development… Continue Reading
I took a very informal poll on CF-Talk to see what Ajax frameworks were being used in the ColdFusion community. The results were interesting but not too surprising. Some were sticking to the CF-based frameworks such as AjaxCFC, CFAjax and… Continue Reading
Here's a tip that I wanted to share within everyone here. It may be known but I only found out about it today and wanted to share. If you ever get the dreaded “Invalid Reply from Server” message from AjaxCFC,… Continue Reading
Having been a long time reader of the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, I was disappointed with what I felt was a gradual decline in substance & articles coupled with a substantial increase advertisements. I just didn't find the articles as informative… Continue Reading