Posts Tagged ‘adobe’

A few months ago, I blogged about my excitement about the role that full script CFCs could have in an MVC stack, particularly with ColdFusion on Wheels. In my excitement to try out the new feature, I had spent much of a Saturday manually converting all of my components into CFScript components in my portal project called Administrivia.

Unfortunately, the CFScript part of ColdFusion isn’t quite where it needs to be yet. Read on to find out why.

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These are exciting times for ColdFusion. We have open source alternatives. Adobe just released their first shot at an official ColdFusion IDE, and they’ve even included Flash Builder in the package for free.

I’ve seen people comment that Adobe needs to promote and advertise ColdFusion more heavily. I think that this is a problem. While they are responsible for advertising and promotion to a degree, we must acknowledge that they’ve invested a lot into creating great tools for us to use and take some of the responsibility into our own hands.

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For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML‘s GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.

Read on for an example of what we did.

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I’ll try my best to promise that this won’t become a Dreamweaver hater’s blog. (I already wrote about some discontents earlier.) But as I’ve been learning about CMSes, there are some things that I wish that Adobe would invest in and improve upon with the Dreamweaver/Contribute combo.

Read on for more of my thoughts.

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Ever since I shelled out money for CS3 and then the upgrade to CS4, I’ve been looking for more opportunities to use it. So I figured that I’d give Dreamweaver CS4 a shot as my ColdFusion development environment for a month or so. The verdict: don’t. Technorati Tags: adobe, chris peters, ColdFusion, crap, cs4, dreamweaver, [...]

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Today, we released ColdFusion in Wheels 0.7. This is a major milestone because we’ve gained some momentum with the project. Even Ben Forta has given us a shout-out, so I’m one giddy nerd right now. Moments like these are why I do the work that I do. I’m hoping the other guys that are working [...]

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I have decided to take the lead role of the ColdFusion on Wheels project. I am developing some business-critical projects on top of the framework, and I personally want to see it flourish. This is a major commitment, so I did need to hesitate for a moment and think about what I was getting into. [...]

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Kudos to Mike Krotschek for giving everyone a kick in the pants and reviving our local Adobe user group. COMMUG has been resurrected as Columbus Digital. The rename was much called for since Macromedia (the MM in COMMUG) is now absorbed into Adobe. If you’re in the Columbus area, I urge you to come to [...]

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I was excited to see that Adobe sped up the CreateObject(“component”) function in ColdFusion 8. Was I finally able to use beans without dramatically slowing down my page loads? The answer is no, but you should continue reading to see how I got to use beans in my ColdFusion project. ColdFusion components suck at beans [...]

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