ColdFusion Education Initiative: New Web Application Development curriculum from Adobe

[Update: The curriculum is ready to be adopted. We already have various colleges/universities adopting it. You also stand a chance to win an iPad from Adobe if you can help ensure your local college/university adopts this new curriculum. Even something as simple as a contact in the local college/university can be a great start.] We have made significant progress from the time we announced the education initiative for ColdFusion. A full-fledged curriculum titled Introduction to Web Development is being developed […]

ColdFusion Summit: Suggest and vote for the topics that you would like to see

Before I get to this topic, I would like to thank Tim Cunningham, Dan Wilson, Jason Dean for volunteering to be a part of the content committee of the ColdFusion Summit. From the Adobe side, we have Ray Camden, Hemant Khandelwal, Kishore Balakrishnan and I on the content committee for the summit.   Tim Cunningham has put to get together a Trello board where you can vote, comment and suggest topics for the ColdFusion Summit. The Trello Board will be […]

Adobe ColdFusion Summit: Registration Now Open

As many of know, Adobe ColdFusion Summit is happening in October this year on the 24th and 25th at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino at Las Vegas.   We are happy to announce that the registration for the conference is now open at the conference site.

Adobe ColdFusion Webcast: Evolutions of ColdFusion and Application Predictions for 2013

Join Carahsoft and Adobe to hear from Al Hilwa, IDC Research Director for Application Development, as he provides an overview of the current state of developer ecosystems, the application development landscape, and present highlights of a recently published Adobe whitepaper which showcases interesting case studies of its use. In addition to a discussion of current application development trends, this webcast will present IDC’s application development predictions for 2013 and a synopsis of the evolution of ColdFusion including highlights of the […]

ColdFusion – Clarification to David Wadhwani’s comment

David’s comment on the TechCrunch article about Enterprise developers and backend tools is not targeted at ColdFusion, but towards other products that Adobe announced in 2011.  There has been no reduction in investments in ColdFusion over last few years. We see exciting opportunities driving the future of ColdFusion and we will continue to make investments that the opportunities demand or need.     

IDC Whitepaper on Adobe ColdFusion – Turning up the heat with ColdFusion

A new whitepaper from IDC on ColdFusion is now available within the ColdFusion Community Portal (Details of the portal here). The whitepaper from the analyst descirbes the value proposition of ColdFusion, powerful capabilities of the platform, future directions and customer case studies.    

Announcing the new ColdFusion Community Portal

  Here’s the all new ColdFusion Community portal launched by Adobe : http://coldfusion.adobe.com The community portal is one centralized access point for information on the latest in ColdFusion. It also provides our partners and consultants to showcase their capabilities and latest innovations with the platform. It is also a User Group hub where ColdFusion developers can find information related to various User Groups and their events. We are pleased to announce the launch of ColdFusion Community portal with the aim […]

ColdFusion Builder Usage Survey

  Here is a survey to understand the usage of ColdFusion Builder as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing ColdFusion applications.   The information gathered here will help Adobe prioritize on areas that need focus or improvement to keep up with the changing needs of ColdFusion developers.   Thanks for your time to respond to this survey.  

JRun End of Sale post April 2013

Adobe JRun will no longer be available for purchase post April 2013. Adobe will continue to fulfill its obligations under existing maintenance contracts through the term of such contracts. ColdFusion 9, however will continue to be under core support from Adobe. Here’s the link to the updated JRun product page and FAQ page on adobe.com.     

Pre-release for ColdFusion Splendor

Here’s some exciting news about ColdFusion Splendor. We will soon have pre-release open for Adobe ColdFusion Splendor, next major version of ColdFusion server and ColdFusion Builder Thunder, next major version of ColdFusion Builder. This time we will have a single pre-release program for both Builder and Server.  If you are interested in being a part of the pre-release, do take this survey linked here. Please realize that participating in this survey does not guarantee a pre-release invite. The plan is […]

ColdFusion 10 on AWS Marketplace

  I am excited to post about the new Amazon EC2 offering on AWS Marketplace for ColdFusion 10. You can now buy ColdFusion AMI (ColdFusion Enterprise Amazon Machine Image) from AWS Marketplace at an hourly based pricing:   Large Instance: $0.15/hr X-Large Instance: $0.30/hr It is available on both Windows 2008 R2 and Ubuntu 12.0.4. You are also entitled to get support from Adobe and all you are required to do is send an email to the Adobe support (CFSup@adobe.com) […]

New CHFs for CF 9 and CF 9.0.1

We now have new CHFs available for ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 9.0.1. This CHFs will address the issues that were present in the previous CHFs. We recomend that you apply this update to your ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 9.0.1 installations. Here are the links to the related techotes for CF 9 and CF 9.0.1. For ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 9.0.2 the updates have been refreshed to fix an issue with the Google Map API and the related technotes can be […]