Mike Nimer is a senior engineer on the ColdFusion engineering team, responsible for features such as the Rich Forms in ColdFusion 7 and the Administrator API. Before joining the engineering team, he spent three years working as a senior consultant with Allaire and then Macromedia consulting group, providing on-site assistance to customers with their architecture planning, code reviews, performance tuning, and general fire fighting.
When the ColdFusion engineering team started planning ColdFusion MX 7, we
finally had time to give the cfform tags some love. We talked to and heard
from many customers and knew that we needed to do a cfform tag overhaul for
HTML-based forms. We also knew that that if it was possible, we wanted to
help ColdFusion developers harness the richness of Macromedia Flash Player
and open up the cfform tag to the incredible flexibility of XForms. We knew
that if we could accomplish all of this with a simple and easy cfform tag
syntax, it would be a big win for you, the developer, and your application
users.
Originally, ColdFusion cfform support was just a few tags that generated some
basic JavaScript validation - validation that certainly had its critics. This
all changed with ... (more)
With the announcement of ColdFusion MX 7 in February, we introduced event
gateways that turn the ColdFusion web application server into a bona fide
Internet application server. The gateways are a great new feature for
developers. You can now build applications for a variety of protocols and
devices, not just HTTP. Because it's ColdFusion, we made it easy to develop
and deploy outside the... (more)
Mike Nimer is a senior engineer on the ColdFusion engineering team, responsible for features such as the Rich Forms in ColdFusion 7 and the Administrator API. Before joining the engineering team, he spent three years working as a senior consultant with Allaire and then Macromedia consulting group, providing on-site assistance to customers with their architecture planning, code reviews, performance tuning, and general fire fighting.
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