Simon Horwith is the CIO at AboutWeb, LLC, a Washington, DC based company specializing in staff augmentation, consulting, and training. Simon is a Macromedia Certified Master Instructor and is a member of Team Macromedia. He has been using ColdFusion since version 1.5 and specializes in ColdFusion application architecture, including architecting applications that integrate with Java, Flash, Flex, and a myriad of other technologies. In addition to presenting at CFUGs and conferences around the world, he has also been a contributing author of several books and technical papers.
It's official - the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia has been finalized and
our beloved ColdFusion has a new home. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all.
There was a lot of talk within the community about how this may adversely
effect the server, but talk is cheap and, in this case, also very premature.
In order to give the community a breath of relief and put a stop to much of
the hypothesizing, I interviewed Dave Mendels, senior vice president of
Adobe's new Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit, about Adobe's
plans for the ColdFusion Application Server. Rest assured, Col... (more)
The thread I've chosen to examine this month is all about driving ColdFusion
sites with Microsoft Access databases. Very often I hear developers state
that "Access is evil," or that you'd have to be crazy to use Access on the
back end of a Web application, but are these generalized statements
warranted? The CFDJList discussion began with a post by Chelsey Gourgaud, who
wrote asking wheth... (more)
There has been a growing trend in list discussions about Flash. This month,
the list saw threads centered around the use of Flash as an alternative to
writing DHTML Menus (hopefully cross-browser compatible), Flash on SSL, and
resources for learning Flash - to name a few.
As I mentioned in last month's DevCon summary (CFDJ, Vol. 4, issue 12), Flash
MX/ColdFusion MX integration was a very ... (more)
Despite what the title of this month's article implies, this installment of
Tales From the List is not about a CFDJ-List thread regarding the meaning of
life. It's about something much more important: metadata.
Metadata, in a nutshell, is information about information. It's how data is
described, categorized, and conceptualized, and is also commonly used to show
a relationship between dif... (more)
Simon Horwith is the CIO at AboutWeb, LLC, a Washington, DC based company specializing in staff augmentation, consulting, and training. Simon is a Macromedia Certified Master Instructor and is a member of Team Macromedia. He has been using ColdFusion since version 1.5 and specializes in ColdFusion application architecture, including architecting applications that integrate with Java, Flash, Flex, and a myriad of other technologies. In addition to presenting at CFUGs and conferences around the world, he has also been a contributing author of several books and technical papers.
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