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

Rapid Visual Development for…..PHP. :o(

God, why can't we get something like this for ColdFusion: Delphi for PHP Adobe? New Atlanta? Please? Pretty please?

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