Hello from Paris, where I have a short 2 hour stopover here on the way to Bangalore, India. I am flying Air France, an airline I have not flown in a long time, so this may be old news to some, but it was a first for me, and had to share. The plane was equipped with personal screens in the back of...
Dream In Code has posted a PDF ColdFusion Quick Reference Sheet that you can download for free.
If you are a ColdFusion shop, and also use Breeze for meetings and presentations, please let me know (so that I may pick your brains).
I needed to replace my router/firewall recently (my old Symantec Firewall Appliance was behaving erratically and regularly killing connections, and reinstalling the firmware did not help). I looked at multiple options, and ended up selecting a SonicWALL device. My initial experience with SonicWALL...
I've written and talked about event gateways for a while, and the very first time we ever mentioned gateways publicly was when I demoed the Directory Watcher gateway at CFUNITED 2005. Jeff Peters saw that demonstration, and noting that its significance failed to resonate with many, has written a...
Want to write your own games for Xbox 360? Microsoft has announced the availability of the XNA beta , initially to build games for Windows, but eventually to build games for Xbox, too. More details on the FAQ page. Now you have a really compelling reason to learn C#!
Sterling Ledet is offering a class entitled "Using ColdFusion or Java with PDF files and eForms". If you work with PDF files and forms check this out (select "ColdFusion - Using ColdFusion or Java with PDF files and eForms" from the drop down).
I'll be in the U.K. briefly next month (on my way back from India), and will use the opportunity to present ColdFusion and Flex 2 to the new Thames Valley CFUG. The event is on September 12th and registration is required .
DateDiff() is usually used to perform date difference calculations. But for simple difference calculations you can subtract dates from each other, like this: #Now()-mydate# days since #DateFormat(mydate)# The returned number will likely not be an integer, and will contain date fractions too, so you...
I was working on a Flex component to display ColdFusion debug data in a usable format, but then learned that Mike Nimer had beaten me to it (and created something far more elaborate than I was planning). So, if you are looking for something akin to in Flex (usable with any AS3 objects, including...