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ColdFusion MX 7 hits the streets

Macromedia have updated their popular solution for building and deploying Web applications and Web services. Read more »

Macromedia readies ColdFusion update

Macromedia plans to wade into the growing electronic forms market with the next version of its ColdFusion Web application server. Read more »

AusTender Web site catches cold

The federal government's procurement Web site greeted users with an unusual message this morning: "The evaluation license for this copy of Macromedia ColdFusion has expired." Read more »

It's Adobe's game to lose, CEO says

Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google. Read more »

PayPal launches developer Integration Center

PayPal focuses on integration with the launch of new resources for developers. Read more »

Codefest looks to the future of Web development

If improving your Web development skills is high on your agenda for 2005, you may want to join the hordes of Web developers from Australia and overseas preparing to descend in Sydney for the annual MXDU conference. Read more »

Macromedia's Renaissance man

Kevin Lynch claims that when it comes to interactivity, Web application design is still in the Dark Ages - but there are innovations coming through which promise to drag web development into the 21st century. Read more »

Features (46)

Web services with ColdFusion

ColdFusion MX is Macromedia's reinvention of its ColdFusion application server. Check out some of the new features from Builder.com. Read more »

Introduction to the Mach-II application framework

Explore the power and flexibility of Mach-II--the first object-oriented application development framework built from the ground up specifically for ColdFusion MX. Read more »

Getting to know ColdFusion 8

In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »

Review: Macromedia's ColdFusion MX 7.0

The new release of ColdFusion looks solid and brings a massive set of new capabilities to the table. Is it worth the upgrade? Find out in our review. Read more »

Lock up in ColdFusion

Simultaneously handling multiple execution threads offers much higher performance but make sure you properly lock reads and writes to shared variables in ColdFusion MX. A look at the process. Read more »

Ask the MX expert: Create a login in ColdFusion

Robin Hilliard, our resident Macromedia MX expert shows one Builder AU reader how to create a session login screen in ColdFusion MX. Read more »

Making ColdFusion thread-safe with cflock

ColdFusion supports multithreaded apps, but you need to understand how to use the cflock tag to protect your data from race conditions that might corrupt the data. We'll show you how to use this powerful yet simple tag. Read more »

The benefits of polymorphism with ColdFusion Components

Polymorphism is an important concept for object-oriented programming. ColdFusion Components (CFCs) bring this high-level programming concept to the ColdFusion MX application development environment. Read more »

Randomise your RSS feeds with ColdFusion

Learn some neat things you can do with RSS, including how you can use randomisation code to show a random selection of news stories from a random sampling of RSS feeds. Read more »

Use the power of ColdFusion's cfmail

Integrating e-mail into a Web application is easy with the powerful features available in ColdFusion MX 6.1 and the tag. Use this code to make this capability a reality in your next app. Read more »

Blog (6)

Railo to go open source with JBoss

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Railo have announced they will be open sourcing their alternative engine for the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). Read more »

Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »

Adobe MAX conference: Sneak Peaks, Sound Treats

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- To close MAX 2006 Adobe gave delegates at the conference a sneak peek at some upcoming technologies and products. Read more »

Competition: Send me to WebDU

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- We have five passes to give away to the upcoming webDU conference in March, worth $800 each. Read more »

Adobe Developer Week

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Adobe recently ran a series of online conferences via Breeze under the banner of Adobe Developer Week. There was a great and diverse range of topics on offer; including Flex, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Apollo, Model Glue, RIAs, Ajax, ActionScipt 3 and security. Read more »

Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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