<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:23:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from COLDFUSION DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/5/cfdj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Red Hat Numbers Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/600704.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/600704.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/600704_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.]]></description></item><item><title>Novell Delivers Optimized SUSE Linux Enterprise Performance for VMware Virtualization Environments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591527.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591527.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591527_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell announced it is collaborating with VMware to improve Linux performance in VMware environments by incorporating support for the VMware Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) into the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel. Demonstrating their commitment to provide open interoperability and optimization for virtualized environments, the companies have worked together to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for the VMware platform.]]></description></item><item><title>VirtenSys Demonstrates PCI Express Based I/O Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591457.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591457.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591457_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VirtenSys has developed a PCI Express based I/O technology that virtualizes and shares off-the-shelf I/O adapters among multiple physical servers without the need for adapter, device driver, or server modifications. This technology is a critical capability that will accelerate adoption of the VirtenSys PCI Express I/O virtualization products. The cost effective VirtenSys products improve I/O utilization to greater than 80 percent; enhance throughput, and reduce I/O cost and power consumption by as much as 50 percent. The products also simplify data center management by dynamically allocating, sharing, and migrating I/O resources among servers without physical re-configuration, resulting in reduced Operational Expenses (OpEx).]]></description></item><item><title>Power Panel: The Importance of Middleware and Data Services</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/588565.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/588565.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/588565_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A panel of experts and executives from organizations that are leading providers and consumers of technology will discuss trends and important technologies for enterprise and Internet computing. The experts will discuss the role of databases and database technology trends that enhance SOA and Web development. The session will also focus on preferred solutions for architecture and middleware to enable applications and services to access data from SQL and other data sources.]]></description></item><item><title>MuleSource Nominated for SYS-CON&apos;s &quot;SOA World Magazine Readers&apos; Choice Awards&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591421.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591421.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/591421_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mule is an open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Designed to support high-performance, multi-protocol transactions between heterogeneous systems and services, Mule provides the basis for service oriented architecture (SOA). With a standards-based, zero intrusion approach to existing infrastructure and a simplified development model, Mule adapts to your environment and prevents vendor lock-in. The open source model allows organizations to achieve rapid ROI, and open access to source code enables developers to customize Mule to readily meet their needs.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtual Computing in the Cloud</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586198.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586198.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586198_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtual Cloud Computing represents the next wave of virtualization and offers significant market opportunities by providing a new, simpler, and much more pervasive platform for on-demand, desktop and application service delivery. While server-side virtualization helps enterprises optimize data center resources, the use of a universal dialtone technology offers a significantly larger market for desktop users in both commercial and consumer segments. The key to virtual cloud computing is in the universal dialtone which securely links users to desktop applications and content resources, on demand, via any device.]]></description></item><item><title>Don&apos;t Let Inefficient Data Access Undermine Your Virtualization Goals</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586142.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586142.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/586142_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Data center architects naturally seek to employ server virtualization to maximize the use of their hardware systems. An often overlooked factor that can undermine this goal is data connectivity. 75 to 95 percent of the response time now associated with database access can often be attributed to the data connectivity layer - and that's using traditional, non-virtualized servers. Running multiple virtual servers on a single machine can introduce additional complications involving data access. This presentation will examine the importance of data connectivity in a virtualized environment, and the need to take an intelligent approach to data access in order to truly reap the benefit of a virtualization strategy.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World - More on the Software Assembly Question</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/566433.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/566433.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/566433_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One aspect of the debate over software productivity and assembly is whether or not visual tools can help. I think that they do - visual abstractions can be very meaningful - but I do not know of any visual system that actually solves the complete problem (i.e none have solved the customization/round trip problem). UML tools are furthermore too object oriented for some applications - such as services and REST.]]></description></item><item><title>Cloud Computing: rBuilder Delivers Scientific Applications as Virtual Appliances</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/583150.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/583150.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/583150_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[rPath announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver virtual appliances to both scientists' desktops and computational clouds. The use of rBuilder in these environments reduces the effort required to support users and allows researchers to take advantage of underutilized computational resources.]]></description></item><item><title>Avoiding a SOA Fiasco: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565858.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565858.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565858_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it is too late. The session will be of interest to anyone planning an SOA initiative, primarily CIOs, Technical Managers, Project Directors and Technical Architects.]]></description></item><item><title>A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565629.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565629.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565629_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SOA is mostly associated with technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweight framework that can be used to orchestrate services in the broadest sense. It is highly extendable, very versatile and can be easily embedded in client and/or server applications. Attendees will learn how jBPM can be used in a pure workflow scenario as well as in a situation involving automated business steps.]]></description></item><item><title>CEP - the Secret Weapon for SOA Application Performance Management</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565933.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565933.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/565933_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, databases, applications and networks. One of the biggest challenges inherent in realizing the benefits of SOA is effectively managing all of these diverse components to ensure the high availability and performance of the applications running in them to meet crucial Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This session will explore Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and offer practical insights into how CEP can be leveraged to enable rapid real-time problem correction and predictive problem prevention that is vital to successful SOA implementations.]]></description></item><item><title>Ruby on Rails 2.1 is Very Close</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/576793.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/576793.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/576793_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nearly four years after its initial release, Ruby on Rails is edging ever closer to version 2.1. Rails 0.5 was released June 24 of 2004, and its creator David Heinemeier Hansson hopes that v2.1, currently in release candidate state, will be out any moment. 'We've been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release,' blogged Heinemeier Hansson just last month.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World - Does Virtualization Allow Performance &amp; Load Testing?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/571596.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/571596.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/571596_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[But that same virtualization is perhaps even more valuable in the performance lab, if you can apply serious load testing to it. The constraints of having a realistic environment and test data to test and develop against is holding these teams back from finding performance issues much earlier - so we can gauge SLAs (service levels) at the component level. And in SOA - where you are dealing with services and underlying systems that are distributed and constantly changing, replicating that whole environment is incredibly costly and time consuming.]]></description></item><item><title>Can Windows Save OLPC?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/572528.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/572528.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/572528_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Despite hisses and boos from the open source side of the house One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is now officially soldered at the hip to Microsoft. Its novel XO laptop is supposed to go to trials in a half-dozen developing countries next month fitted with XP and a student version of Office and it expects to have a dual-boot Windows-Red Hat version ready by October.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft to Support ODF in Office 2007 Service Pack 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573987.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573987.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573987_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Office will support the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 format when Office 2007 Service Pack 2 arrives in the first half of 2009. Microsoft said users will be able to open, edit and save documents in ODF from directly inside Office application without having to install any other code. That means no more translators. They will even be able to set ODF as the default.]]></description></item><item><title>Neocleus Enters the $1.8b Desktop Virtualization Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573717.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573717.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/573717_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Neocleus announced a suite of trusted virtual solutions for endpoints such as desktops and laptops. The solution, Neocleus Trusted Edge, provides the means for employees, partners and customers to connect to corporate resources from any endpoint regardless of its state of security. Neocleus Trusted Edge is also a solution to come to market leveraging Neocleus' hypervisor open source contributions which include enhancements the company made to the Xen Hypervisor to work directly on endpoints.]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint: Not Every ColdFusion Developer Should Be A Flex Developer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/551125_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I am going to go ahead and contend that although a good number of ColdFusion developers can grasp and understand Flex very well, there are also a good number of ColdFusion developers who have no business going anywhere near Flex. Why do I say this? I am a big fan of Flex. I use it daily to create, what I think are, some kick-ass applications. It is a powerful tool that really changes the game on the web and the desktop. That being said, it is not a tool that every ColdFusion developer can grasp.]]></description></item><item><title>Building an IM Bot Using ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/138960.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/138960.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/138960_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I recently brought a Google Talk bot that I put online at cfdocs@gmail.com. Google Talk users can add this user to their buddy list and then submit CFML tag and function lookups to it. (I've also brought Yahoo IM and AIM versions online as nickname cflivedocs, but more on those shortly). In this column I'll explain exactly what the IM bot is and what it does, and show you how to easily create a bot of your own.]]></description></item><item><title>Improve Your Coding Smarts with ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437764_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[If you read CF-related blogs, you've undoubtedly stumbled upon discussions of seemingly arcane subjects like continuations or closures or first-class objects or absence of side effects. It's likely bloggers have tracked down the source - some would say fount - of such concepts and you'll find them waxing eloquent. As they should.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;ColdFusion Killer&quot; BlueDragon Open Source Launch Date Announced</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/526445_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The wait is coming to an end. We are working feverishly to get the open source version of BlueDragon into the wild on the 3rd of May 2008 at cf.Objective(), when Vince presents his BOF. Vince will illustrate the first public open source version of BlueDragon. This will including the building of it, the deployment and other items of interest. If you want to be among the first to witness this, then get over there.]]></description></item><item><title>ColdFusion Language to be Commoditized on Java Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/516450_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[New Atlanta will be creating and distributing a free open-source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) version of BlueDragon, its ColdFusion-compatible web application server. It will be released under the popular GPL license, mirroring the licensing path chosen by MySQL and Java. BlueDragon has been around for nearly a decade now.]]></description></item><item><title>Task Portfolio Software Created Using ColdFusion 7</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/502896_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Bolling Technology has announced that the Cordish Company is the first major client for its new online task management software product, Task Portfolio. Invented by owner and Baltimore native Raynard T. Bolling, Task Portfolio is an enterprise level, web-based task management tool that gives managers and employees the ability to efficiently assign and track tasks throughout their organizations. Task Portfolio can be used to manage various tasks in any company or industry.]]></description></item><item><title>Master Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/490366_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools--including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components--make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps. After this session, even beginner developers will be able to add AJAX interactions to web applications. This session is a must for ambitious, novice and intermediate designers anxious to use AJAX in their applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft&apos;s Office Chief To Retire; Replaced by Macromedia CEO During Adobe&apos;s Acquisition</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/484418_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft disclosed late Thursday that Jeff Raikes, the head of its Office operation, second only to Windows in bringing in revenue, was retiring and will be replaced by Stephen Elop, 44, Jupiter Networks' short-term COO.  Before Jupiter, Elop was president of worldwide field operations at Adobe by virtue of Adobe's 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, where he was president and CEO. Elop also has experience as a chief information officer. The plan is for Raikes, 49, to hang around until September as a backstop as a member of the senior leadership team for purposes of transition.]]></description></item><item><title>Customers Embrace CommonSpot Version 5.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/480197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PaperThin, Inc. announced that four customers have recently gone live on CommonSpot Version 5.0, including: LeSea Broadcasting, Ping Identity, Tulane University, and Tuthill Corporation. In addition, 30 customers are currently implementing the new solution which is being widely embraced for its inherent ease-of-use and improved flexibility.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Moves One Step Closer To AIR 1.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/476863_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['AIR Beta 3 is an exciting release that takes us one step closer to AIR 1.0,' writes Platform Evangelist Kevin Hoyt in a recent commentary on eight changes from AIR Beta 2. 'Unlike the myriad of changes introduced in the move from AIR Beta 1 to AIR Beta 2,' Hoyt added, 'the changes in AIR Beta 3 are far more subtle.' This stability,e ne noted, indicates the growing maturity of the product.]]></description></item><item><title>T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/468626_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Its 47-page suit filed in district court in New York the other day says that since IBM's consent decree with the United States government was phased out in 2001 IBM has been systemically squeezing out any competition to its mainframe monopoly and that it has reneged on its undertaking to the government to keep its mainframe operating system available on RAND licensing terms after the decree expired.]]></description></item><item><title>Android: Who Hates Google Over the Phone?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/461379_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use fast OpenGL libraries and are not afraid to be hardware-specific.]]></description></item><item><title>Lynda.com Releases ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/458701_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Lynda.com, a self-paced digital media and design training, introduced ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics. ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics demonstrates how to utilize ColdFusion 8 to its full potential, from setting up a project to using ColdFusion Components and sessions in a shopping cart application.]]></description></item><item><title>Hot Banana Now Available on Salesforce.com&apos;s AppExchange</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/452153_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hot Banana, the Web Content Management Solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace. The two-way integration between Hot Banana's Web content management solution and Salesforce means that both sales and marketing get what they need in the format they want. Marketing maintains full control over Web forms and landing pages, while sales teams obtain lead generation data quickly and in their preferred format.]]></description></item><item><title>CFImage Part 3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441654_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion 8 introduces the CFImage tag and dozens of image manipulation functions. We have already looked at reading and writing image files and we have covered the basic yet powerful image manipulation possible through CFImage tag actions alone. Now we know enough to be able to really start exploring the vast feature set of ColdFusion 8 image manipulation. When it comes to something like this your imagination is really the only limit, so it makes it a bit more difficult to come up with simple ways to learn this stuff. I find that task-based learning works well and will let us accomplish real-world goals while touching on many aspects of image manipulation.]]></description></item><item><title>Every Beginner Must Grow Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441653_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Do you remember January of 2004? Macromedia had just released ColdFusion 6.1 a few months earlier. CFCs finally worked! Fancy JavaScript techniques were not pulled together under the moniker of AJAX. Rich Internet applications were just a casual mention in a Macromedia whitepaper. There was only one ColdFusion framework in common use and Flex was an unnamed beta behind the Macromedia cloak of secrecy. Macromedia Central was the way to deploy Flex apps to the desktop.]]></description></item><item><title>Working with the Apache Derby Database and ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441652_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Early releases of ColdFusion (under Allaire) focused on the Windows market and it was common to include example Access databases. It was common for entry-level developers to take this example to heart and build systems on Access back-ends. One didn't have to install, set up, admin, or most importantly pay for anything. With the beta release of ColdFusion 8, Adobe is providing support for an array of open source databases. Now using PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Apache Derby (formerly IBM Cloudscape) has been made that simpler for CF developers since JDBC drivers for all of them are included. Any of these solutions can be used for the free distribution of databases on either Windows or *nix.]]></description></item><item><title>A Moment Of Silence... &quot;Not&quot; in Memory of ColdFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/443130_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Our 'pals' at SYS-CON have done it again. Just when I thought they had displayed the utmost in immaturity and unprofessionalism, they manage to make even bigger fools of themselves. And no, I am not going to link to specific posts or pages, and I ask that comments refrain from the same - considering that all they have nowadays are measly ads, I do not want to in any way contribute to their ad revenue. Suffice it to say that the more we see of SYS-CON's petty antics, the more our decision to cut their funding makes sense. Of course, that is what has triggered this recent outbreak of logorrhoea, and judging by their meaningless drivel I can only assume that the few employees who were not wise enough to jump ship are feeling somewhat desperate. And so, perhaps a moment of silence is in order for the fallen SYS-CON. Or ... nah, what the heck, a toast is more appropriate. Cheers!']]></description></item><item><title>A Complete Application with RPC Communications...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441574_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[For security reasons (similar to the Java sandbox concept), Flash clients can only access the domains they come from, unless other servers declare, explicitly or implicitly, trust to SWF files downloaded from our domain by a corresponding record in a crossdomain.xml file. But our portfolio SWF wasn't loaded from finance.yahoo.com, and we aren't allowed to install crossdomain.xml on the Yahoo! servers. We'll use another technique called Flex proxy.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Adobe &quot;Officially&quot; Killing ColdFusion?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/442727_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As I'm now officially on the Flex Builder team, I wanted to take a moment to make sure everybody knows where to go for ColdFusion help. Thanks to all of you who had kind words and good wishes for me at MAX last week. While I'm focused now on making Flex Builder even better, I'll still remain involved in the ColdFusion world. My last 'official' ColdFusion duties will be to present on our European ColdFusion 8 launch tour later this month. I'll post some additional information on those events shortly.]]></description></item><item><title>My name is Dave Livingston and I killed BlogFusion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441569_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Dave Livingston and I killed BlogFusion. Many of the folks in the ColdFusion community consider it dead and have moved off to other open source CF blogging applications. Well, it's not gone. BlogFusion is actually alive and well, we just haven't done a very good job of letting the rest of the world know that or how it's morphed.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe ColdFusion Is As Dead As a Door Nail</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441186_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Joshua Cyr at Macromedia blogs writes: 'I got some spam from sys-con again today. I have tried for months now to get off their damn lists. At any rate the subject caught my eye. 'ColdFusion 8 is Here'. Thats odd... so I decide to read the email. Turns out their mail server probably just sent a big batch of old email since the mail date is October 9th, but the date in the actual email content is August 8th. Gave me a chuckle for so many reasons. :-) As for the acutal content... Most of the 'newsletter' is just ads and interviews that are actually advertisments.']]></description></item><item><title>Adobe ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/441568_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Exciting news for organizations and developers using ColdFusion: Adobe released ColdFusion 8 on July 30. This release is a major milestone for the product: it is the first full-version ColdFusion release by Adobe since the acquisition of Macromedia. With the release of CF 8, Adobe has shown their commitment to the product and their commitment to enabling ColdFusion developers to build better Web-enabled applications faster than with any other technology.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe&apos;s Decision Upsets ColdFusion Community</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/427080_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['The biggest problem here is that it looks bad for ColdFusion. The first print magazine dedicated to it has left the building,' says Michael Dinowitz in his blog about the Adobe decision to kill CFDJ. 'The very fact that they're moving the magazine from ColdFusion, an Adobe product, to Silverlight, a Microsoft product, can and will be used against ColdFusion.' Other bloggers directed their disappointment toward SYS-CON, the publisher of the magazine, rather than Adobe, which made the decision to kill the title.]]></description></item><item><title>What Kind of ColdFusion Developer Are You?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437665_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My editorial last month was a high-level overview of all the new features in ColdFusion 8. Many of these features were generally divided into one of two categories: features that address developer productivity and those that focus on integrating with other products and technologies.]]></description></item><item><title>CFImage Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437766_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ColdFusion 8 has a load of awesome image manipulation functionality. So much so, in fact, that it will take several articles to discuss it in any sort of decent way. In Part 1 of this article (CFDJ, Vol. 9, issue 5), we spent the entire post just exploring all the ways in which ColdFusion 8 can read in and write out/save images.]]></description></item><item><title>Test Driving ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437668_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Of course, since this is ColdFusion I expected nothing less than this, i.e., powerful AJAX functionality combined with the simplicity of a tag-based language, and that's exactly what the Auto-Suggest AJAX component delivers. The code in Listing 1 is a simple example in which the auto-suggest attribute of the  tag has been populated with hard-coded values. If you're running ColdFusion 8 yourself and want to get a firsthand look at this feature, you should be able to copy and paste the code from Listing 1 and save it as a new ColdFusion file. Figure 1 shows the suggested search terms displayed by the auto-suggest attribute as text is entered into the control.]]></description></item><item><title>Do We Really Need These Newfangled ColdFusion Features?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/437763_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago in the #coldfusion channel on the Dalnet IRC network we had a rather spirited discussion about some of the new features in ColdFusion 8. The discussion focused on  and its related tags, and whether ColdFusion developers actually needed such functionality as part of the product we have all come to know and love.]]></description></item><item><title>Did You Get the Web 2.0 Memo?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428865_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The 'upgrade' from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful, and interesting for consumers and the business community. The evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 has been about improvements in the Web 'experience' - from that of simply browsing static content and graphic images that display upon request, to an all-new highly interactive, programmable, and much more useful Web.]]></description></item><item><title>FuseTalk Announces New Release, v3.1 Jives with ColdFusion 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/431347_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[FuseTalk, created in 1999 by developers Jason Clark and Dominic Plouffe, has released the latest version of its flagship  Internet forum and weblogging software for corporate, government and educational organizations. Version 3.1 performs extremely well on ColdFusion 8, according to the company.]]></description></item><item><title>CFDynamics Is Hosting Jumpstart&apos;s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/428343_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their hosting of Jumpstart?s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder that will allow participants to find reading events being held in their communities on the record-breaking day, September 20.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON to Relaunch CFDJ as Silverlight Developer&apos;s Journal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SYS-CON Media announced today its plans to relaunch CFDJ - ColdFusion Developer's Journal as Silverlight Developer's Journal. The premier issue of SLDJ will be debuted at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara California.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON to Offer Free Subscriptions to ColdFusion Developer&apos;s Journal Readers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173.htm</guid><link>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426173_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CFDJ was launched 10 years ago as a custom developer magazine with the direct support of Allaire Corporation. This support continued after the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia. After ColdFusion became part of the Adobe product line Adobe recently decided to discontinue its support of the magazine. SYS-CON will offer free one year digital subscription to all CFDJ readers to a magazine of their choice, either Flex Developer's Journal or Silverlight Developer's Journal.]]></description></item></channel></rss>