ColdFusion, Flash, Sean Corfield, and Ajax

Margaret mentioned her cousin's son, Paul -- I think that's technically a first cousin once removed -- who has a weblog at http://pjk.us . I didn't know you could get .us domain names at that level. Cool. A ColdFusion fan. Macromedia makes Flash, which powers a lot of the nice-looking animations on the web, and I gather that ColdFusion is a web server and development environment for developing websites, with good support for developing Flash-based or Flash-rich websites. I haven't done much with Flash, but I can see the appeal. Here is the ColdFusion FAQ. Macromedia is lucky to have Sean Corfield working for them. I met him a few times at the C++ standards meetings a decade ago. Macromedia started using the term "MX" a couple of years ago. My guess is that it stands for "More eXtreme". Their FAQ says: What is MX? We use "MX" to identify the new products that are part of the Macromedia MX product family. Each product that bears the MX mark is major new version. Together, the ...

21:53:32 March 17, 2005, Thursday (PST) Source: GIGO: words unreadable aloud

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