ColdFusion - CFManiacs in DC
I've recently attended Webmaniacs (cfmaniacs) in Washington, DC. I attended this conference to get some insight of what is new to ColdFusion 8. Below is my notes from this conference.
Not much from the keynote other than Longtime evangalist Ben Forta gave it (his blog entry). Other than if we want to start using flex and didn't want to pay for the LifeCycle product there is a free version called "Blaze DS" which is only missing the data syncing part of the LifeCycle product.
I also learned that Adobe has hired (or I guess its been a while) a new ColdFusion Evangalist, since Ben Forta is more of a Web Evangalist now. His name is Adam Lehman, and here is his blog.
So what is new in CF8.
- On Demand Presentations which creates a flash player of your presentation.
- Server Monitoring (more then CFSTAT). This is a bunch of ColdFusion pages within the ColdFusion Administrator that display lots of information about the server.
- New Interactive Debugger within Eclipse
- Atleast 4x Faster just by installing CF8
- cfc creation is 23x faster
- cfparam is 31x faster
- Lots of new tags
- CFZip
- Lots of FileFunctions
- New action for CFLOOP --> FILE, lets you loop over a BIG file without reading it all into the memory
- cfreport added new features.
- css into cfreport
- output to HTML
-cfthread
- gives ability to asyncronous run a coldfusion file (long running process) or multi-thread processes
- function within CFC - onMissingMethod()
- cfdbInfo - retrieves all types of information from the database including its structure
- cfimage
- includes new data type "image"
- lots of features
- open source project imageutils.com for wrapping effects around the imaging features
- CAPTCHA
- create an image to help stop BOTS from filling out forms
-PDF Changes
- cfdocument improved
- cfpdf to manage/edit/create PDF
- also creates bookmarks and other meta data in PDF
- AJAX tags to make easier programming
-cfgrid
-cfajaxproxy
-cfajaximport tags="cfwindow"
-cfsprydataset
- and more
Not much from the keynote other than Longtime evangalist Ben Forta gave it (his blog entry). Other than if we want to start using flex and didn't want to pay for the LifeCycle product there is a free version called "Blaze DS" which is only missing the data syncing part of the LifeCycle product.
I also learned that Adobe has hired (or I guess its been a while) a new ColdFusion Evangalist, since Ben Forta is more of a Web Evangalist now. His name is Adam Lehman, and here is his blog.
So what is new in CF8.
- On Demand Presentations which creates a flash player of your presentation.
- Server Monitoring (more then CFSTAT). This is a bunch of ColdFusion pages within the ColdFusion Administrator that display lots of information about the server.
- New Interactive Debugger within Eclipse
- Atleast 4x Faster just by installing CF8
- cfc creation is 23x faster
- cfparam is 31x faster
- Lots of new tags
- CFZip
- Lots of FileFunctions
- New action for CFLOOP --> FILE, lets you loop over a BIG file without reading it all into the memory
- cfreport added new features.
- css into cfreport
- output to HTML
-cfthread
- gives ability to asyncronous run a coldfusion file (long running process) or multi-thread processes
- function within CFC - onMissingMethod()
- cfdbInfo - retrieves all types of information from the database including its structure
- cfimage
- includes new data type "image"
- lots of features
- open source project imageutils.com for wrapping effects around the imaging features
- CAPTCHA
- create an image to help stop BOTS from filling out forms
-PDF Changes
- cfdocument improved
- cfpdf to manage/edit/create PDF
- also creates bookmarks and other meta data in PDF
- AJAX tags to make easier programming
-cfgrid
-cfajaxproxy
-cfajaximport tags="cfwindow"
-cfsprydataset
- and more
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