Wow!   I can’t belive Coldfusion is in version 8 (and this version comes from Adobe). 

I remember when I first used ColdFusion it came with O’Reilly’s Website web server (this is a long time ago).  It was known as DBML back then.    Before version 1.  Then I went through version 1.5, 2, 3, 3.01, 3.11, 4, 4.01, 5, 6, 7 and now 8 (I skipped a few of the .01 and other updates in between).

The product started with Allaire (the original Allaire brothers created it), then it was purchased by Macromedia, and finally, of course, by Adobe (as part of the entire Macromedia merger with Adobe)

 For those of you that don’t know ColdFusion, it’s a back end scripting language to create dynamic websites.    If you heard of ASP.net (from Microsoft), then think of it as that, except, 10,000 times better (do you think I’m a ColdFusion fan?).

The new version includes many great new features:

1. Server Monitor
2. PDF features
3. Ajax features
4. .Net Integration
5. Microsoft Excahnge Server Integration
6. Interactive Debugger

For a full list of features, check out Adobe’s site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/features/

This is definitely a must upgrade for everyone that has ColdFusion.  I will write another blog really soon about how our upgrade went, how our websites reacted to it, etc.

Until then!

Cheers!

Marcelo Lewin

The Digital Media Dude

http://www.thedigitalmediadude.com/