Blog

September 14, 2005

Phil Crissman On My Event Gateway Presentation

Phil Crissman has posted his notes on my Monday Twin Cities CFUG presentation on ColdFusion MX 7 Event Gateways.

September 13, 2005

TechNote: Flash Player 8 Issue With cfdocument And cfreport

An issue with Internet Explorer may prevent FlashPaper documents dynamically generated by ColdFusion from displaying in Flash Player 8. This technote explains.

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ColdFusion Flash

September 11, 2005

MAX Roommate Finder Powered By ColdFusion MX 7

Ryan Hartwich, of the Kansas City CFUG, has created an application to help MAX attendees find roommates. This one is powered by ColdFusion MX 7, and uses Flash Forms and PDF/FlashPaper generation.

Macromedia User Group Community Katrina Relief Efforts

The San Diego ColdFusion User Group has set up a mailing list to support anyone displaced by Katrina so that anyone who needs help or can offer help may subscribe, and the response has been unbelievable. Most of the usergroup managers are on this list and are offering Katrina victims places to...

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Stuff

September 8, 2005

CFDocs Google Talk Bot Inexplicably Back Online

This is weird. As I mentioned a few days ago, Google Talk made changes to their authentication requirements, and as a result the ColdFusion XMPP gateway could no longer connect to that service. And as expected, my CFDocs bot stayed online until yesterday and then lost its connection, and once that...

Damon Cooper: RDS For CFEclipse In The Works

As blogged back in June, we announced at CFUNITED that the ColdFusion team would be working with and supporting the CFEclipse project. As noted in that keynote, RDS support is the most requested CFEclipse enhancement, and today Damon Cooper blogged that this feature is indeed in the works, one way...

Minneapolis CFUG Next Week

This is last minute, but, I'll be in Minneapolis next week and will be talking to a lunch time session of the Twin Cities CFUG on September 12th. We'll talk about gateways, asynch processing, SMS, IM bots, and more. I hope to see you there!

Houston CFUG Next Week

I'll be in Houston next week for a meeting, and am going to stay overnight to get the chance to present to the Houston CFUG on September 13th. We'll talk about gateways, asynch processing, SMS, IM bots, and more. I hope to see you there!

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ColdFusion

September 6, 2005

Pearson - A Big Company With An Even Bigger Heart

Pearson is a big British company that lots of folks don't know, although most of you do indeed know some of the Pearson Education brands (Que, Sams, Peachpit, New Riders, Addison Wesley, and more, and that's just in the tech world; there is also Financial Times, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, and...

CF Live Docs Bot Update

The bot is still connected to Google Talk (although if, or when, it disconnects it'll not reconnect ). In the meantime I have reimported the syntax for all CFML tags (it is much cleaner now), and have also added an AIM interface. Here are the addresses: AIM: cflivedocs Google Talk: cfdocs@gmail.com...