Microsoft ASP has been an important player in web application scripting since, well, since a year or so after the introduction of ColdFusion. From an application development process viewpoint, ColdFusion and ASP are not that different. Both are script based, both are very page centric, both embed...
Peter Ent, a Boston based developer, has posted his thoughts on Flex, Flash, and JSP. If you are interested in Flex, this is worth reading: http://www.keaura.com/flex/.
The FMP3 is a little device which accepts USB drives containing MP3's, and then broadcasts them using an FM modulator (frequency configurable using a little dial) so that you can play the music over your car stereo. Of course, a device like this needs power, and power in cars usually comes from...
Picture a cell-phone, one that looks not all that different from the one you own, until you rotate the back of its body to display a keyboard (half the keys to the left of the device and half to the right). Confused? Check out the pics at...
About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...
Spike Milligan has posted a blog entry on how to replace CF tag processing with your own functionality. Obviously, this is a dangerous thing to do (not that I would not do it myself). But having said that, this makes for interesting reading. See...
Macromedia will be hosting a MX Conference in Taiwan on November 9-10, and it looks like I'll be attending. I have no details yet, but will post them as soon as they are available.
We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...
This seems to be coming up more and more frequently, ColdFusion developers being asked to defend ColdFusion against a planned move to Java and J2EE. I now have three such messages in my inbox, and so I thought it worthwhile to share my response to this one. For starters, any suggestion of "we need...
A user e-mailed me to ask how to define JRun server instances as Windows services (so that they autostart). In case others need this same information, JRun comes with a utility named jrunsvc that is used for just this purpose. Documentation for jrunsvc can be found at...