Several of you have discovered that ColdFusion XMPP gateway Google Talk bots have stopped working (those that have logged out and tried to log in again). It seems that Google Talk began requiring SASL PLAIN auth, and this is not yet supported by our XMPP gateway implementation. We are working with...
KatrinaLost.org hosts an online database of Hurricane Katrina victims (both lost and found), and an extensive housing database for victims to find nearby shelter and accommodations. After Labor Day, KatrinaLost.org will unveil a comprehensive database of jobs for displaced workers. The ColdFusion...
As soon as I mentioned the Google Talk CF Docs bot someone wanted to know if he could get to it using Yahoo IM. Well, why not? Here's what I did: Installed Zion Software's JBuddy-CF on my server Registered a new Yahoo IM account Created a gateway .cfg file for Yahoo IM Defined a new gateway...
Last week I mentioned that Google Talk was XMPP based, and that you could therefore write a Google Talk IM bot using ColdFusion. Well, I've now done just that. If you are a Google Talk user you can use cfdocs@gmail.com to do instant CFML lookups (tags and functions for now). Just type in the...
Sami Hoda of eCivis Inc wrote to let me know that his company is looking for an experienced ColdFusion developer in Pasadena, CA. Details are online .
ColdFusion Reporting generates reports in PDF, Flash Paper, and Excel formats. The most requested additional format is RTF (for use with Microsoft Word primarily), and (if all goes according to plan) we hope to add support for RTF reports in the ColdFusion MX 7 updater (codenamed "Merrimack").
The new Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) site is now online. The program concentrates on reducing poverty in developing countries and provides aid to more than 58 million people living in poverty around the world, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. This new site is powered...
I update all of my IM account passwords on a regular basis, and did so this morning. They all updated properly, except for AIM, which complained that "you used non-alphanumeric characters". The characters it was complaining about? @ and !, both of which apparently are not allowed. Oh well, I guess...
I now have books available in Russian! Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd edition) and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes have both just been released in Russian by Williams Publishing. Links to the new Russian editions are on the book pages. The full list of non-English...
Back in 2000 I posted a tip on using SQL Server triggers to obtain assigned identity field values. Someone recently asked if this was doable in MySQL, and the answer is yes, now that MySQL 5 finally provides basic trigger support. Suppose you had a table named products which contained a column...