ColdFusion developer (and CFUG manager) Steve Gustafson is on a diet, losing weight to help raise money to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease") by accepting pledges for each pound he loses between 12/10/2004 and 6/29/2005. To pledge, check his...
Charlie Griefer just brought this one to my attention. Easycfm is also running a tutorial contest. Tutorials received between December 15th, 2004 and January 15th, 2005 will be eligible to win an Apple IPod (40GB), with the winner to be decided by vote. Details at Easycfm .
dream.in.code is looking for new tutorials (on several subjects, including Flash and ColdFusion), and is running a contest looking for the best tutorial submitted to their new tutorial area. They are giving away a Klipsch ProMedia 2.0 Personal Audio System to the winner. Here are the details .
When I first heard the words "Desperate Housewives" (on a TV ad for that show) my initial reaction was "sounds like the kind of subject line that my spam filter should trap". An sure enough, I was just going through my spam filter logs and there it is, a whole bunch of messages with the subject...
Yesterday I blogged a CNET story on Blackstone, a story from August which I misread as being new. Well, Macworld.co.uk just did the same thing , and is running a short news story on Blackstone pointing to that same CNET article . I guess they must use AltaVista too. Worth noting, Macworld.co.uk is...
DesignTechnica is reporting that "Ericsson has joined the WiMAX Forum as a principal member. Earlier in the year Ericsson announced it would stop supporting Bluetooth." Ah, just think of the devices we'll be lusting after in a year or so.
CNET is running a story on the upcoming Blackstone release. All in all a good write-up, although I think they missed the boat a bit on the forms features.
I mentioned Sean Corfield's thread on last week, it now has over 30 comments, and is very compelling reading. But my own take on is a little different, let me explain ... was originally created to make ColdFusion more palatable to developers using traditional scripting languages (Perl was the...
About a dozen of you have e-mail me to ask what the machine costs, and have asked for more specs. So, here it is (for sale on IBM's web site).
This AMD powered box is a speed demon ... I just installed a full Microsoft Office 2003 installation, from start to finish, under 2 minutes! Launch Word for the first time ever, just over 1 second. Launch Excel for the first time ever, under 1 second. I wish there was a way to easily determine what...