Tim Buntel

WDDX exists to allow us to share data. With it your ColdFusion application can "talk" to someone else's Perl script, and it in turn can talk to someone else's Microsoft Word document. Quite a powerful concept, but I have to admit I haven't had a lot of opportunities to use it. Much of the focus on WDDX has centered on syndication. "Web syndication is the idea that the content and commerce assets of a corporate Web site can be exposed as services and data to other Web sites, allowing sites to syndicate their value to other Web sites" [ Wddx.org]. Now don't get me wrong. This is a very appealing idea and certainly could revolutionize many business relationships. Unfortunately, most of my clients are still trying to figure out how to best use their own data themselves, never mind sharing it with others! Accordingly, I'd like to take a moment to look into how WDDX can be... (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 Manager, which will do those things and more. It makes load balancing, application isolation, and deployment management as easy as creating a datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator. In this ar... (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 ColdFusion.  I usually hit the road and talk about the release to customers at their companies, user group events, and conferences.  I start the conversation by saying, "This is the best ColdFusion ev... (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 given it an "extreme makeover" for this release! Charts with Style Did you know that there are more than 45 attributes used to define charts with CFCHART and its subtags? This makes for messy code a... (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 Manager, which will do those things and more. It makes load balancing, application isolation, and deployment management as easy as creating a datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator. In this ar... (more)