Simon Horwith

This month, I am pleased to announce that Kevin Kazmierczak is the winner of the contest to develop a polling/survey application. His submission included a simple set-up and script for creating and populating the database (a straight-forward read me file makes installation easy),... (more)

I'm writing this editorial on the exact day that ColdFusion 1.0 was released back in 1995. Looking back over the server's evolution, it's really come a long way from its start as a CGI application (anyone remember DBML?). Though the server has really grown substantially, the thin... (more)

Before describing this month's prize and contest, I would like to thank everyone for their submissions to our first contest (CFDJ vol. 7 issue 3). That contest objective was to modify Ray Camden's blog in any way you choose, and you had to take advantage of at least one new featu... (more)

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 ... (more)

The topic of focus for this month's issue is "architecture." Software architecture is the study and practice of the art of planning and developing applications, and it also happens to be my favorite topic and area of expertise. It is the cornerstone of everything we do, and devel... (more)

At the time of this writing, the submission deadline for last month's contest ("Developer's Challenge #1: Create a Blog, Win ColdFusion MX 7") is still pending, so the winning entry will be announced next month. In the meantime, another month means another contest. . . This mont... (more)

Novice programmers often ask for advice about the best way to learn ColdFusion. Fortunately for them, there is a wealth of curricula, web sites, knowledge bases, books, tutorials, and other materials to help a budding young developer blossom into a decent ColdFusion developer. W... (more)

This is the first instalment of a new column that is designed to challenge developers, show-off their solutions, and give away some cool prizes in the process. In addition to describing the challenge as well as the winning entry from the submissions to the last month, each month... (more)

It's finally here! ColdFusion MX 7 was released about an hour prior to this writing. This release is the most customer driven release of ColdFusion to date - new features for delivering printable content in the form of portable (FlashPaper or PDF) documents or reports, an event g... (more)

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 publ... (more)

CFMX 7 New Features ColdFusion Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Simon Horwith writes: It's finally here! ColdFusion MX 7 was released about an hour prior to this writing. This release is the most customer driven release of ColdFusion to date - new features for delivering print... (more)

Recently, a client approached me about adding a new requirement to their software - a hybrid content-management application written in ColdFusion, Java, and Flash. The desired new requirement was the ability to create dynamic Gantt charts on various pages in the Web application. ... (more)

For this month's installment, I thought I'd return the Community column to its original roots ("Tales From the List") and focus on a recent thread in the CFDJ List. Brian Simpson wrote to the List posing the following problem: "How do I round to the nearest 'x'?" Specifically, Br... (more)

For several months I've been promising there would be changes in CFDJ in the New Year. Change in the form of offering deep-focused issues. Change in the form of new regular and semi-regular columns. Well, the time has finally come. This month we are focusing on presenting data. A... (more)

I'll be honest - I wasn't terribly thrilled with the amount of coverage given to the new features in Blackstone. Don't get me wrong, between a full-day of hands-on sessions, sneak peeks, a couple of features shown off in the keynotes, and a "Birds of a Feather" one evening, there... (more)

As I write this, I am beginning to box up my belongings and prepare for another move across the Atlantic. I've accepted the position of CIO at AboutWeb - a staff augmentation and software development company based out of Washington, DC. I'm moving back into one of the richest Col... (more)

I've just returned to London from MAX 2004...what a conference! The announcement of the availability of Flex 1.5; cool demos of Blackstone, Flex, Flash on mobile devices; and a sneak peek at what's in Flash 8 were among the more notable announcements and content at this year's co... (more)

At MAX I had the pleasure of sitting around a private table with several members of the Blackstone Development Team to talk about the new features, the development community, and future ColdFusion releases after Blackstone. With so many people in the room who were all passionate a... (more)

Beginning with the release of ColdFusion MX, the ColdFusion Application Server now runs on top of an underlying Java engine. Java, as we all know, is an object-oriented language. However, the question of whether CFML is an object-oriented language has been under debate since the ... (more)

Several conferences have been officially announced, most notably: MX Europe 2005 (www.mxeurope.org): Formerly known as "CF-Europe" the conference now spans three days and includes Macromedia client and server technology session topics. It is the largest conference for Macromedia ... (more)