The late Douglas Adams, creator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the one who taught us the significance of the number 42, and the man who introduced us all to all sorts of memorable characters (including Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Slartibartfast, Protestnic...
Federal Managers Associate (FMA) is the foremost federal employee organization representing the interests of federal managers, supervisors and executives in the federal government. With a membership of almost 200,000, FMA publishes numerous publications, and maintains a web site that is powered by...
While the U.S. Hertz site is Java based, many of the non-US sites are powered by ColdFusion. Go to Hertz and select a language from the drop down to get to the localized sites. Examples include French , German , Italian , Japanese , and Korean . I've mentioned this one previously, but it a goodie...
January 27th will be the 60th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz, and CNN's Steve Goldberg toured the former death camp as part of a journalists' study tour. His report is now online at CNN . The feelings and emotions he describes reminds me of how I felt when I visited Dachau (during one of my...
I had the opportunity to play with an online time tracking application called Logware . The application, targeted at small businesses, is a hosted solution (for $9.99 a month) that can be used to track time spent on projects and then generate invoices that can be sent via e-mail. The front-end is...
I don't have details yet, but Macromedia U.K. is arranging a user group event in the U.K., and I'll use the opportunity to present Blackstone. Tentative date is February 15th. I have no more details beyond that, but I'll post them as soon as I do (as I will when other European venues are confirmed).
CNN/Money has a story on Macromedia and market reactions to earnings reports. But the line that caught my attention reads "Macromedia, the maker of such ubiquitous Web authoring tools as ColdFusion, DreamWeaver, and Flash ...". ColdFusion ubiquitous - I like the sound of that one. :-)
The Macromedia Q3 Report for Fiscal Year 2005 breeze presentation is online. ColdFusion customers will be pleased with slides 13 and 14, Rob points out a strong increase in subscription sales in anticipation of Blackstone. Oh, and he mentions that Blackstone is due to ship this quarter. In case you...
I attended a CFLunch today. What is a CFLunch? As mentioned in a prior post , a CFLunch is a regularly scheduled lunchtime get together for ColdFusion folks, less structured and formal than a CFUG, a good way to chat, with lunch included. Today's CFLunch in Chicago was attended by over 20...
As noted previously in this blog, I am not a fan of Motorola phones. I find their software poor, the Bluetooth support sub par, and I don't really care for flip-phones in general. But each time I was disappointed with a Motorola device I simply returned it. Simple, right? Well, some don't seem to...