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Rob Brooks-Bilson

Biography

Rob Brooks-Bilson is a consultant, freelance writer and the Director of Architecture at Amkor Technology, where he has worked since 1996. Rob's involvement with ColdFusion goes all the way back to version 1.5 and includes several large-scale projects, the creation of numerous open source custom tags, and more recently, the open source Common Function Library Project, where he coordinates several libraries of freely available functions. Rob is an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion and is a frequent speaker at ColdFusion user groups and conferences.

Rob is the author of O'Reilly's Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition. He has written several articles on ColdFusion for Intranet Design Magazine, CF Advisor, and CNET's Builder.com.

Books

Programming ColdFusion MX Programming ColdFusion MX
by Rob Brooks-Bilson
Second Edition August 2003
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Programming ColdFusion Programming ColdFusion
by Rob Brooks-Bilson
August 2001
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Articles

Blog

Rob's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.brooks-bilson.com/blogs/rob

Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2.1

October 23 2008

Looks like the Lightroom 2.1 update has officially been released. For those waiting for it, the 2.1 release includes Adobe Camera Raw 5.1 as well as a long list of bug fixes. For the full list, see the ReadMe (PDF). Windows Version Mac Versio... read more

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Hits the Street

July 29 2008

Over the past year, I've upped my digital photography skills quite a bit. One of the tools I now find I can't live without is Adobe Lightroom. I've been running version 1.x for the better part of a year now, and am happy to announce that version 2.... read more

Moderating Comments

July 20 2008

Due to the amount of comment spam getting by the captcha these days, I've decided to remove the captcha and instead turn on moderated comments. I hate to have to do this, but the amount of comment spam was starting to get ridiculous, and I really ha... read more

Speaking at Adobe MAX 2008

July 16 2008

Just a quick note that I'll be speaking at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. My topic this year is Advanced ColdFusion Caching Strategies. I'll be covering ways to improve application performance and scaling using both ColdFusion's built-in caching m... read more

ColdFusion Deployment Builder released on RIAForge

June 12 2008

Matt Riley, one of our Sr. Engineers at Amkor has just released his first open source project, dubbed the Deployment Server. It's a ColdFusion application (Mach-II 1.5, ColdSpring, EXT 2.0, Java SE 6, Ant 1.7.0, SVN, SQL Server) that's designed to m... read more

COX Communications to Provide SDV Tuning Adapter at No Additional Cost

June 02 2008

I've seen a lot of discussion around pricing for the upcoming Tuning Adapter being developed for Tivo Series 3 and Tivo HD boxes to allow for access to channels delivered via SDV, but nothing official has been announced - until now. I just receive... read more

ColdFusion 9 Feature Idea: Multiple JVMs

May 14 2008

A recent post on Brian Kotek's blog about future directions for ColdFusion sparked a lot of debate over whether or not ColdFusion should support AS3 server-side. I want to change the focus here a bit and talk about a feature I've been thinking about... read more

Creating Engaging Experiences for SAP Software

May 05 2008

Live blogging from SAPPHIRE 2008 in Orlando. Andre Salazar from Adobe is giving a session on creating engaging experiences for SAP using Adobe technology. Main themes are Adobe has an entire group for managing the SAP partnership. Technologies... read more

Fix for Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Hibernation Issue where Laptop Restarts Immediately after Hibernating

May 02 2008

I had an issue with my new T-61 recently where I would put the laptop in hibernate mode, only to have it start back up about 5 seconds after shutting down. At first I thought there was something defective with my docking station, but trying the lapt... read more

Geexoo Aggregates ColdFusion Blogs

April 25 2008

I haven't seen this posted around the ColdFusion blogosphere, so here goes. Looks like there's a "new" aggregator out there called Geexoo that's hosting ColdFusion feeds (although they spell it Cold Fusion). Right now, they are only aggregating... read more

ColdFusion 8.0.1 Released, Includes 64-bit Support

April 04 2008

Hot news flash. ColdFusion 8.0.1 has been released with support for 64-bit operating systems. Also included in the release are a slew of bug fixes as well as some tasty new features including: Update to core 3rd party libraries (jdk 1.6.0_03, ... read more

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Hits Beta

April 02 2008

I happened to be over at the Adobe Labs site today when I noticed they have the beta for Lightroom 2.0. I've been a Lightroom user for about 6 months now, and I absolutely love it. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the beta to see the impr... read more

Rethinking ColdFusion 8's New UI Controls

March 24 2008

I've been working up a few demos lately that make use of the new layout tags in ColdFusion 8, and while I think they really do make Ajax based layouts much easier than using the Ext js and YUI libraries on their own, there are a couple of issues I've... read more

Best ColdFusion YouTube Videos Ever

March 24 2008

Over on YouTube, there have been a bunch of "Why ColdFusion" videos lately. A coworker pointed me to three the other day that were absolutely brilliant: read more