I've come down with a horrible flu. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that this is not fun. I was supposed to present to the Southern California ColdFusion Users Group (SCCFUG) tonight, but that is not going to happen now. The group web site at http://www.sccfug.org/ will post the...
German Macromedia partner Interlake GmbH is graciously offering free ColdFusion and Flash Comm Server hosting to any ColdFusion community or user group sites. They have also created a Flash Comm application that can be branded and used by user groups to broadcast meetings. To learn more visit...
CFFaq.com is now online in Romanian, bringing the number of live languages to thirteen. Thanks to Andrei Oprea for the translation. Visit http://www.cffaq.com/ to browse the FAQs, as well as to comment on questions and answers, or to suggest additional questions.
A user asked me for a list of the various online exams hosted on my site, so I threw an exam listing page together at http://www.forta.com/books/exams.cfm. Old (as in updated) exams are listed too, as are exams I host for other authors (the Flash ones). If you are feeling brave, try the ColdFusion...
I spent some time today playing with the latest version of BrowserHawk (sent to me by Richard Litofsky of cyScape, thanks). If you've never heard of BrowserHawk, it is a server-side utility which reports browser capabilities and features (whether cookies are enabled or not, which plug-ins are...
Lots of chatter on the lists today in response to the announcement that Contribute 2 has a product activation feature designed to curb the use of unlicensed software. While I am not a big fan of activation schemes in any form, the fact of the matter is that casual piracy is a big problem (decreased...
Several blogs have quoted me as saying that "Red Sky" (the ColdFusion MX maintenance release due out this summer) can deliver mail at 1 million messages per second. The origin of this quote seems to be an online user group presentation I gave last month, but the quote is slightly off. What I did...
Here is a question I received via e-mail over the weekend, and my response. I thought it was worth sharing. What does the "Use J2EE session variables" ColdFusion Administrator option do, and should I use it? And if I should use it, why is that option not checked by default? There are two ways that...
Three more locations added to my summer US user group tour, two locations in CA and one in TX. Dates and locations are posted on my home page. If you're in the area (or rather, if I'm in your area), make sure to come by and say "hi".
ColdFusion lets developers access files and directories using tags like and and functions like FileExists(). These tags and functions have access to local drives only. ColdFusion (on Windows) runs as a service, and Windows services by default cannot access other servers. Is there a workaround? Yes,...