Tim Buntel

On the one hand DHTML — the combination of HTML, stylesheets and JavaScript — has given us many new options to create low-bandwidth effects to enhance Web pages. And on the other ColdFusion has given us the power to bring database contents to the Web. What's best for us, then, if we want interactive, site-enhancing effects that are data-driven? A combination of the two, of course! But it's never quite that simple.... This is especially true since DHTML has been implemented differently in Netscape and Microsoft browsers. Pages are often cluttered with a combination of ColdFusion output and lines of script that are hard to debug, modify and reuse. The good news is that ColdFusion's custom tag creation abilities allow us to transform much of the complex client-side code in... (more)

Introducing the ColdFusion Enterprise Manager

Wouldn't it be nice to get all the high-availability and scalability benefits of a cluster of multiple servers without the need to purchase multiple machines? How about being able to manage a number of isolated, performance tuned applications on one piece of hardware instead of taking up many machines in your server room? ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition introduces the new Enterprise Ma... (more)

Introducing the ColdFusion Enterprise Manager

Wouldn't it be nice to get all the high-availability and scalability benefits of a cluster of multiple servers without the need to purchase multiple machines? How about being able to manage a number of isolated, performance tuned applications on one piece of hardware instead of taking up many machines in your server room? ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition introduces the new Enterprise Ma... (more)

CFMX 7: "This Is the Release That Will Make You a Hero Again," Says Macromedia's Tim Buntel

CFMX 7 New Features In this exclusive "sneak preview" from the new monthly CFMX 7 column in SYS-CON Media's ColdFusion Developer's Journal written by the development and QA engineers who actually built the new release,  Macromedia's Tim Buntel writes:    I get excited every time we release a new version of ColdFu... (more)

Not Your Father's Charting

Since charting was first added to ColdFusion back in version 5, it has consistently provided a lot of customer feedback - both positive and negative. We listened to all of the comments and studied the long enhancement list. Developers are sure to be pleased with the number of charting wishes that have been fulfilled in ColdFusion MX 7. Charting isn't a new feature, but we've definitely g... (more)