Macromedia Prepares ColdFusion Upgrade
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Macromedia is currently alpha testing an upgrade to its ColdFusion MX 6.1 product code-named "Blackstone." Based upon consumer feedback, Macromedia focused on improving three areas: data entry, printing and reporting. A public beta of Blackstone will be available this fall with a final release on tap for early 2005. ColdFusion MX is a product family designed to develop and deploy Web applications and services.
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Jared White has posted another Willowgarden highlight to his blog today, this time with a focus on the processing of form input.   In the bad old days of processing forms and saving each field to a column in a database row, you'd have to do a lot of manual gruntwork: accessing each field from the $_POST superglobal, checking the values, constructing the SQL query, connecting to the database and executing the query, and so forth. Wouldn't it be great if you could just import the form right into an object, and let it do the validation and the database saving based on just a few simple rules? Let's take a quick look at how that might work.   He shows how to make an instance of the WFFormCreator class in a simple script and add actions to it to handle the successful submission and the errors that might come up.
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After an annoyingly long series of beta releases, say hello to MediaWiki 1.3.0! Everyone running the beta releases is _strongly_ recommended to upgrade to the current code. MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It&apos;s designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.   This release includes a security fix: the 1.3.0 beta releases may be vulnerable to a PHP inclusion attack if include files are exposed and you have allow_url_fopen and register_globals on (this is the default configuration in PHP 4.1.x, but register_globals is off by default in 4.2.x and later).  Note that while MediaWiki through 1.1 required register_globals to be on, 1.2 and 1.3 *do not*. If you have register_globals on, you should turn it off unless you are absolutely sure you require it for some other package. See http://php.net/register_globals for general information.   Release notes: http://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=34373&release_id=259965  Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.0.tar.gz?download  Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l  Bug report system: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=34373&atid=411192  Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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The last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0 is released.
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Jim Plush has posted an offifical release announcement about his latest contribution to the PHP community - a debugging tool combining PHP (through the myBIC framework) and the Firefox FireBug extension.   I put together a couple pieces of technology to give the PHP community a debugger/profiler that should make life easier in the "web2.0" world. Are you tired of echo'ing print statements in your ajax calls? Writing to log files? Firing up big ol debuggers just to see what the value of some array is? Well look no further than the new MyBic PHP Debugger.   The tool is a smaller part of his larger MyBIC framework and can do things like writing log files, echo information back out to the screen, and communicate information back out to the Firefox user. There is a standalone version of FireBug that will be posted for those that don't want to have to install an entire framework to use it.   Keep an eye out (here and on his blog) for the links to the release when it's posted. In the meantime, you can check out a screencast [mov] of the package in action or just the screenshots in the blog entry.
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Macromedia promises to speed development of Internet applications with a new tool for its Flex platform. With Flex, enterprises can add interfaces to strategic applications, including visual
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Blog: Database issues are causing trouble for some trying to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1.
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The tools, part of an upcoming Visual Studio update, are focused on making it easier to create customized Web applications.
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Macromedia Inc. plans to announce Monday a special version of its Contribute Web publishing desktop application designed to automate and simplify the creation and modification of eBay Inc.
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Development tools for upcoming upgrade to Unix operating system will be coming soon.
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Newsforge has a very brief article posted that talks about PHP 5 and some of the features of its "new look" from the previous version.
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Capitalizing on the rapid adoption of its Flex presentation server, Macromedia Inc. is rolling out a new integrated development environment for the platform based on the popular Dreamweaver Web site tool.
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Macromedia hopes to boost use of its Flash format for delivering streaming video with a new development kit. The Flash Video Kit allows users of the company&#39;s Dreamweaver Web authoring application to add Flash video to their pages without using the full ...
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Adobe updates its Web development tool with support for Microsoft .Net.
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Mozilla's updated e-mail client lands with new tools and a slick new UI. The software's still not ready for prime time, but it looks like the final version will be impressive. In Monkey Bites.
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New PostScript RIP gives designers more options in output formats.
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As Mike Potter mentions in his new blog entry, Flash, Flex and PHP just got a great leg up when it comes to using the combination:   Patrick Mineault, who runs the AMFPHP project, has released a new version of AMFPHP 1.9, beta 2 now. However, the real big news in his blog post was the news that there is now a C based AMF extension for PHP.   According to the test data Patrick gives, the speed jump is well worth implementing the different functionality - a 100% boost, in fact, than the standard PHP version of AMFPHP. Check out Patrick's blog for the rest of these amazing stats.