GotCFM.com – CF Evangelism Site a HUGE Success

Its funny to think that I built GotCFM.com over a week ago and I still haven't had a chance to blog about it. Well, between the massive and positive response towards the site, work and a trip to California, blogging… Continue Reading →

Tim Buntel Really Cares About ColdFusion Developers

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 →

ColdFusion: How Misconceptions Continue to Plague It

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 →

Holy Cow! Another CF Big-Wig Using the jQuery Ajax Library

First it was Rob Gonda. Next, Joe Danziger saw the light. Then Dan Switzer joined the fray. Then I find Tony Petruzzi doing some VERY cool stuff. Now super rock star ColdFusion expert Ben Nadel has joined the growing list… Continue Reading →

AjaxCFC Updated by Rob Gonda

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 →

jQuery & ColdFusion: AJAX for ColdFusion

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 →

Performance: BlueDragon & CFMX Under Load

Vince Bonfanti and the New Atlanta crew did some performance testing recently in response to micro-benchmarks published by Mark Drew. I have to say that I was completely floored by the performance improvements in BlueDragon JX 7 Beta. Its great… Continue Reading →

Why jQuery Rocks or How I Got Joe Danziger to Convert

Joe Danziger is a very well-known Ajax advocate in the ColdFusion community whose produced some really awesome ColdFusion/Ajax articles for sys-con and helped spread the word about Ajax and CF via his site. Well, in my efforts to get people… Continue Reading →

Adobe, Where are the ColdFusion Ads?

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 →