CNet's News.com is running a story by staff writers Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache with the sensational title Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you . The key points of the article are: A 2003 directive makes it illegal for federal agency web sites to track user activity or monitor user...
The CF Docs Bots were offline the past few days. Apparently, my serial number for JBuddy-CF expired at the end of 2005. I've updated the serial number, and the bots are all back online. Sorry about that. The addresses are unchanged: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com Yahoo IM: cflivedocs
A ColdFusion user asked me for a way to programmatically determine if a URL exists, so I threw together this UDF. It uses to attempt to retrieve a specified URL (not resolving any internal URLs, and not throwing an error upon failure). If an HTTP status code 404 is returned then the UDF returns...
TMCnet has a story on cookie use on the NSA site, and explains that despite hyper and overreaction, the "It's much ado about little". And I quite agree. And buried in the story is a little note that stats that the NSA uses "Adobe ColdFusion to deliver its public Web pages".
I have no idea when they did this, but, Google has gotten a little more intelligent yet again, this time figuring out flight searches. Do a Google Search for new york to san francisco or dtw to lax , and you'll be prompted for dates, and will be able to click to search Expedia, Hotwire, Orbitz, and...
I was just on a web site (no, not a ColdFusion powered site, and no I will not name names) browsing for specific content. The URLs used typical name=value query string conventions, and so I changed the value to jump to the page I wanted. And I made a typo and added a character to the numeric value....
Todd Sharp has created Genesis , a ColdFusion MX 7 Flash Forms based database query tool. This is a really nice utility, as well as a pretty cool demonstration of Flash Forms use.
Here are some questions that I received about my new MySQL Crash Course . I am posting the answers here in case anyone else has the same questions: Does the book cover MySQL 5? The book was written for MySQL 4.x and MySQL 5, and most of the content applies to both. However, there are chapters that...
My newest book, MySQL Crash Course , is now shipping. This book is based on my bestselling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes , and builds on top of the lessons and structure of that book. By focusing on just MySQL, this book goes into far more detail than the SQL book, and even includes...
FusionReactor (which I first mentioned a couple of weeks ago ) has been updated, and now supports stack trace even on Java 1.4.2.