FireLogger is a server logger console for Firebug with built-in support for Python and PHP. CF-FireLogger adds ColdFusion support to FireLogger, enabling logging of information from within ColdFusion code directly to the Firebug/FireLogger console.

The ColdFusion team has relaunched their blog at blogs.coldfusion.com.

ColdFusion security guru Pete Freitag has written an article for ADC on Securing your applications using HttpOnly cookies with ColdFusion, explaining what these are, why they are important, and how you can leverage them to improve the security of your ColdFusion applications.

Intergral has announced a free iOS client for their FusionReactor Enterprise Pro - Active Server Monitor. FusionReactor Mobile provides a feature rich monitoring dashboard which gives you instant notifications of your current server status. It is the ideal way to keep track and monitor your Adobe ColdFusion Servers, Flex and J2EE applications directly from your mobile device. An Android version is on the way.

The ColdFusion team has just posted a security hotfix to address a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability in ColdFusion 8.x and 9.x (Windows, Macintosh and Unix).

Our buddies over at ColdBox have launched a contest giving you the chance to win a cool Kindle Fire and an iPod nano! This contest is available to all existing and new ColdFusion users.

Learn FunGo has announced the first in a series of sessions to help folks get started with ColdFusion. The first 2-hour session is on November 7th, 2011, and is priced at just $10!

As per this Business Insider Europe story, European Union Member of European Parliament Tiziano Motti has gained support to expand data storage of Google searches to protect children, and is proposing to use LogBox (a ColdFusion based RIAForge project) for logging.

UPDATE: As many have noted, the writer of the Business Insider Europe did really shoddy research. While I like seeing ColdFusion stories in the news, this is just that, a news story, and not a well researched or accurate one. The LogBox in question is not the one linked to in the story and has nothing to do with ColdFusion.

Our buddies at Intergral, the folks who create FusionReactor, have released a new tool for the ColdFusion community. FusionAnalytics provides deep and comprehensive performance analysis of ColdFusion and your applications allowing you to better measure performance, identify trouble spots, and obtain a complete picture of consolidated events taking place across time, servers, and applications.

FusionReactor has long been a vital tool in every ColdFusion Administrator's toolbox. And now, just in time for them to show it off at MAX 2011 in Los Angeles, Intergral has released FusionReactor 4. New to this release are:

• AMF monitoring and debugging
• Improved log management
• Better integration with ColdFusion logging and metrics
• Sophisticated memory graphing
• And more

I've never been a fan of Go Daddy ColdFusion hosting. But, with them announcing that they are exiting the ColdFusion hosting business, quite a few users have e-mailed to ask for alternative hosting recommendations. HostMysite has been hosting my own site for many years, and I've been very pleased with the service and up-time on my dedicated servers. Earlier this week they emailed to tell me that in response to the Go Daddy announcement they were offering discounted ColdFusion hosting. So, for free setup and 30% off ColdFusion hosting plans, just click here.

ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hot Fix 2 has just been released.

ColdFusion Developer Week is a series of 11 free, live webinars hosted by seasoned ColdFusion experts (including our own Terry Ryan and Ray Camden) covering a whole range of topics relating to ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder. If you are a new developer, someone with little or no ColdFusion experience, or even if you have been using ColdFusion all your life, this event is ideal for you. The sessions run September 12-16, 2011, and registration is required.

We're hosting three upcoming ColdFusion 9 webinars:

• ColdFusion 9: Ridiculously Easy: The Basics on August 30, 2011
• ColdFusion 9: Ridiculously Easy: Web Applications on September 06, 2011
• ColdFusion 9: Intro to Solr on September 08, 2011

Attention all UK ColdFusion developers. Highlander has been a partner for many years, and is also an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK. Highlander is offering a 4 day Advanced ColdFusion 9 training course 9 in London on September 12th through 15th, the only such course in the UK this year.

Kevin Benore, a long time ColdFusion developer and a Senior Web Developer at POLITICO, is now blogging. Only a few posts up there so far, but already some good ColdFusion coverage. Welcome to the blogosphere, Kevin!

A user emailed me to ask about installing ColdFusion when no desktop access is available (Telnet access, for example). I sent him this link describing Performing a silent installation of ColdFusion 9, and am posting it here just so I have it the next time I need it.

ColdFusion Technical Support Engineer Vikas Chandran explains how to run Java servlets on ColdFusion.

Fellow Adobe evangelist (hey, it's fun to type that) Ray Camden has posted an Initial list of speakers and sessions for the ColdFusion Unconference at Adobe MAX 2011.

Ray Camden spilled the beans on an initiative to make ColdFusion online docs better. Read his post and get involved!

We've just posted a security hotfix for ColdFusion 8.x and 9.x (for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX).

As we've done in previous years, at Adobe MAX 2011 we'll be hosting a series of unconferences, including the ever-popular ColdFusion Unconference, once again unmanaged by everyone's favorite ColdFusion Jedi, Ray Camden. Ray has opened a call for speakers on his blog.

RIACON is August 6-7, 2011, in the Washington, DC area. Adobe will be present, and the ColdFusion team will be presenting sessions on a variety of topics including discussions of the next version of ColdFusion.

Developer Week 2011 is June 20-24, 2011, and this year we have almost 20 sessions on Flex, mobile development, and back-end integration to ColdFusion, Java, and PHP. Registration is now open.

Not sure how I missed this one, but better late than never. Rob Brooks-Bilson has written an incredibly thorough and informative article for DZone on ColdFusion 9 performance optimizations using Ehcache. This one is required reading for all ColdFusion developers. Nice job, Rob.