December 15, 2011
HackMyCF Updated for APSB11-29 Security Hotfix
Adobe released a security hotfix APSB11-29 for ColdFusion 8 and 9 on Tuesday, which fixes two XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerabilities (CVE-2011-2463 and CVE-2011-4368). One vulnerability exists in cfform and the other in RDS.
October 26, 2011
Adobe eSeminar on FuseGuard
Adobe has asked me to do an online e-seminar: Protecting ColdFusion Applications with FuseGuard thursday November 3rd at 10am PT / 1pm ET.If you're curious about FuseGuard and how it works please head over to Adobe.com and register now!
September 12, 2011
ColdFusion Developer Week at Adobe.com
This week (September 12-16 2011) is ColdFusion Developer Week over at Adobe.
March 08, 2011
Recent ColdFusion Security Hotfix Updated Today
Adobe has updated the security hotfix that was released last month (February 2011) APSB11-04. The technote states that all users should re-apply the hotfix:Adobe has received a few issues with the Security Hot fix released on February 8, 2011.
August 12, 2010
Path Traversal Vulnerability Security Hotfix for ColdFusion Released
Adobe released a security hotfix for a path traversal vulnerability in ColdFusion administrator (CVE-2010-2861, APSB10-18). On the Adobe security bulletin page it lists affected software versions: ColdFusion 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 9.0.1 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.
October 22, 2009
You May Need to Reapply CF Security Hotfix CVE-2009-1877
Back in August Adobe released a series of ColdFusion security Hotfixes in security bulletin APSB09-12. One of the vulnerabilities that was supposed to be fixed was a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability that I found and reported to Adobe, known as CVE-2009-1877.
October 14, 2009
Adobe MAX: Building JEE Portlets with ColdFusion 9
Adobe has posted the recording of my Adobe MAX presentation Building JEE Portlets with ColdFusion 9. Overall it was a great conference and I was happy to be a part of it. I was also happy to cover the topic of Portlets in ColdFusion 9, since it hasn't gotten much publicity as a new feature.
October 08, 2008
Geolocation API for Adobe AIR?
Mozilla recently announced a new project called Geode - which allows web sites to request your location using JavaScript. I assume this will be built into a future release of Firefox someday, but for now it's a Plugin.
February 25, 2008
Adobe AIR Tutorial for HTML / JavaScript Developers
I spent a some time this weekend preparing for the Adobe AIR & Flex 3 Launch Event at my ColdFusion user group. One thing I wanted to show people was how to build a simple Adobe AIR Desktop Application using HTML & JavaScript.
March 19, 2007
Buy Flex 2 for Less
I just noticed today that you can buy Adobe Flex from Amazon and save a few bucks. They have Flex Builder 2 with Charting for $715.99 (it cost $749 on Adobe.com), and the standard Flex Builder 2 for $459.99 ($499 on Adobe.com). Both will ship for free.
December 22, 2006
New Icons for Adobe's Next Product Line
Adobe's new lineup of icons for the upcoming products including ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio), Adobe Photoshop CS3, etc. have been made public by John Nack, and they are generated quite a bit of reaction both good and bad.Here's the new icon for ColdFusion 8.
November 16, 2006
Kuler Kolors
Adobe launched kuler on this morning. It's a tool that lets you create color swatches, and also has some community features that allow you to rate other people's color schemes. You can download the color swatches and import them into Photoshop or illustrator (ase files). Nice work Adobe.
September 01, 2006
Adobe has the Greenest Office in the US
Adobe was in the September 2006 Business 2.0 magazine for having the greenest office in America. Congrats Adobe!The article shows that Adobe has invested $1.1 million in energy efficiency, and is now saving $1 million annually! That's a great example for other big companies to follow.
August 22, 2006
Adobe Has a del.icio.us Account
Thanks Rich at the basement for pointing out that Adobe has a del.icio.us account.
February 09, 2006
Interview with Sean Corfield
I thought it would be fun, and informative to conduct some interviews with web developers on my blog. I'm starting off with someone that most of my blog readers probably already know, and many have probably even had a beer with - Sean Corfield.
July 27, 2005
Behind the scenes at Adobe
Photoshop news has posted tons of behind the scense photos of the Adobe offices. They look pretty swank!In the far Southwest corner of the 10th floor is the official Photoshop Lounge.
July 18, 2005
DOJ taking a closer look at Adobe Macromedia Merger
Via arstechnica, The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking a closer look at Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia.
June 08, 2005
Open Source at Adobe
I noticed this snip about open source software at Adobe on the O'Reilly Radar:The Adobe chap had interesting
things to say about their heavily constrained use of open source:
April 19, 2005
Identity Theft
I think I finally put my finger on why hard-core Macromedians are generally un-easy about the pending Macromedia acquisition. Its that everyone hates Adobe.
April 19, 2005
The Day After the Storm
I refrained from posting about the merger yesterday, though I had some thoughts written up - I never got around to posting them. Lots of people have commented on the topic since, Jason Kottke has a good summary of some of the recent talk about the merger.
March 06, 2004
Making Acrobat Reader 6 Fast!
By removing most of the plugins in the adobe acrobat folder, you can make Acrobat Start up significantly faster on windows. Using these instructions, it seams at least 3 times faster:From the Start->Run windows menu, Open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.
