Monthly Archives: September 2003

MACR Stock UP UP UP!

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Has anyone noticed that Macromedia’s stock has been trading at a 52 week high and has gone up 40% in the past few weeks(1-year chart)? This is really good news for Macromedia and in turn for us (especially if you happen to own a few shares yourself). The announcement of new products must be driving this but I really wonder what else could be having such a big impact. Their stock price went up 10% alone yesterday. This makes me wonder do stock analysts actually care about a world-wide Macromedia Usergroup event?

Retrieve FTP files directly to memory

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The CFFTP tag includes extensive support for FTP operations. However, all remote file access requires interaction with the local drive. For example, if you want to retrieve and parse an XML file, you have to get the file and save to disk, then use cffile to load it into memory, and finally parse it. All this extra disk access takes unnecessary time.

Since CFMX is now Java based, we can take advantage of the Java network library to perform this same action without disk access.

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New Blog Feature: Subscribe to Comments

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We’ve added a new feature to our blog, Subscribe to Comments. We’ve seen this in other blogs and love the feature, but had only seen a PHP implementation. We developed a pure ColdFusion implementation that should work with any blog.

Please try it out and let us know what you think. We’ll be posting the code in a few weeks.