Have you successfully used your local user group to pick up a date? Did you meet your significant other at a ColdFusion conference? Has ColdFusion changed your personal and love life (and not in some creepy kind of way)? If so, let us know. We're planning the big ColdFusion 10th birthday bash and...
A ColdFusion user e-mailed me with a problem; he needed to add an XML DOM into another XML DOM, essentially making the first DOM a child node of the first one. Simple assignments returned the following error: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it....
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Hybridcenter.org , a ColdFusion powered site dedicated promoting the understanding of hybrid technology. Well, here's another important site on the same important topic. EV World has been online since the beginning of 1998, and is dedicated to providing a human...
FitzandFloyd is an example of a ColdFusion MX 7 powered e-commerce site, one that uses Flash Forms publicly. (It also uses printing/reporting features, but those are internal). Thanks to the developer, Ken Ferguson, for letting me know of this one. If you have created a CFMX7 powered site that is...
The New York Public Library has launched NYPL Digital , a gateway to the library's rare and unique collections in digitized form. Hundred of thousands of images, photos, maps, and more, and more recently 700 audio recordings in MP3 format . And the entire collection is browseable and searchable via...
Macworld UK (a ColdFusion site, btw) has a short blurb about my upcoming UK CFUG presentation .
Ugh, I just wasted time debugging a MySQL script only to find that I had created a syntactically invalid comment. So, as a future reminder to myself (and to warn others), MySQL supports 3 different comment styles: # marks the start of a comment (until the end of the line) -- also marks the start of...
I'm going to be over in Europe the week after next, and will get the chance to talk to the UK CFUG in London while I am there. If you're in the area on June 22nd, please drop by. Details on the UKCFUG web site .
This one is relevant today, being Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and advancing the principles of organic architecture. And The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation website is powered by...
Last week I mentioned that my new Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide was shipping. As with all of the Study Guides, this book has an accompanying preparatory exam that can be used to gauge exam readiness (or just for fun, kind of). That exam is now online and can be accessed...