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ColdFusion Powers City Of Brussels
Wim Dewijngaert wrote to tell me that he's launched a new website for the City of Brussels, Belgium. The site is powered by ColdFusion, and uses Flex, too.
TechRepublic Continues ColdFusion 8 Coverage With Story About FoodSHIELD
As a follow-up to last week's story on how NaturalInsight uses ColdFusion 8, TechRepublic is running a new story entitled How FoodSHIELD's developers put ColdFusion 8 to good use. In it, Brian Kotek explains what FoodSHIELD does, and how they use ColdFusion, Savvy CMS, Adobe Connect, and more to power their important work. Among the ColdFusion 8 features mentioned are Ajax support and the integrated LiveCycle Data Services (used to power AIR applications).
TechRepublic Explores How NaturalInsight Uses ColdFusion 8
Brian Kotek has written a story for TechRepublic entitled ColdFusion 8: A technical exploration of real-world use which looks at how NaturalInsight uses ColdFusion 8 to solve business problems. He explains the business need, provides some architectural insight, explores what ColdFusion 8 does well, and also notes what they'd like changed and enhanced in the future.
itbusiness.ca: ColdFusion Helps UNICEF Fight HIV/AIDS
itbusiness.ca is running a story entitled ColdFusion drives UNICEF Canada's heated battle against HIV/AIDS. It also quotes platform evangelist Adam Lehman talking about ColdFusion 9.
Zogby International Powered By ColdFusion
Zogby International is a polling and opinion tracking company, and Zogby data is used by news organizations, businesses, political campaigns and more. And in this exciting (and contentious) political season, John Zogby has become something of a fixture on the news circuit. The Zogby website (which could use a UI overhaul) features news, trends, an electoral map, online polling, and more. And the site is all powered by ColdFusion (it appears to be ColdFusion 5). In fact, it looks like Zogby has been using ColdFusion for a very long time, because I found some pages with a .dbm extension!
ColdFusion Helps GlobeSmart Help Business Travellers
GlobeSmart is a web-based tool providing business personnel with quick and easy access to extensive and frequently updated knowledge on how to conduct business effectively with people from countries around the world. From business meeting etiquette and expectations to local tipping to common greetings to understanding local attitudes and sensitivities to conversational dos and don'ts to local currency and electricity requirements to internal travel options and much more, GlobeSmart is used by business travelers to prepare for and successfully conduct business trips to countries the world over. And GlobeSmart is powered entirely by ColdFusion.
Detroit News Blog Powered By ColdFusion
I was checking the Detroit News site for updates on some local elections, and wondered on to the newspaper blog Blog House, and was really pleased to see that Detroit News Blog House is powered by ColdFusion. If anyone has any insight on this one, as in who built the site or what blog code they are using or anything else, please share.
Case Study: FoodSHIELD Leverages ColdFusion And Acrobat Connect Pro
FoodSHIELD is a web-based platform that creates community, increases collaboration, and facilitates communication among thousands of public and private entities involved in protecting and defending the United States food supply. From laboratories and regulatory agencies at local, county, state, and federal offices, to academia and industry, FoodSHIELD is a central portal where people in all 50 states work collectively to safeguard the national food supply through secure, integrated resources. FoodSHIELD is sponsored by the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD), a Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, as well as by the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) and by grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FoodSHIELD was built entirely with Adobe technology from the ground up, and is primarily powered by ColdFusion. The full case study has been posted online.
LendingTree Selects ColdFusion Based Loan Pricing Technology
LendingTree is the number one online lending exchange, and LendingTree has just announced that they have selected LXE Software's LoanXEngine as a preferred technology solution for CRM and automated loan pricing for lenders participating in the LendingTree network. And LoanXEngine is all powered by ColdFusion 8. Thanks to Alan Johnson of LXE Software Inc. for bringing this one to my attention.
Propertyqube.com = ColdFusion + Google Base
David McGraw wrote to tell me about Propertyqube, a real estate social network site that he built. It features a property listing service that uses ColdFusion 8 to parse Google Base data.
Case-Study: The Alpha School System And ColdFusion 8
The Alpha School System (TASS) is an Australian browser-based administration and portal application for K-12 schools. It includes modules for enrollment; student, parent, and teacher records; timetables; fundraising information, and financial accounts. It also offers online community portals for students, parents, and teachers, as well as web-based student grading tools. The application was built using ColdFusion 8 and Flash CS3, and uses ColdFusion 8 PDF generation and integration features extensively. A case-study has been posted on Adobe.com.
Case Study: voeveo Using ColdFusion 8
A case-study on how voeveo is using ColdFusion 8 has been posted to the Adobe site. This one is worth a read.
ColdFusion 8 Ensures Senate Lobbying Transparency
On January 1st 2008, the US Senate's lobbyist reform bill (S.1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007) went into effect. The bill is designed to provide greater transparency in the legislative process, and requires full disclosure pertaining to lobbying activities. So what does this have to do with ColdFusion? The bill requires that lobbying information be accessible and searchable online, and a new site has been created to do just that. The Lobbying Disclosure Electronic Filing System is built using ColdFusion 8 and Mach-II, and even uses Flex 3 (for example, the advanced data grid used to display search results). Among the ColdFusion 8 features used in this application are PDF generation and PDF form integration. So there you have it - much needed lobbyist transparency, powered by ColdFusion!
The Economist Loves ColdFusion 8
I just received a great message from a ColdFusion developer at The Economist, and just had to share it: Hi Ben, I thought I'd let you know that Economist.com has finished it's port to ColdFusion 8 across the whole live cluster and we have seen a reduction in page generation time of around 20% which is amazing and totally unexpected. Additionally we used to get several restarts a day on each server which have vanished. ColdFusion 8 on Windows 2003 with IIS quite simply doesn't crash anymore for us. We had to set-up the right monitoring thread kills e.t.c. but the whole thing is ridiculously stable. I am amazed. I love messages like this! ColdFusion 8 rocks, and if you yet to try it for yourself, you owe it to yourself to do so immediately!
ColdFusion Helps Huckabee Take The GOP Lead
Ok, so the title may be a bit of a stretch. ;-) But ... without venturing into political specifics, it is cool to see that GOP front runner Mike Huckabee is using ColdFusion (and Fusebox) to power his website! Thanks to Prayank Swaroop for pointing this one out.

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