August 25, 2004
This courtesy of Andy Allan. The following Scottish football sites are powered by ColdFusion, Scottish Football Association (http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/), Scottish Football League (http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/), and Aberdeen Football Club (http://www.afc.co.uk/). And then there is...
August 24, 2004
I mentioned this one during my tour, the ColdFusion MX 6.1 updater is now available. This update to ColdFusion MX 6.1 consists of several fixes that have previously been available separately; the JRun Updater 3 (for ColdFusion server configurations only), new releases of DataDirect JDBC drivers and...
August 24, 2004
Consider the following situations ... * You don't have access to the ColdFusion Administration, but need to make simple changes (like registering your IP addresses for debugging). * You need temporary datasources (perhaps for data import tasks) and want to be able to programmatically create (and...
August 24, 2004
Do you have (or have you used) a quad-band GSM phone? The only ones I have seen are the Motorola v400, Motorola v500, Motorola v600, the NEC 525, the Palm Treo 600, and the Sharp GX32. (It does not look like Nokia or Sony Ericsson have any to offer, even the new SE p910 comes in three different...
August 24, 2004
"Windows Network & .NET Magazine" (at http://www.winnetmag.com/) is powered by ColdFusion. There are lots of static pages on this site, so you may have to dig around to find the .cfm links, but they are indeed there. Thanks to Steve Young for this one.
August 23, 2004
PC Welt (http://www.pcwelt.de/), ComputerWoche (http://www.computerwoche.de/) and ComputerPartner (http://www.computerpartner.de/) are German IDG publications, and all of their Web sites are powered by ColdFusion (CFMX and CF5). Thanks to Hansjoerg Posch for pointing these ones out to me.
August 22, 2004
Macromedia is now shipping Flex Builder, which is designed to provide an interactive development environment for Flex. Flex Builder is now available and bundled with the Flex trial CD and Flex purchase. Details at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/flexbuilder/.
August 20, 2004
After installing Windows XP Service Pack 2, the Windows Firewall is enabled by default. This can prevent ColdFusion MX 6.1 from functioning correctly. The technote at http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/windowsspxp2.htm describes the steps that need to be taken in order to...
August 19, 2004
I am using pre-beta versions of ColdFusion Blackstone on some of my applications (so as to test new features), and I've been updating the version used on a fairly regular basis, without any real downtime. How is this possible? Simple. I have ColdFusion running on top of JRun4. When I want to move...
August 17, 2004
I flew out of Detroit this morning. That is something I do quite frequently, so why do I mention it here? Because something odd happened; I was not asked for ID. Really. I even asked "do you need to see ID?", and the TSA screener shook her head no and waved me through. Not that I think that...