From community member Stephen Moretti, manager of the Scottish ColdFusion User Group:

http://nil.checksite.co.uk/post.cfm/coldfusion-8

A notable quote:

"Everyone I've spoken to says that ColdFusion 8 is probably the most significant upgrade for ColdFusion yet. If you don't upgrade for anything else, then you must upgrade for the performance increase you will get for your cfcs and your application in general."

Damon

Adobe Feeds is now live as a replacement for the old "weblogs.macromedia.com" Weblog aggregator, and it's much, much, MUCH faster! In addition to the Adobe ColdFusion 8 upgrade, there were also a few code and query optimizations I understand as well.

But wow, what a difference!

Check it out here:
http://feeds.adobe.com

Damon

Yep, we're at it again. I blogged previously about Adobe's sponsorship of the Tour of California bike race, and this week Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 (Beta) and Flex is powering the Tour of Georgia bike race, running on clustered servers at Media Temple.

Again, special thanks go to Allan Padgett, who is deeply involved at all levels, Ed Solovey, Alex Glosband, Seth Hodgson and Jeff Vroom from my team (LiveCycle Data Services Engineering) for their hard work on this, tweaking the site, and finding a few issues of additional "bulletproofing" that will make it into the final LC Data Service 2.6 product as a result of the experience of powering the two Tour race events.

Briefly, the Tour Tracker is a Flex application written in Flex 3 connected to a cluster of 12 LiveCycle Data Services servers and a network of servers provided by Akamai. GPS data comes from units on the cars and on the bikes, using the cellular network to send GPS via UDP back to one of our LCDS servers. Chat is via LCDS messaging. Play by play is via LCDS Data Management. Photos are using the Flickr API.

Check it out live here:
http://www.tourdegeorgiatracker.com/

Damon

Hot off the press, a new version of the Data Services Stress Testing Framework has been posted to Adobe Labs.

The Data Services Stress Testing Framework helps developers using LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6 load test their applications. This tool was formerly known as the Flex Stress Testing Framework. It has been updated for LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6 and has many new features and bug fixes.

Grab it here!

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Data_Services_Stress_Testing_Framework

Damon