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Simon Horwith
Simon Horwith is the editor-in-chief of ColdFusion Developer's Journal and is the CIO at AboutWeb, LLC, a Washington, DC based company specializing in staff augmentation, consulting, and training. Simon is a Macromedia Certified Master Instructor and is a member of Team Macromedia. He has been using ColdFusion since version 1.5 and specializes in ColdFusion application architecture, including architecting applications that integrate with Java, Flash, Flex, and a myriad of other technologies. In addition to presenting at CFUGs and conferences around the world, he has also been a contributing author of several books and technical papers. You can read his blog at http://simon.coldfusionjournal.com. |
Tales from the List By Simon Horwith In March, Macromedia
created quite a stir in
the community by
releasing a completely
new version of their Web
site
(www.macromedia.com).
This beta version of the
site reflected the
Macromedia vision of the
way Flash can be used
with ColdFusion (or any
other appl... May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,692 | Breathing Life into a
Time-Tested Curriculum By Simon Horwith I recently reviewed
Macromedia's new
'Developing Rich Internet
Applications' (CFDJ, Vol.
5, issue 2) course to
make developers
interested in adding
Flash to their arsenal
aware of this terrific
new offering from
Macromedia Training. May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 11,444 | An Interview with
Christian Cantrell and
Sarge By Simon Horwith This month I've chosen to
deviate from the normal
Tales from the List
format and interview
Christian Cantrell and
Sarge - two Macromedia
employees who are largely
responsible for offering
support to the ColdFusion
developer community.
Christian is Macromedia's
Col... Apr. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,122 | XML Caching Woes By Simon Horwith Before examining this
month's thread, I just
want to take a moment to
welcome Christian
Cantrell to the
community. Christian took
the position of
Macromedia Community
Manager for ColdFusion
and, shortly thereafter,
introduced himself to the
list. Since then, he ha... Feb. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 9,486 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith One of the most enjoyable
aspects of being an
active contributor to the
CFDJ List is having the
opportunity to help
developers new to
ColdFusion. New
developers greatly
appreciate the help from
'seasoned professionals,'
and often ask questions
that are general eno... Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 9,268 | Bridging the Gap Between
Flash and ColdFusion MX By Simon Horwith Everybody knows that
Flash MX and ColdFusion
MX are able to
communicate with each
other via Flash Remoting,
right? But where can
ColdFusion developers go
to learn everything they
need to know to begin
building Flash
applications and Flash
front ends to their
exi... Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,881 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith There has been a growing
trend in list discussions
about Flash. This month,
the list saw threads
centered around the use
of Flash as an
alternative to writing
DHTML Menus (hopefully
cross-browser
compatible), Flash on
SSL, and resources for
learning Flash - to name
a few. Jan. 7, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,243 | DevCon 2002 By Simon Horwith Another ColdFusion
Developers Conference has
officially come and gone.
All in all, this year's
conference, held October
27-30 in Orlando,
Florida, was a huge
success, both in terms of
attendance (well over
2,000) and content. I'll
begin with my personal
view of th... Nov. 19, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,819 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith This installment of Tales
from the List focuses on
a couple of postings by
long-time list member and
frequent provider of
expert advice, I-Lin Kuo.
Someone posted to the
list stating that they
had a variable containing
a list, and they wanted
to replace the last com... Oct. 22, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 11,235 Replies: 1 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith This installment of
'Tales from the List'
focuses on SQL much more
than ColdFusion.
Databases and the SQL
used to manipulate their
data ac-count for roughly
85% of all ColdFusion
application performance
issues. Oct. 4, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,115 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith Toward the end of July I
posted the URL to and a
summary of Macromedia's
performance comparison
between ColdFusion MX and
ColdFusion 5. The two
versions of ColdFusion
were performance tested
on identical machines,
with several different
processor and memory
config... Aug. 23, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,653 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith This month, as predicted,
ColdFusion MX questions
abound on the CFDJList as
many developers attempted
to create ColdFusion
Components for the first
time. While the majority
of these posts turned out
to be simple syntactical
errors, Ray Camden did
chime in from time ... Jul. 31, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,311 | Tales From The List By Simon Horwith The thread I've chosen to
examine this month is all
about driving ColdFusion
sites with Microsoft
Access databases. Very
often I hear developers
state that 'Access is
evil,' or that you'd have
to be crazy to use Access
on the back end of a Web
application, but are
... Jun. 28, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 10,979 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith Developers were given
their first glimpse of
the next generation of
ColdFusion at last year's
Developers Conference,
and periodic
discussion/speculation
has made the CFDJList
ever since. In May
Macromedia finally lifted
the nondisclosure
agreement on ColdFusion
... May. 30, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 7,919 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith The CFDJList discussion
thread we'll examine this
month began with a post
by list subscriber Helen
Warren. Helen's e-mail
described one of her
daily on-the-job tasks of
parsing a pipe-delimited
text file containing
approximately 30,000
records (about companies)
an... May. 2, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,724 | Tales from the List By Simon Horwith Welcome to the first
installment of 'Tales
from the List,' a monthly
column devoted to the
discussion threads (and
their creators) on the
ColdFusion Developer's
Journal Mail List
(CFDJList). Each
installment will examine
popular discussion
thread(s) from the list ... Apr. 8, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,016 | SQL Server 2000 Meets XML By Simon Horwith The overwhelming majority
of ColdFusion
applications on the Web
and in our intranets are
tightly integrated with a
relational database
management system of some
sort. Because of its low
cost, ease of
installation and
administration, and
excellent performance,
Mi... Aug. 31, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 11,289 Replies: 1 |
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