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December 3, 2006

Ely Greenfield On Custom Flex Charts

If you do anything with Flex charting components, you MUST check out Ely's post entitled Some Thoughts and examples on making Custom Flex Charts simpler .

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December 3, 2006

Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5

Now that it looks like I'll be keeping my Samsung BlackJack (until I find something better, that is) I needed to install a Flash Player on this device. A preview release of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 (both Pocket PC and Smartphone) is up on Labs . Installation is simple enough. Once...

No Mercy For Former Nazi Guards

The Detroit Free Press is running a story today about three Michigan senior citizens (aged 81-86), all of whom are accused by the U.S. Justice Department of being Nazi guards (or of assisting the Nazis). The debate now is what to do with these men. The DOJ's Office of Special Investigations wants...

ZarMedia Offering ColdFusion Hosting In Brazil

Ari Zanuto is one of the founding members of the Brazilian ColdFusion community, he's a former co-worker, and is an Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) Certified Instructor. Ari recently launched ZarMedia , a hosting company offering ColdFusion hosting (Windows 2003 based, running ColdFusion 7.0.2)....

Major Windows Smartphone Limitation

I did not realize this until I needed it today, but ... ActiveSync syncs Outlook features, right? Calendar? Yes. Contacts? Yes. Tasks? Yes. E-Mail? Yes. Notes? Nope! Outlook notes are synchronized if you have a Windows Mobile device, but not if you have a Windows Smartphone device! I can't think of...

ColdFusion Is Not A DBMS!

I just spent some time helping a very irate customer. You know, the "ColdFusion sucks" "we're going to dump CF" "how can you sell this ****" brand of irate. The cause of all of this anger and frustration was very serious ColdFusion performance issues. And I am sure the individual has been under a...

Hal Helms On ColdFusion Futures And Direction

Hal Helms has written an article entitled A New Vision for ColdFusion . For the most part, I agree with everything Hal says, although I don't really see this as a new vision, as much as being true to the original vision and intent. This one is recommend reading.

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 Released

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 (containing a total of 14 fixes) has been released.

RIAForge 100th Project

As Ray Camden just posted , RIAForge has hit a major milestone, it's 100th project posted. Thus far, RIAForge has blown away our usage projections!

Toronto Has A New Flex User Group

I presented CF/Flex and Scorpio sneaks to the Toronto CFUG earlier this week. At the event, Oliver Merk announced the formation of a new Toronto Flex User Group , and the inaugural meting is set for January 23rd, 2007. This is great news for the Toronto community!