Google is experimenting with some very cool options for searching. First off, they have show new view: keywords that display additional ways to view / filter search results:

The financial and government sectors drove plenty of the work performed in preparing LiveCycle ES for its debut in the enterprise market.

ColdFusion’s latest version emerges for the first time under the Adobe brand name; it’s changed a lot since its early dot-com days of doing database calls for HTML.

So I’ve been ranting and raving about how we need to make this the year everyone knows about ColdFusion.

Well, I am very happy to say that Yahoo has just updated their Search SDK, and guess what language makes a brand new appearance??.

Yep – that’s right. COLDFUSION! Sorry to "yell" but I’m just that happy about it. The SDK includes both a simple search example and my ColdFusion Yahoo package.

There are multiple methods of debugging applications, including the very cool FusionDebug, log files, ServiceCapture, and the debugging rolled into Flex Builder 2 itself.

A user asked me if it was possible to backup and restore a MySQL database from ColdFusion.

A coworker asked me this so I thought I’d whip up a quick example.

I was working on a Flex project when I hit a brick wall. I had a very simple form.

I work in the financial industry as a developer and not that the financial industry has any greater implementation of XML than any other, but web applications that utilize back office processing for loan applications, or new account opening processes, or retail internet banking applications all to some extent make calls to a host. Many times it’s a DB2 database, and many times some other process that returns account information or validation information in xml format.

At one point or another, whether it’s an enterprise level website, or one of your own, you’re going to have the burning desire to see how you can take advantage of what XML can do for your applications.

ColdFusion doesn’t seem to get the respect it deserves amongst the dedicated Java or .NET or even PHP development circles, but having worked in all of those environments, I’d like to state for the record, that completing a large scale development project AHEAD of schedule, keeping your Business Managers and Projects Managers happy, and let’s not forget the most important of all…

Fusion Authority has published an interesting editorial by Hal Helms, scheduled for inclusion in FAQU 3.

Chalk this up to the “I can’t believe you never saw this before” file.

I’ve seen a few comments about the cost of CFUNITED and the earlybird closing date. In the past, it’s not been something I’ve paid much attention to because I’ve always attended as a speaker and always gotten all my material in on time so TeraTech comps the fee and the hotel. If you don’t get your act together as a speaker, they still comp the conference but you pay for your hotel!

So – in case folks are curious – I now have both a dishwasher and the Internet back at my house. I feel like I’ve returned to the modern world. (Yes, I’m spoiled.)

This should be an eye opener to many. In September Mitre reported that web application vulnerabilities are claiming the top three spots on their CVE request list, beating out Buffer Overflows.

Once again Adobe is using the Labs site to release new software in development – this time a ColdFusion toolkit that integrates with WebSphere Portal Server.

Unlocking the CF Server Black Box

I was planning a simple tutorial on how to create an RSS feed. This would be a very simple and direct “Do This”, and not “Here are the ten thousand versions of RSS” type of article, but Pete beat me to it.

Over the past few days I’ve had multiple people ask me the same question – and that means one thing to me… blog post!

New Atlanta, recently released Beta 1 of version 7 of thier BlueDragon CFML application server.

In my last article about ColdFusion, I asked developers to tell me why that development platform still mattered in the age of LAMP, Ruby on Rails, and Ajax.