Phillip D. Chonigman

CF Advisor (P.C.) - We'd like to find out what's going on with ColdFusion these days. You guys released version 4.5 just launching right now … Berrey - That's right, at today's session [of the 1st Annual Allaire Developer Conference] we announced ColdFusion 4.5 and in this release we've really had three focuses. The first and really the most important is that we've made ColdFusion native on UNIX and we've released a version for Linux. So this is really one of the first proven web application servers that is now going to be available on the Linux platform. The second thing we've done is we've really focused on the fundamentals. We've taken the core things in ColdFusion and we've made them stronger, we've made them more reliable, and we've added functionality, productivity, scalability, integration, and security. The third focus for the release is really supporting th... (more)

CF Advisor Interviews Allaire Corp.'s Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey

In the second installment of an exclusive two-part CF Advisor interview, Allaire's Vice President of Technology Strategy, Jeremy Allaire, joined Product Marketing Director Adam Berrey in mapping out Allaire's multiple programming language strategies for ColdFusion, Spectra, WDDX, Java, and XTML. We concluded Part I of our interview at the 1st Annual Allaire Developers Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, by asking Adam Berrey, what he thought were the coolest features for developers in the latest release of ColdFusion - Version 4.5. When Jeremy Allaire joined the discussion, CF ... (more)

Do you object?

When articles come in so nicely paired, an editor has little need for a thinking cap. In this issue, Teo Graca begins his elucidation of the object orientation lying at the heart of CF by reminding us of the four mantras of OOP, the first of which is "Encapsulation." Gary Krajci, meanwhile, submits an article on a custom tag which he titles " -- A Custom Tag That Demonstrates Encapsulation," nicely illustrating one of Teo's themes. Charles Arehart's article tackles a theme orthogonal to the creation of custom tags: how to master the tags CF already comes with. His s... (more)