Tim Buntel

The ColdFusion Administrator is an extremely powerful and easy-to-use Web-based interface for managing your ColdFusion environment. It provides scores of pages to configure data sources, server settings, Web services, logging and debugging, and more. Pretty much any aspect of yo... (more)

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 t... (more)

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 t... (more)

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 cha... (more)

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 ever! Wait till you see what y... (more)

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: (more)

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. M... (more)

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, i... (more)