	Fusion Authority The House of Fusion Technical Magazine	Issue: 8 January 31, 2000 February 6, 2000
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Community: New Location and Doubled Attendance at E-Commerce Conference--Last Call!; JS-Jive: New JavaScript Mailing List
News: ColdFusion Server Release for Unix Delayed Until ColdFusion 4.5.1 Release; Allaire Announces Rapid Expansion of Spectra's Installed Base; inFusion Mail Server Version 1.1 to be Released at Next New York CFUG Meeting; Allaire Sponsors Personalization Summit 2000; Banc of America Analyst Names Allaire a 'Strong Buy'; Allaire: Employment Opportunities Page; Allaire Examines Use of ColdFusion in Colleges
Tech and Tags: What's New in the Tag Gallery; CFX_CyberCash 404 Error; Errors Writing to LDAP Server When Installing CF for Solaris with Advanced Security; Allaire Releases Patch for Spectra 1.0 Remote Access Service Problem
Views: A Wakeup Call (Publisher's Voice); Getting in on the Action: JRun, Java and Spectra

Community

New Location and Doubled Attendance at E-Commerce Conference--Last Call!

The two-day ColdFusion E-Commerce seminar (CFCONF '00) will be held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Rockville, Maryland. The new location holds more people, and it's a good thing! You see, attendance for this conference went from 60 people to 117 in one day (Feb. 5, 2000). And now the conference attendance is up to 177, with a 220 person limit. So all those who want to register, head on over to http://www.teratech.com/cfconf2/ right away!

Updated Conference Press Release

JS-Jive: New JavaScript Mailing List

Steve Reich has created a new JavaScript mailing list for ColdFusion developers, JS-Jive, which focuses on JavaScript and web development issues. Those who wish to sign up should visit http://www.onelist.com/community/JS-Jive.

News

ColdFusion Server Release for Unix Delayed Until ColdFusion 4.5.1 Release

Allaire announced that they will be delaying their ColdFusion Server 4.5.1 for Unix release until the release of ColdFusion 4.5.1 to ensure the quality of the product. Beta releases for ColdFusion 4.5.1 for both Solaris and Linux are now available on the beta site. To get the beta versions or apply to be a beta tester, go to the Allaire beta site.

Fusion Authority appreciates Allaire's care and concern for the quality of its products.

Allaire Announces Rapid Expansion of Spectra's Installed Base

Allaire has announced that over fifty (50) customers have already purchased the new Spectra product, just announced in December 1999. Installations range from major enterprises to pure play sites.

http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=14424&Method=Full

inFusion Mail Server Version 1.1 to be Released at Next New York CFUG Meeting

Look for the official rollout of inFusion Mail Server Version 1.1 at the New York CFUG meeting on Tuesday, February 15. New features of iMS include:

A new version of the CFX_iMSMail tag: This includes support of the addition of a Status field in the INI file that prevents the POST server from processing a newly added POST file prematurely.
A New iMS "Test Suite": This is a set of three test console programs that facilitate the testing of each iMS server (SMTP, POST, POP). (Complete, except for documentation.)

To celebrate this new release, Infusion will be doing a random drawing for a free copy of iMS 1.1. The winner will be announced at the rollout. The copy is unrestricted and can be kept or sold to a third party.

Also, for 30 days after release the price of iMS will be 10% off (Server Bundle only). So, the price for the full server bundle will be $1755, a savings of $195 over the regular price.

For the location and time of the NYCFUG meeting, or for further details of the rollout and the drawing, check the CoolFusion and New York CFUG sites (http://www.coolfusion.com and http://nycfug.org).

Allaire Sponsors Personalization Summit 2000

Allaire Corp. will be a Gold Sponsor of the Personalization Summit 2000 being held April 9-11, 2000 at the Marriott Copley Place, Boston Massachusetts. The Personalization Summit will bring together customers, partners, technology experts and industry leaders for two days of engaging general sessions, informative breakout sessions and an Exhibit Fair featuring the leaders in personalization technology.

http://www.personalization.com/summit/boston/overview.html

Banc of America Analyst Names Allaire a 'Strong Buy'

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Banc of America Securities senior Internet software analyst, Greg Vogel, addressed investors at the 17th Annual Banc of America Securities Technology Conference, highlighting emerging trends in the e-business software space and citing Allaire Corp. as a strong buy. (Banc of America Securities' advisory CRD number 26091.)

Bank of America Press Release

Allaire: Employment Opportunities Page

Looking for a job at Allaire? Check this page for a listing of all positions currently open (and a chance to apply online): http://www.allaire.com/company/employment/apply.cfm?dept_id=0.

Allaire Examines Use of ColdFusion in Colleges

Allaire's website contains an entire section dedicated to the support of the use of ColdFusion by colleges and other bodies of higher education.

http://www.allaire.com/edu/

Tech and Tags

What's New in the Tag Gallery

CF_Simple_Links: ColdFusion Tag to create a links page that does not need a registered data source or extensive ColdFusion knowledge.
FusionDBA: Administer all your ODBC datasource from the Web. Drill down, add, edit records, design tables, generate CF/ASP code off your tables.
Podium v3.0: ColdFusion Mailing List Software.
CF_Bibit: Provides an interface for the Bibit payment service. Supports credit card payments, digital wallets, etc., via Bibit.
RecordMaster: A wizard for ColdFusion Studio that is used to display, list, edit, search and add records to a database.
CFBoards v1.0: A forum that includes unlimited conferences, forums and users. CFBoards supports file attachments, multiple languages, email features, option for requiring posts to be authorized first, announcements and more. Customize your HTML or image sets, or use one of the four included ones. Features include sending messages directly from the forum and showing online status. There are both encrypted and open source versions available!!!
CF_EXTRACTBODY: Custom tag to extract the portions of HTML between the start and end tags.
LogMagic: A complete tool for managing your ColdFusion log files. Highlights include: multi-log action, simple "next n" viewing and searching, quick 'n' dirty log and/or error archiving, clearing, and deleting, error emailing and color-coding, directory browsing, plus clean layout and code.
DHTML Image Rollover Wizard: This wizard simplifies the creation of a menu consisting of up to six images that will change appearance when the mouse is rolled over them. The script generated is cross-browser compatible.
DHTML Slide-In Wizard: This wizard simplifies the process of creating the code to slide a layer on a webpage in any direction you specify. The code produced is cross-browser compatible.
CF_NewsScroll: This custom tag displays a "news ticker" with headlines appearing in the same box one after the other. It employs DHTML and therefore will only work with version 4 (or higher) browsers. It has been tested and seems compatible with both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. News items may be retrieved from a database or hard-coded and may link to a specified URL.
BarcodeGenerator_V2: Faster, slicker version of the CF_BarcodeGenerator software, fully functional download, allows the following: 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, USPS (PostNet), Codabar, Code128.
CF_ZEROKILLER update: DECIMAL POINT BUG FIX. This version now strips any value of all trailing zeros to the right of the decimal point. It will also kill the decimal point if the value is, for example, 5.0.
CF_EXTRACTBODY 1.1: Tag to extract the content between the start and end tags. Corrects a minor evaluation problem.
PowerCalendar: Customizable graphical calendar. Mark and record events and description for a date or multiple date ranges.
OsTECH Editor for ColdFusion: Generates better CF Code than the CF Wizard - allows you to do all your grunt work and testing in one seamless app.
DHTML SlideIn Wizard: This is a cool custom dialog that creates the code to slide an element on a webpage! It support slides in any direction you decide.
Simple Events Calendar: The Simple Events Calendar allows you to create a calendar of events. Each event can optionally be linked to another web page or to a more detailed description of the event. An administrator page can approve and edit all events. Administrators can also receive e-mail when new events are posted, if desired. A user can submit new events for the calendar. Events are for a particular day, and can have a time associated with them. Each event can have up to 256 characters of text to display on the calendar.

CFX_CyberCash 404 Error

Problem: When using Allaire's CFX_CyberCash tag, you get the following error:

: "Location: CCMckDirectLib; Message: The HTTP server has not processed your request. Here is the response status that it returned: 404 File Not Found "

The error is caused by a syntax problem in the omission of a trailing slash on your CCPS_HOST attribute within the tag. Solution: An explanation of this syntax problem and a simple workaround are available at http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=14377&Method=Full .

Errors Writing to LDAP Server When Installing CF for Solaris with Advanced Security

Problem: The Netscape Directory (LDAP) Server that comes with ColdFusion for Solaris is set in a different default directory than current Netscape web servers. When installing the NDS, if you accept the default directory, the NDS will fail to recognize any installed Netscape Server on your system. Instead, it will install its own administrative version (2.0). This creates the problem.

Solution: Uninstall the NDS and reinstall it in the same directory as your current Netscape web server. For more information, see Allaire Article 14295.

Allaire Releases Patch for Spectra 1.0 Remote Access Service Problem

Allaire Security Bulletin (ASB00-04) announces the patch now available for the Allaire Spectra 1.0 Security Authentication System. The Spectra 1.0 Remote Access Service invoke.cfm template normally requires that users must be authenticated in the webtop security context in order to even attempt to use the Remote Access Service. However, without this patch, the user can bypass this.

Within this article, Allaire stresses that it strongly recommends that customers remove all documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials from production servers, as well as taking other precautions outlined within.

Allaire Security Bulletin ASB00-04

Views

A Wakeup Call (Publisher's Voice)

By Michael Dinowitz

We hope that you've enjoyed the Fusion Authority Weekly News Alerts to this point. We try our best to make sure we get a weekly magazine out with all the news, reviews and information that you, the ColdFusion users, want. Unfortunately, there's only so much time in a week. This comes down to the articles that are written on Fusion Authority. Most of them until this point have been written by me, and doing an article a week can be very tiresome. So rather than giving you an article in this issue that is rather weak, I'm going to hold off and give you a better one next week.

But it's more than that. This is a wakeup call to you in the community to say, "We need you!" We can't do this alone. I know you enjoy my articles, and you enjoy hearing what I have to say, but I'm not the only voice. I'm not the only one who knows something. I'm not the only one with a cool idea. We want—we need—other people to come forward and write for us. We need people to write articles, to write reviews, to test products, to do anything that they feel would be useful to the community and to let us publish it. We are a community news site. We are for the community, and we are also by the community. I know it hasn't looked like it so far with me writing most of the articles, but this is the way it should be, the way it was planned to be, the way it has to be.

So if you have anything you want to get published that is of use to the ColdFusion community, anything at all (or almost anything at all), send it to myself, the publisher, or better yet—send it to my wife, Judith, the editor. She's the one responsible for the quality of writing you see on the site, she's the one that reviews the articles, and she's the one you're really going to talk to.

Getting in on the Action: JRun, Java and Spectra

By Judith Dinowitz

With the new technologies being incorporated into ColdFusion, the field has become too big for any one publication to cover completely. While Fusion Authority will be running occasional articles on JRun and Spectra, our focus is, and must remain, the core of ColdFusion.

Take heart, though. Some excellent resources on Spectra and JRun are beginning to spring up on the web. Chief among them are Allaire's new JRun and Spectra Devcenters, areas for the development of JRun and Spectra resources. Several technical articles on both technologies are being developed on a fairly frequent basis. These include case studies (articles spotlighting sites developed with the technologies in question), which are often a valuable help to programmers building their own sites.

Take advantage of these resources. Some of JRun's features will be integrated into ColdFusion by version 5.0, so it's only to your advantage to "learn the ropes" now. And Spectra, of course, is one of the next waves of ColdFusion development. Fusion Authority will do its level best to keep you in touch with new resources in the ColdFusion universe.

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