Simon Horwith

I want to take this opportunity to announce a new service to the development community - "blog-n-play." Blog-n-play is a Web site launched by SYS-CON that allows anyone who'd like, to create his or her own blog - and it's free. Your blog is associated with one of the SYS-CON publications (anyone reading this editorial is most likely suited to creating a CFDJ blog). A unique subdomain of the CFDJ domain ("coldfusionjournal.com" in the case of CFDJ) is created for your blog. In addition to my personal blog at Horwith.com, you can also visit my CFDJ blog at http://simon.coldfusionjournal.com. The blog application is loaded with great features such as a rich text editor for authoring, creating links, skinning your blog, and much more. I recommend it to anyone who has not yet created a blog. It takes two minutes to set up and it's free, so you have nothing to lose. In add... (more)

"Convergence Is Now Coming Alive" Says Jeremy Allaire

ON THE PAST... "Back in 1997 I created a simple application in CF that presented a UI via the very first Web phone (the AT&T PocketNet Phone), and allowed me to turn on and off the lights and coffee maker in my house" ON THE PRESENT... "For the past few years I've spent a great deal of timing working on and thinking about the application of rich media, video, and media distribution technologies" "It's hard to think of a kind of Internet or Web application that ColdFusion couldn't be used for building" "most...institutions - learning institutions, government institutions, religio... (more)

ColdFusion Developer's Journal Special "Frameworks" Focus Issue: SAM

I've been fairly outspoken for quite some time now about the fact that I don't subscribe to any one framework. I've also spent many years refining what's proven to be the best methodology possible for developing ColdFusion applications. I recently promised my boss that I would learn and evaluate several of the popular ColdFusion frameworks. If I couldn't find one that I felt good about recommending as our standard platform for development, I would formally document the methodology that I use for designing and developing applications. After evaluating several popular frameworks a... (more)

DevCon 2002

Another ColdFusion Developers Conference has officially come and gone. All in all, this year's conference, held October 27-30 in Orlando, Florida, was a huge success, both in terms of attendance (well over 2,000) and content. I'll begin with my personal view of the conference and then share some thoughts from CFDJ List members I had a chance to talk with. My first observation was that this year's conference was all about the MX suite - not just ColdFusion but the entire gamut of MX products. Past DevCons were very much more CF-centric: discussing the ColdFusion Server, CFML, CF ... (more)

"Ladies and gentlemen, the sky is not falling"

At the time of this writing, Adobe has recently announced its plan to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock trade worth billions ($3.4 billion was the estimate at the time of the announcement). The ColdFusion development community has been abuzz with speculation about how this will affect the future of CF - including many doomsday prognosticators suffering from "Chicken Little Syndrome." Ladies and gentlemen, the sky is not falling. At the time of this writing, Adobe has 4,000+ personnel and in excess of $1.4 billion in the bank (cash and cash equivalents). Macromedia has 1,400+ pe... (more)