This morning, during the CFUnited keynote, we announced that ColdFusion would be made freely available for educational use (including students and faculty). The program is modeled on the Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro for Education program, and will use similar distribution and similar eligibility and verification requirements. Continue reading »
CFML has come a long way in over a decade. Over the years the language has evolved, sometimes gradually and thoughtfully, other times less so, but evolved it has. And Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe have, understandably, been the primary stewards of the language, fueling that evolution based on customer feedback, industry trends, as well as our own innovation. We’ve not always been successful (I have my own long list of CFML inconsistencies, gotchas, and the like, and others do too), but in general we’ve always tried to do the right thing, an almost impossible task. Continue reading »
Whether you know or not, Model-Glue is a pure OO web application framework based on the MVC design pattern. Its goal is to simplify development of OO ColdFusion and Flex applications. Using Model-Glue framework you can create Rich Internet Application easily and with less coding than others.I have not looked at the code and not used it yet,even there are not any documentation on the website–so it’s hard to say how good it will be,but I will try it as soon possible–at least it seems very strong and very perfect. Continue reading »
Over the years there has been infrequent but ongoing discussion about ColdFusion pricing. Some feel that the price is too high and that lowering it would increase product use. Others believe that the product has been priced far too low, and that raising it would increase respect among analysts and industry experts. Some want it given away, free or open source. Others have asked for changing versioning, and including a free option. There are lots of suggestions, and lots of opinions. And contrary to what some seem to believe, we actually do spend a considerable amount of time trying to figure all of this out. Continue reading »
I ran through a series of demos (and ran over time, of course) and several attendees asked (repeatedly, both during the session and afterwards) for me to clarify which needed Data Services and which didn’t, as well as which needed LiveCycle Data Services versus those which could use the free open-source BlazeDS.
And so, in the order that they were presented: Continue reading »
