Wanted to know what all those XML files in Coldfusion MX are, what purpose they have and were they live? Wonder no more, go have a read of this new Technote.

Some various links taken off blogs about stuff that happened at MAX. More when I get round to it.

Official

• MAX 2004

Ray Camden

• MAX Round Up
• MAX: Creating Richer and More Maintainable Sites with CSS
• More MAX Notes (from Wednesday)
• More MAX Notes
• MAX Reports

Simon Horwith

• Thoughts on MAX

Ben Forta

• MAX Session Presentation, Handouts, and Code
• ColdFusion BOF Report
• MAX General Session Was A Hit

If you’re interested in Flex then go take a look at Lucas Sherwood’s (from Macromedia) blog.

Basically if you meet certain criteria you can now get Flex for free, which, is a great thing.

The CFMX 6.1 updater has now been released, it contains a number of hotfixes previously released, security updates and more.

Full Details

Downloads Page

Quick note on this, if you’re installing on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 (as I just have) you may the following error message, don’t worry about it though it will installed fine.

You’re also going to need to recompile the connector if you’re using Apache 1.3, doesn’t seem to affect Apache 2.

SP2 is coming out very soon, 16th August I’ve heard. Though it’s coming with issues.

The whole browsing experience is going to change in the way it handles plugins, downloaded files etc. Macromedia have put up a page that details changes and provides links to the M$ pages of interest.

Interestingly though IBM are blocking the update and M$ themselves have released this tool which lets you “Temporarily Disabling Delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Through Windows Update and Automatic Updates”.

Edit: BBC News article on SP2 “issues”.