ColdFusion Matt | 06 May 2007 11:22 am
Scorpio thoughts from cf.Objective conference
I’m at the cf.Objective conference now. Ben Forta is about to give a talk about the newest release of ColdFusion codenamed Scorpio. The CF Product Manager, Jason Delmore has given several talks about the new features of CF8. It seems like ColdFusion is about to catch up with php 
Seriously though, the new image manipulation features sound very useful. As well, the inclusion of the FCKEditor into text form fields is going to be sweet. CF8 should be a great platform for building flexible, custom content management systems.
As well, the new file i/o functions, inclusion of sftp support and some of the other stuff I use often as a Linux geek are going to be handy. As I move further away from coding into management, ColdFusion seems like a solid direction to take for my coding needs.
Ben’s into his talk now. Let’s see if there’s anything groundbreaking …
Cool … Ben is announcing features of CF that involve integration into the IDE CFEclipse plugin.
New CF + Eclipse features:
1. CF / Ajax Application Wizard. Ben is demoing this right now. Very slick. This is similar to the Flex wizard. So far looks like a rich feature set. And … woah, the ability to debug, in realtime, right within the Ajax client. Hmm, this is idiot proof.
2. New Eclipse based ColdFusion debugger. This will include step through debugging, access to variables and the ability to do breakpoints. Heh heh, Jason McKinney whom I work with at Aslan Interactive just leaned to me and mentioned how this is going to make FusionDebug useless (the FusionDebug guys are here and just raffled away a couple licenses).
Flex Data Services (fighting data clobbering):
This is slick, Ben is demoing how a Flex Data Services is maintaining the relationship of between the client and the state of the data theyre looking at. In his example, two users are editing the same product data. As one changes the price of a product, the other is notified right away that the data they’re looking at has been updated and there is now a conflict with the data they have on their screen and the updated data. This second user now has options on updating or ignoring. As well there looks to be some heavy performance boosts along with ease of installation. The CF8 installer will ask if you want to install LCDS (Life Cycle Data Services … new name), and that’s pretty much it.
When?
Sounds like this will all be coming out in the summer or early fall. Adobe Max 2007 is going to be in Chicago (my home) at the end of September. I assume this is going to be all out by then.
