Adobe/ColdFusion News Brief: December 9, 2006

Dec 09, 2006

by Ryan Hartwich

Adobe releases ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

To date Adobe has released 2 point releases to ColdFusion 7. Both of these releases include feature enhancements and bug fixes. This week Adobe has released a cumulative hot fix for the newest 7.0.2 release. Please note, they do not recommend installing this hot fix unless you are experiencing one or more of the 14 items fixed.

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

ColdFusion Related Conference Pricing Announced

There are four conferences in the next six months that may appeal to ColdFusion developers. Two, CFUnited-07 and CFObjective are geared almost exclusively towards CF developers.

CFUnited-07, June 27th-30th, Washington DC – premier ColdFusion conference, 1-4 days, $100+, $750-1050
CFUNITED 2007
cf.Objective(), May 3-6, Minneapolis, MN – object-oriented programming, enterprise ColdFusion development, 2-3 days, $375-475
cf.Objective() 2007 Registration Page

The Frameworks and 360Flex conferences focus on building framework-heavy and Flex-centric applications and may not appeal to the average CF developer as much.

Frameworks Conference, February 1-2, Washington DC – 2 days, $400-500
Frameworks Conference
360Flex, March 5-7, San Jose, CA – Flex-centric, 2+ days, $100
360Flex

ColdFusion Technical Journal Published

Fusion Authority publishes 120-page Fusion Authority Quarterly magazine (issue 2) with over a dozen articles. Available for purchase in print with additional PDF version available.
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update

Teratech To Host Fusebox Framework

Teratech and the original creators of the Fusebox framework have announced plans to transfer the hosting and major support responsibilities of the Fusebox framework to Teratech.
TeraTech to run Fusebox

New Adobe Products

Adobe Releases Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8 Family of Products
Acrobat Product Family Page
Download the Adobe Reader 8

Adobe releases Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze)
Offered as both an inexpensive hosted solution and a more complete Professional edition:
Acrobat Connect

New tools on Adobe Labs

Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine

Adobe is donating their Actionscript Virtual Machine which will replace the SpiderMonkey Javascript engine (around Firefox 4 release in 2008) with an open source version (Tamarin) of the ECMAscript based engine that Adobe uses inside of Flash Player 9.
Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine
Tamarin Project

Adobe Purchases InterAKT

Adobe is now offering "Kollection", composed of MX Kollection Pro, KTML, CSS Menus and XML Import Export. A number products that were previously sold by InterAKT are being integrated into future Adobe upgrades (Dreamweaver, etc.). A few of their tools will no longer be sold, however.
InterAKT: All Our Base is Belong to Adobe (Alexandru's Blog)

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