The wait is coming to an end. We are working feverishly to get the open source version of BlueDragon into the wild on the 3rd of May 2008 at cf.Objective(), when Vince presents his BOF. Vince will illustrate the first public open source version of BlueDragon. This...

Bolling Technology has announced that the Cordish Company is the first major client for its new online task management software product, Task Portfolio. Invented by owner and Baltimore native Raynard T. Bolling, Task Portfolio is an enterprise level, web-based t...

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools--including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components--make it eas...

PaperThin, Inc. announced that four customers have recently gone live on CommonSpot Version 5.0, including: LeSea Broadcasting, Ping Identity, Tulane University, and Tuthill Corporation. In addition, 30 customers are currently implementing the new solution which i...

'AIR Beta 3 is an exciting release that takes us one step closer to AIR 1.0,' writes Platform Evangelist Kevin Hoyt in a recent commentary on eight changes from AIR Beta 2. 'Unlike the myriad of changes introduced in the move from AIR Beta 1 to AIR Beta 2,' Hoyt a...

Lyris, Inc. announced that its Hot Banana Web content management solution (CMS) was ranked highest in overall ease of use by The 2007 Gilbane Group Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience. The survey results ranked Hot Banana highest in overall ease ...

Lyris announced the availability of Hot Banana Version 5.7, the latest update to its award-winning Web content management solution and core application within the company's Lyris HQ integrated marketing platform. Version 5.7 of the Hot Banana application provides ...

Lynda.com, a self-paced digital media and design training, introduced ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics. ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics demonstrates how to utilize ColdFusion 8 to its full potential, from setting up a project to using ColdFusion Components and sessio...

Hot Banana, the Web Content Management Solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace. The two-way integration between Hot Banana's Web content management solution and Salesforce means that both sales and marketing ge...

'Our 'pals' at SYS-CON have done it again. Just when I thought they had displayed the utmost in immaturity and unprofessionalism, they manage to make even bigger fools of themselves. And no, I am not going to link to specific posts or pages, and I ask that comment...

As I'm now officially on the Flex Builder team, I wanted to take a moment to make sure everybody knows where to go for ColdFusion help. Thanks to all of you who had kind words and good wishes for me at MAX last week. While I'm focused now on making Flex Builder ev...

'The biggest problem here is that it looks bad for ColdFusion. The first print magazine dedicated to it has left the building,' says Michael Dinowitz in his blog about the Adobe decision to kill CFDJ. 'The very fact that they're moving the magazine from ColdFusion...

FuseTalk, created in 1999 by developers Jason Clark and Dominic Plouffe, has released the latest version of its flagship Internet forum and weblogging software for corporate, government and educational organizations. Version 3.1 performs extremely well on ColdFus...

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their hosting of Jumpstart?s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder that will allow participants to find reading events being held in their communities on the record-breaking day, September 20.

SYS-CON Media announced today its plans to relaunch CFDJ - ColdFusion Developer's Journal as Silverlight Developer's Journal. The premier issue of SLDJ will be debuted at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place September 23-26, ...

CFDJ was launched 10 years ago as a custom developer magazine with the direct support of Allaire Corporation. This support continued after the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia. After ColdFusion became part of the Adobe product line Adobe recently decided to di...

Recognizing that a Web site's content and core design play a critical role in search engine optimization, seven companies recently chose to power their Web sites with Hot Banana (www.hotbanana.com), the SEO-friendly Web content management solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey.

Hot Banana, the Web content management solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, has added five new channel partners to its reseller program. In signing with Hot Banana, all cited the need for a leading-edge Web content management system that is feature-rich, flexible and marketing-friendly.

ColdFusion Developer Journal's Simon Horwith expressed intense enthusiasm for ColdFusion 8 in a recent interview, but this interview was hardly the only story published by SYS-CON Media recently in the runup to one of the major Adobe announcements in recent memory. Here's the recap...

ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor lets developers swiftly identify bottlenecks and tune the server for better performance. 'The server monitoring capabilities in ColdFusion 8 are outstanding, offering granular-level access to identify slow requests and terminate runaway...

With the release of Adobe's ColdFusion 8 -and today's general availability release- SYS-CON.TV's Roger Strukhoff sat down with ColdFusion Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith for an exclusive interview from SYS-CON's TV studios overlooking Times Squar...

Customers of all sizes have actively participated in the ColdFusion public beta and found the solution offers many compelling reasons to upgrade. 'ColdFusion 8 delivers several enhancements that boost day-to-day productivity,' said Brian Rinaldi, ColdFusion Deve...

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, announces a new white paper from The Gilbane Group that explains how marketers benefit from utilizing a Web CMS-driven eMarketing platform to deliver tangible ROI on marketing investments.

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their Spring Server Spectacular. The Spring Server Spectacular is an opportunity for the company to offer top-of-the-line dedicated servers at a discounted cost to encourage customers to expand their serv...

cf.Objective() has released a Manager's Guide in PDF format for those managers who are not yet sure that they should send their developers to cf.Objective().

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the Adobe Creative Suite 3 product line, an offering of tightly integrated design and development tools for every creative workflow. Adobe?s new Creative Suite 3 line-up unites the best of Adobe and Macromedia product inn...

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, today announced that it has launched Version 5.5, which takes Web CMS to the next level by integrating Web site optimization and marketing automation features. The com...

After nearly a year in development, CFEclipse 1.3 has finally been released! It can be downloaded using Eclipse's Update Software feature, following the instructions in the Download page.

Hot Banana Software, Inc., has announced that they have delivered a new intranet project to the European headquarters of Ingersoll Rand - helping the company to welcome new personnel through a customized intranet site.

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a provider of Web content management for marketing, has announced that it has won 20 new clients and achieved a number of key operational milestones since August, when J.L. Halsey acquired the company.

Hot Banana Software Inc., a provider of Web content management software for marketing and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey, has entered into a channel partner agreement with the Bokka Group of Denver, Colorado.

Hot Banana Software, a provider of Web content management software for marketing and a wholly owned subsidiary of J.L. Halsey, introduced a multilingual content management plug-in that automates the process of translating and publishing Web site content into multiple languages.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the public beta of Adobe® Digital Editions, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing. With native support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as well as an XH...

Intergral announces the immediate release of FusionReactor 2.0. FusionReactor is an add-on to Adobe's ColdFusion MX server as well as all other popular J2EE servers such as JBoss and Tomcat. FusionReactor helps to increase application availability and reduce res...

PaperThin, Inc., a leading Web publishing and content management software vendor, today announced that The International Broadcasting Bureau, an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government, recently implemented CommonSpot for its ...

The 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar will delve deep into the central workings of Flex so that the seminar delegates can integrate this timely new technology into their applications, creating powerful interactive content. And CFDJ Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith ...

FusionReactor is a must for administrators and hosting companies who need to monitor their systems and recognize and act upon issues before they present critical danger to their runtime environments, the company says.

The ColdFusion team also has a few exciting updates to share with developers. Adobe has created a deep level of integration and productivity tools for Flex and ColdFusion making it easy for ColdFusion developers to get started and become productive building Flex ...

'Others have already commented on Adobe.com's new look,' writes Ben Forta in his latest blog. 'It's clean,' he continues, 'The menus are intuitive. Downloads are all listed in one place. Shortcut URLs. Products listed on the homepage is great. And there's more...'

CFDBlogger features free setup and a low monthly fee to host blogs. Features such as image uploading, trackbacks, RSS feeds and WYSIWYG editor are included with a CFDBlogger account. 'We are pleased to offer this outstanding blog service,' said Jason Egan, Vice P...