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Top Companies Using ColdFusion MX

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:39:00 -0600

At various conferences I've heard from customers that are trying to make the case for using or continuing to use ColdFusion when pitching ideas to their decision makers or executives. One the most frequent requests has been for Adobe (or Macromedia ...

Tales told by Simon Brooks

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:59:00 -0600

Simon Brooks, a former coworker of mine at Allaire and Macromedia, has become an innovative storyteller and launched the business DiamondScree. Simon's a very nice guy with a great imagination. Check out his website: Simon began spinning yarn...

Cringley Speculates About Apple's Plans to Win the OS and Application Markets

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:29:00 -0600

In this week's edition of I, Cringely, Bob Cringely reflects on Microsoft's struggle to maintain dominance in the OS and applications market while the project schedule for Vista withers on the vine. Furthermore, Bob speculates that for Apple to rema...

Discovering the Adobe Bloggers

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:01:00 -0600

My view of the web technology world has been almost exclusively through the lens of two blog aggregators, MXNA and Full As A Goog. To my surprise, several new faces have turned up on MXNA today... native bloggers from Adobe itself. I didn't even k...

Hello Adobe!

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:56:00 -0600

Since the announcement Thursday evening, the blogosphere has been saturated with speculations, musings, tributes, and congratulations about the Adobe merger with Macromedia. As a former Macromedia (and Allaire) employee, I'm personally excited that ...

Got Work? Solve ColdFusion Problems for Fun and Money

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:31:00 -0600

For those seeking employment in the Eastern Massachusetts area, there is a job opening for an Escalation Coldfusion Product Support Engineer, described as: We are looking for a member of the ColdFusion Technical Support team to function as a Tier ...

Around My Cube

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:39:00 -0600

Office snapshots on Flickr: My Geekdom Overfloweth #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !...

[steven@macromedia /work]$ shutdown -h +360 'Going on sabbatical. Please log off'

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:34:00 -0600

Like many others at Macromedia, its my turn for a long sabbatical, although I've been eligible for over a year. For the next six weeks, until September 12th, I'll be out of the office. I suspect that this is the first and the last time I'll be able ...

Video Archive of ColdFusion Birthday Party with Founders Panel Discussion

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:39:00 -0600

Watch the video of Macromedia's ColdFusion birthday party event held in the Newton, MA office yesterday, July 13 2005. The founders of ColdFusion, which was almost known as Prometheus or Horizon, recant the early days of Allaire Corporation.

I, CRINGELY: What does Adobe's purchase of Macromedia mean? Bob explains

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:36:00 -0600

The title and topic of this week's I CRINGELY column are as follows: "A Flash in the Pan" This message is being sent to inform you that Robert X. Cringely's latest column is now available online What does Adobe's purchase of Macromedia me...

ColdFusion highlighted in Macromedia Fourth Quarter Results

Tue, 03 May 2005 16:57:00 -0600

Betsey Nelson, CFO of Macromedia, noted in the Breezo of today's Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2005: Server products posted nice strong results this quarter with major strategic wins in both Flex and ColdFusion... I'm still listening, so there m...

Macromedia: Java, ColdFusion Developers Safe

Tue, 03 May 2005 15:08:00 -0600

On April 21, Ben Forta blogged about an article in SD Times where Kevin Lynch was quoted about ColdFusion. I couldn't find that article online then, but today I noticed it's a headline in the May 1st online edition of SD Times: Macromedia: Java...

ColdFusion Live! A CFUNITED show with Jeff Peters and Simon Horwith

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:29:00 -0600

This is the first in a weekly series of lunchtime events where presenters at the upcoming CFUNITED ColdFusion conference will preview their talks here at the Online Coldfusion Meetup Group in cooperation with the Maryland ColdFusi...

Podcatch.com - A directory of cool stuff for the podcasting community

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:14:00 -0600

Blogging's Founding Father, Dave Winer, who first envisioned podcasting, has launched a new site tonight, Podcatch to act as a respository of knowledge for the podcasting community. I commented on his initial post about my intentions to start podc...

Macromedia Flex for Web Application Developers - A New Course

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:37:00 -0600

This week I've completed a new Macromedia course, Flex for Web Application Developers, recently renamed to indicate the course's appropriateness for programmers from all web application backgrounds, rather than just ColdFusion. The course is design... [More]