I wrote an app that I use to allow BlogCFC posts via e-mail. This particular blog is an internal Adobe blog, and anyone with a valid Adobe LDAP login can post to it. (I also wrote some code that updates Ray's login code so as to update tblUsers table with new users as needed). BlogCFC has grown...
I'll be in Dayton, OH, next week for a customer meeting. And while I am there, I'll be chatting about ColdFusion 8 at an event at Books & Co in Beavercreek. The event is on January 9th at 7:00pm. Incidentally, this Books & Co location is at The Greene Town Center, and the The Greene site is...
We are scheduling a massive big Flex 3 / AIR Pre-Release Tour in the upcoming months. The whole Platform Evangelism team is involved in this effort, along with many others, and I'll be presenting in just a few locations. In the U.S. I am currently scheduled to present in Atlanta GA, Cary NC, and...
The FTC requires that copies of your credit report (from all three major national credit reporting companies) be made available free of charge annually, and free must really mean free! Checking your credit report is important, if for no other reason than to make sure that there are no accounts or...
XNA Game Studio is a development environment for creating games for Windows and XBox 360. And the XNA team has announced that XNA Game Studio 2 has been released and is ready for download. Lots of new samples and tutorials too. Cool stuff!
Microsoft Virtual PC uses virtual machine hard drive images as disks. These VHD files are typically dynamic in size, they grow as necessary. And I had one grow on me yesterday to over 40GB in size! Microsoft provides a Virtual Disk Wizard which can be used to compact virtual disks (when the virtual...
If you have yet to run into WebKinz , don't feel bad - it may just mean that your age is measured in double digits. For the uninitiated, WebKinz are stuffed animals that each come with a secret code that uniquely identify them. Armed with their stuffed animals, kids go to the WebKinz site, create a...
CNet is running a story entitled New players enliven open source summarizing important open source announcements and projects of 2007, stating that "In 2007, much of the open-source action happened outside the corridors of the usual corporate suspects." The story then lists several companies and...
CFWACK 8 Volume 3 - Advanced Application Development is now shipping (I received my copies a few days ago). Some of the new content includes server monitoring, .NET integration, working with data feeds, and more. More details on the book page .
The ColdFusion 8 edition of the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is now 1800 pages in 3 volumes. And that was not enough space for all we had cover. So, an additional 678 pages of content were published electronically in PDF form, and may be freely downloaded (whether or not you buy the...