I have no patience for analysts. I have little respect for them, and even less for those who pay them big bucks for their "expertise". Not all analysts mind you, I have not had to deal with them in lots of industries, and maybe some in some industries have some opinions of some value. The ones I...
I introduced Blackstone to over 40 user groups today. From Australia to Brazil to South Africa to Germany to Colombia, to all over the USA and Canada, and all in about 3 hours. Impossible? Not if you are using Breeze, and each time I present a Breezo (Breeze presentation have been dubbed "Breezos")...
My FlashForward presentation went very well. I talked about the basics of using Flash for more than animation, Flash as a client to back-end processing. Demos, an overview of CFML, CFC basics, using the Flash Web Services and Remoting components, we went through it all, and the audience responded...
I was just in New York City last week (for a user group presentation), and am on my way back, this time to speak at Flashforward. I have an afternoon session today entitled "ColdFusion-Powered Flash: An Introduction", and will cover the use of Flash for more than animation, CF and CFML basics, and...
ComputerWeekly.com is running a story entitled "Non-Microsoft Browsers Are Most Secure Choice" (see http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=131776). The article argues that Microsoft Internet Explorer is less secure because a) it has grown to be too big and complex and that...
Eric Jones, CF columnist for SitePoint.com, has posted a column entitled "Making the Case for ColdFusion". Eric is an experienced PHP developer, who was "asked to switch from my happy PHP world to the dark side of ColdFusion", and learned that by using ColdFusion he could "do things faster,...
The North American segment of the most ambitious (and grueling) user group tour in Macromedia's history has just finished. Reactions to Blackstone (the next major version of ColdFusion) have been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic, and so I thought it worthwhile to share some of what we've...
The 2nd edition of my "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" is now available in Polish, published by Helion (http://helion.pl/, book page at http://helion.pl/ksiazki/sqloko.htm). I do not read Polish, and so have no idea how good a translation it is, but I was pleased to see that the translators...
I presented Blackstone to the Boston CFUG this evening, another great presentation (despite the heat and the lack of air conditioning). So, 2 countries, 17 states, 24 user groups, CFUN, lots of corporate presentations, numerous Breeze presentations, thousands of users, more hotels and flights than...
I first mentioned Blackstone gateways at CFUN, and there has been lots of interest and curiosity ever since. Sean Corfield is already building Blackstone gateways (using the alpha version of the product), and has blogged an overview of how he is using gateways to tie different systems together in a...