I don't play video games much anymore, I tinker sporadically, but wouldn't call myself an active gamer, at least not like I used to be. Back in the 80s and early 90s I was a big Infocom and Sierra fan. (I actually wrote the official walkthroughs for several Sierra games way back when, although I am...
With the success of my recent Flex + ColdFusion seminar in D.C. and subsequent e-seminar last week, we'll be taking the show on the road. Join me for a half day seminar to learn why there's simply no quicker or easier way to create Rich Internet Applications than the combination of Flex 2 and...
Total Training has released an 8 hour DVD Flex 2 training course hosted by our very own James Talbot (author of the soon-to-be-released "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source"). If you are looking for a way to quickly get up and running with Flex 2, this could be the best $150 you'll spend.
SitePoint's August 2nd 2006 issue of Tech Times was released yesterday. In it, a reader asks what products and technologies she should learn (she mentions "AJAX, CSS, Flash, ColdFusion & MSSQL, PHP & MySQL, Microsoft technologies"). I have a couple of issues with Editor Kevin Yank's...
Superbreak is a UK online travel site, and WebWire has posted an interview with Superbreak's Travel Website Senior Developer Dave Spurr. Among the quotes is the following: We use Coldfusion as the core programming language within Superbreak, as well as the standard web related languages (XML, CSS,...
mxAjax is a new Ajax framework for ColdFusion built using JSON and Prototype. mxAjax is brought to us by Arjun (who first brought us CFAjax on which this new project is based).
The Real World Flex Seminar (hosted by SYS-CON) takes place on August 14th in New York City. Dave Mendels will be speaking, as will Christophe Coenraets , and others. (Unfortunately, I will not be there myself because of prior commitments). Register now and the cost is only $395 (which includes...
A TechNote entitled ColdFusion MX: Configuring the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver has just been released.
My daughter is traveling out of the country. Instead of giving her traveler's checks we gave her a Visa Travel Money card. Basically, it's a prepaid Visa card (and can thus be used as a Visa card or a debit/ATM card), and we get to monitor usage, and can load additional funds online if she needs...
A user just wrote to me to ask about using . He was trying to execute a command-line utility (based on an example I posted back in CF 5 days) and the code kept throwing Java errors. His specific problem turned out to be one of pathing, pre CFMX you may not have needed to provide fully qualified...