Welcome to the worldwide community of Allaire developers! Your success is important to Allaire. From the moment you install our software to the day you launch your site—and beyond—Allaire is ready to help. We've dedicated substantial resources to Professional Services, investing heavily to build the worldwide resources, the support infrastructure, and the partner relationships to keep you and your team moving ahead through each phase of the development process.
These resources include comprehensive informational resources available to you at no charge. The list below highlights those resources as well as a few additional key sources of information that may be of assistance to you.
The Allaire Developer's Exchange is an online, self-service library that allows visitors to view, contribute, and download multiple types of content, and allows contributors password access to administer their contributions. Sections currently include:
Applications | Custom Tags | Java | Allaire Spectra | Visual Tools | Web ContentApplications
ColdFusion Web applications provide a wide range of solutions for e-commerce, interactive publishing, business systems, and collaborative computing. If you have a commercial Web application, please enter your information here.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfmCustom Tags
Custom Tags can be used to provide a tag-based wrapper around anything in the ColdFusion universe — including client-side HTML, Java and JavaScript, all of ColdFusion's native server-side interfaces (QUERY, LDAP, POP, etc.), and any external server-side code (through CFHTTP, CFOBJECT and CFAPI). Common uses of custom tags include utilities and functions, UI components, business rules components, intelligent agents, and application APIs.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfmJava (Applets & Servlets)
Java can be used to build and extend your Web applications. Java Servlets are components that can be used to extend the functionality of your Web server. Servlets are capable of retrieving data from various sources (including databases and file systems) and rendering the data as HTML or XML for your Web clients. Java applets can be used to expand the capabilities of the Web pages your clients read. Applets allow Web browsers to display complex and interactive controls (such as trees and tables) that are not available using standard HTML technologies.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfmAllaire Spectra
Allaire Spectra developers can easily package object types, rules, tags, and PLPs with their related methods and handlers and make them available to developers for tasks such as ERP integration, order processing, and third-party tool integration.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfmVisual Tools
Visual Tools are components that are used to extend the HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio development environment. This category includes such things as snippets, custom dialogs/tag editors (VTML), tag insight additions, toolbars, color palettes, templates, add-in help, and guides.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfmWeb Content
No one builds a Web site with text alone. We've created a new section in the Developer's Exchange to help you share the content you're most proud of. If you've created (or host a site that maintains) fonts, custom button images, audio, graphics, style sheets, animation, applets or JavaScripts, feel free to load in a subset of your content here and highlight your wares to your colleagues. If you're looking for something to add to your own pages, please stop in and take a look around.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/gallery.cfm
Accelerate your development process. Visit Allaire's online, product-focused developer centers, or DevCenters, for product updates, custom tags, sample applications, components, third-party tools, and specialized information on security, scalability, performance tuning, and e-commerce. Updated weekely, the DevCenters contain the latest technical information available from Allaire and include whitepapers, beta product news, technical tips, and articles from Allaire staff. DevCenters are available for:
http://www.allaire.com/developer
All technical articles and product announcements that are posted to the
Allaire DevCenters over the course of a month are compiled into a monthly archive
available to you via email called the Allaire DevCenter News. You can subscribe in seconds to this
newsletter from the front page of any DevCenter to stay current on the latest techniques,
technologies, and news from Allaire.
http://www.allaire.com/developer
In addition to Allaire's online DevCenters, there are a number of third-party resources available to support your development efforts in the Reference Desk. Content scope ranges from beginner to advanced across all of these sites. If you're looking for technical forums, brief technical articles, custom tags, employers or employees, you'll find many of these resources to be of great help Note: This reference list is not to be considered a formal endorsement by Allaire.
Real problems call for real answers. Allaire offers the expertise of the Allaire technical staff, the advanced developers in Team Allaire,* and other Allaire customers in the Support forums.
* Team Allaire is a team of experienced Web developers who provide technical advice based on their own real-life development experience with Allaire products. Look for Team Allaire members in the Allaire Spectra Support forum, ColdFusion Support forum, the HomeSite Support forum, and the JRun Support forum.There are also a number of discussion groups that are available from external resources. The leading list service is provided courtesy of House Of Fusion. It includes:
Allaire Spectra
ColdFusion
JRun
ColdFusion Job Bank
Along with the major industry job boards such as The CareerBuilder Network, The Monster Board, and CareerMosaic, many of the ColdFusion online magazines offer integrated job banks for ColdFusion developers and employers. The Allaire.com Web site maintains a list of all currently relevant resources for your convenience.
http://www.allaire.com/Developer/ReferenceDesk/JobBank.cfmAllaire Security Zone
The emergence of Web applications and "public" computing over the Internet creates new security challenges for IT managers and developers alike. Look to the Security Zone for security bulletins and technical briefs that provide information to customers about significant security issues.
http://www.allaire.com/securityColdFusion User Groups
Allaire ColdFusion User Groups play an important part in information exchange and professional relationships building. ColdFusion User Groups are no exception and have had great success worldwide. More than 100 groups now meet on a monthly basis. User group membership is the best way to stay up to date in the Allaire developer community.
A complete list of ColdFusion User Groups is posted on the Allaire Web site with information on starting a new group if there isn't one in your area.
http://www.allaire.com/developer/ug.cfmAllaire Developer Conference
The Allaire Developer Conference is Allaire's biggest event of the year, and started with our first worldwide conference in Boston in 1999. Our 2000 conference is planned for Washington DC, and as the years continue, more information on all annual conferences can be found at the link below. It's the biggest event of the year. Don't miss your chance to see what your counterparts are doing with Allaire Spectra, ColdFusion, and JRun, and hear the company's vision for bringing business to the Web.
http://www.allaire.com/conferenceColdFusion Developer's Journal
ColdFusion Developer's Journal (CFDJ) brings you in-depth perspectives from the leaders in the ColdFusion and Web Application development community. In addition, CFDJ features reviews of the newest and most innovative products on the market from our experienced staff of writers. Check out the next issue of ColdFusion Developer's Journal for: interviews with the most influential people in the industry, ColdFusion tutorials, CFDJ tips, tricks & techniques, ColdFusion FAQs, CFDJ News from the industry, ColdFusion Career Opportunities, and much more. In addition, CFDJ's Web site offers the latest onine ColdFusion information and allows readers access to the hottest ColdFusion jobs, ColdFusion discussion forums, special offers from CFDJ advertisers, and more.