It's nice to see the use of FlashPaper becoming more mainstream. Sharp is using FlashPaper in a product compatibility table at http://www.sharp3d.com/partners/NVIDIA.asp. This is a great example of embedding FlashPaper within a page (as opposed to the usual PDF take-over-the-page interface). Thanks...
Firaxis Games is the creator of "Sid Meier's Pirates" (Time Magazine's Coolest Video Game 2004) and other highly rated games including the Civilization series. And Firaxis' Web site at http://www.firaxis.com/ is powered by ColdFusion (CF5, it appears). Thanks to Peter Tilbrook for bringing this one...
Proporta is shipping a Bluetooth foldable keyboard. This one is available in QWERTY and AZERTY models (AZERTY? Why?), runs on 2 AAA batteries, and works with just about all PDAs and phones. Details at http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=982&t_mode=des.
This one has bugged me for a long time. ColdFusion allows you to build SQL statements dynamically (using variables, expressions, conditions, and more), but have you ever wanted to know exactly what that final generated SQL was? ColdFusion obviously knows what it is, and if you have debugging turned...
Arguments (parameters) passed to (for UDFs and CFC methods) may be validated using the TYPE attribute which takes a data type as a value. One important type that is missing in CFMX is XML, and we plan to fix this by supporting TYPE="xml" in Blackstone. Oh, and of course itself supports...
Steve Erat posted some important messages pertaining to server stability and troubleshooting on cf-talk, and had the good sense to post the comments to his blog too. See http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6B5BD222-45A6-2844-74F691ACD0082042 and...
I just spent 15 minutes helping a customer, he had a major deadline (building a ColdFusion application as a proof of concept) and was running into last-minute-just-before-demo glitches. He IMd me for help, I sent him to my Breeze room and gave him presenter privileges so I could see his screen, and...
is used to enumerate the variables used in your code, ensuring that they exist, optionally setting default values if they do not, and possibly also validating data types. Placing a series of tags at the start of a page makes it easier to ensure that required variables exist, and that they are of...
Sure you have a mouse, but not one like this. I blogged the iDuck a while back (and actually have one of those in my computer bag), but here comes 128MB of flash memory inside a furry plush mouse, yes, a stuffed animal on a keychain that can store your precious data. If you are so compelled, see...
Government Computer News (GCN) is running a story about City of Davis, California, using ColdFusion. As per the story, ColdFusion has been used "for the past five years for its citizen-facing and intranet Web applications". Over 25,000 pages, and "most of the stuff that's displayed is database...