Diving into Flex; Ryan Stewart Still In Shock

Over the last year, I've had many conversations about Flex with the likes of Ryan Stewart and Rob Gonda. Now these are two guys that I REALLY respect and because of that, I've decided to take a serious look at… Continue Reading

SECURITY PATCH Issued for FireBug

A security patch has been issued by Joe Hewitt for FireBug, the popular FireFox extension for debugging JavaScript and Ajax applications. More details can be found here: http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/2007/04/04/security-update/

Pulling the jQuery Ajax Library Source File Directly from jQuery Servers

Directly from the jQuery Blog: “As a project, weve never discouraged first time users from using the jQuery Source Code straight from their personal site; it helps to get new users started with development, without having to worry about keeping… Continue Reading

BlueDragon 7.0 Officially Released! Competitive Upgrade Being Offered!

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

How to Promote ColdFusion

Guys, since launching GotCFM.com, the list of CFML-based sites has grown tremendously. Thats VERY cool and its obviously exciting to see so many sites, both old and new, using CF-technologies at their core. But I want to expand GotCFM.com now… Continue Reading

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

jQuery and Ext 1.0 – Alpha 2 Release is Up. Get it Whiles its Hot!

The second Alpha release of Ext 1.0 (formerly known as YUI-Ext) has been released by Jack Slocum. Ext 1.0 is now officially decoupled from YUI and has incorporated thejQuery Ajax/JavaScript library into the mix. You can check out more details… 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?

jQuery & Ext: A JavaScript & Ajax Partnership Made in Heaven

If you're doing any type of Web 2.0/RIA development, then you're bound to know about Jack Slocum's YUI-Ext component library. Its a suite of world class, professionally developed JavaScript controls that truly provide a refined desktop feel to web applications.… 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