On CF-Talk, there's been an ongoing thread about Railo's blazing performance. Railo has always been known for its blazing speed and I'm glad people are finally taking notice. David Low posted an interesting speed comparison between CF8 & Railo. David's… Continue Reading
Adobe's Jason Delmore just sent me a bunch of “Powered By” logos for ColdFusion 8. These are fresh of the presses!
So now that I'm using Eclipse along with CFEclipse and Aptana, I'd like to integrate a Subversion plugin. The two choices that seem to stand out are Subclipse and Subversive. The last time I tried to install Subclipse, it hosed… Continue Reading
My bud Joe Danziger keeps telling me that I need to jump to Eclipse to get some serious productivity gains. I do actually have the latest version installed but one of the things that has been holding me back from… Continue Reading
I'm testing out the upgrade process from CFMX 6.1 to CFMX 7 on one of my servers. I've never done an upgrade before. Normally, its an uninstall of the prior version and a clean install of the latest. After getting… Continue Reading
In chatting with Adobe, one thing that came out was that their Ajax indicator (the spinning activity indicator) had not be optimized. Since this is just an animated .gif file, its an easy replacement. Just go to \CFIDE\scripts\ajax\images and replace… Continue Reading
There's been a lot of discussion recently about the page size being generated by the CF8 Ajax components and most of it has been really positive with Adobe assuring us that they're working on minimizing the YUI, Ext and Spry… Continue Reading
ColdFusion 8 is looking very hot and its gotten a tremendous amount of much deserved attention. Having done Ajax development with other tools, I'm obviously very interested in the Ajax widget tags included in CF8. Dan Vega had a nice,… Continue Reading
In a recent interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne, he candidly admitted that the the Ruby programming language, and by association the Rails framework, aren't very scalable. A couple of comments really stuck out: “Running on Rails has forced us… Continue Reading
Its finally here! BlueDragon 7.0 has been officially released. Its got a ton of great new features including enhanced CFC support and the new CFTHREAD tag for multi-threaded programming as well MAJOR performance improvements that truly make it a top-notch… Continue Reading