Archive: September 2004

To sum it up: you really need that blackstone thingie. :-) Another important fact Ben mentioned was that basically, because of its modularity, CF Blackstone is "CF 6.1 with new features added". That might be important to all you guys who are currently planning to migrate to MX: if your app runs on 6.1, it will run on blackstone, because, as Ben said, the core tag's code stayed the same. This…

Some more information on printing and stuff... - For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is a basic query builder, and wizards to define charts (in fact this is…

Continuing with the form stuff: - Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. - Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a new attribute format="flash" which produces a Flash based GRID. By just reviewing…

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session... - An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. - Did you know that CF was backwards compatible to DBML up to including CF 5? To clear that up: DBML was the first…