November 14, 2005
I just arrived in Hong Kong, and checked in to my hotel in Kowloon, facing the beautiful harbor. I am here (along with lots of other Macromedians) for MAX Greater China , 2 days, 3 tracks, over 30 sessions, BOFs, and much more. And with any luck I may actually get to see the outside of the hotel...
November 3, 2005
Charles E. Brown, Macromedia Certified Trainer and author of books on Dreamweaver Fireworks and more, is now blogging .
November 1, 2005
O?uz Demirkap? has been blogging in Turkish for a while, and has just started an English language blog .
October 29, 2005
CNN is reporting (an AP story) that four fraternity members pled guilty in the death of a college student who was "forced to drink large amounts of water during an initiation rite". The judge in the case wanted to consider a torture charge with a potential life sentence. All four men will serve...
October 23, 2005
As requested by several users, my CF Docs bot now allows you to do partial lookups, so if you did a search for "array" it will return all functions that start with the text "array", and so on.
October 22, 2005
I've spent a chunk of the weekend playing with the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) edition of the forthcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 , and I am more than impressed. And I am not even talking about features, functionality, or the installation and configuration experience (which was, by...
October 10, 2005
Qasim Rasheed is a member of the ColdFusion community (many of you met him at CFUNITED this year), and he also helped out on my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes . He asked me to post the following: You might be already aware that an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale...
September 8, 2005
The San Diego ColdFusion User Group has set up a mailing list to support anyone displaced by Katrina so that anyone who needs help or can offer help may subscribe, and the response has been unbelievable. Most of the usergroup managers are on this list and are offering Katrina victims places to...
September 6, 2005
Pearson is a big British company that lots of folks don't know, although most of you do indeed know some of the Pearson Education brands (Que, Sams, Peachpit, New Riders, Addison Wesley, and more, and that's just in the tech world; there is also Financial Times, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, and...
August 28, 2005
I update all of my IM account passwords on a regular basis, and did so this morning. They all updated properly, except for AIM, which complained that "you used non-alphanumeric characters". The characters it was complaining about? @ and !, both of which apparently are not allowed. Oh well, I guess...