Robert Diamond

The name on everyone's lips these days is Blackstone, the current code name for the next release of ColdFusion, which is coming in early 2005. Look for beta testing to start later in 2004, with info on Macromedia's site when that becomes available. Folks around the country have ... (more)

Tim Buntel, the ColdFusion Product Manager for Macromedia, started a new blog about Blackstone (the next release of ColdFusion) that's well worth reading and bookmarking over at www.buntel.com/blog/. In it, he makes reference to something that we've talked about here and elsewhe... (more)

Spring has finally sprung, even though you can't really tell from the odd weather that we've been having here in New York lately. Along with spring, there are a few tidbits of useful news to cover this month from Macromedia and elsewhere. First up, there are a useful new hot fix... (more)

As many of you know from my editorial a few months back, I made the official switch from Homesite+ to Dreamweaver MX 2004 shortly after it was first released. The new product took some getting used to and the transition stretched out; it wasn't until I uninstalled Homesite+ entir... (more)

Macromedia has started an interesting new promotional campaign for ColdFusion that proclaims a whole slew of statistics and gives a partial list of some of the big names using ColdFusion solutions. You can see it on their Web site at http://macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/prov... (more)

I'm writing this month's editorial from the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in a currently frozen New York City, so it's naturally got me in a "Linux Frame of Mind." When talking to many CFMLers at the Macromedia MAX Conference this year, I found a mixed bag of opinions about Linu... (more)

When Macromedia first announced last year that it would be joining the old UCon and DevCon together, combining the best of the two events into "Macromedia MAX 2003" - subsequently held in Salt Lake City in November - there were the inevitable rumblings in the user/developer commu... (more)

In last month's issue of CFDJ, Simon Horwith reported on MAX 2003 and all it had to offer. Here, we follow CFDJ editor-in-chief Rob Diamond as he checked out the floor of MAX 2003. activePDF is a leading provider of PDF creation, conversion, and development tools for Windows, of... (more)

ColdFusion as a whole faces many challenges in the year ahead, as does each of us in the CF development community. These challenges range from those beyond our individual control, like the economy, to things that we can control like our skillsets. Then there are the unexpected ch... (more)

I'm writing this month's editorial from MAX, the 2003 Macromedia conference in Salt Lake City. The conference has undergone both name and location changes over the past few years, but one key thing remains the same and that's the overall level of excitement of Macromedia's develo... (more)

The annual Macromedia conference has undergone both a name and location change this year. One key thing remains the same, though and that's the overall level and excitement of Macromedia's development community. By many reports, attendance here at MAX 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah,... (more)

Every month when it comes time to write this editorial, I look around at a variety of sources for inspiration. It's not as easy writing each month as most of us on the magazine (hopefully) make it look. In order to cover the CF universe with the bird's-eye view that we've got her... (more)

One of the most exciting times for a publishing company occurs when it's launching a new publication. Here at SYS-CON Media, we're going through that time right now as we introduce our newest publication, MX Developer's Journal. MXDJ will be covering the full range of Macromedia'... (more)

I'm proud to report that SYS-CON.com went live with the final release of CFMX 6.1 on its launch date, and we're still up and running, with flying colors. We've participated in the beta program, as I've written about in these pages before, and have had several builds running on ou... (more)

Many folks on the CFDJ editorial team (myself included) have been observing and participating in the beta process for Red Sky since day one, and now the release is finally here. I'm proud to present what we've put together, along with Macromedia's help, to cover the first batch o... (more)

No, that's not a misprint, and I haven't lost my mind quite yet. (Some friends might tell you differently, as might the leprechaun in my closet, but we'll save that for a future editorial.) Red Sky is the code name for the next ColdFusion MX release - a FREE (one of the greatest ... (more)

Another month in the world of CF has passed, and as always, it's certainly not been a dull one. This month's editorial will be devoted to a handful of important CFDJ housekeeping items before you turn the page to get into the technical meat. The 3rd Annual CFDJ Readers' Choice Aw... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio interviews Todd Olson of Borland about its Together Solutions business unit. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

One of the topics that comes up most often when talking with CF developers about ColdFusion is performance. Recently, I assisted two CF developer friends with some site speed problems that they were having. One of them is a beginner, a developer who couldn't understand why his si... (more)

If you're at all like me (in which case, let me say "good luck to you!"), you spend a decent amount of your developer week traipsing around Macromedia's Web site. They've got an enormous wealth of information on there for those of us using CF, Flash, Dreamweaver, and the rest of ... (more)