May 26, 2004
Yep, Cold Fusion (with a space) Laser Therapy targets acupuncture points to help end addiction to smoking and nicotine. We always knew ColdFusion was good for you, and now NBC13 in Alabama agrees (see http://www.nbc13.com/health/3354434/detail.html). :-)
May 24, 2004
My Summer 2004 User Group Tour (see http://www.forta.com/, right column) kicks off in Toronto on Monday, and I am looking forward to meeting lots of you at lots of stops over the 5 week period. For those of you who are members of a group not on the schedule, I am pleased to announce that I'll be...
May 24, 2004
As per Comcast engineer network engineer Sean Lutner, (see http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5218720.html), Comcast users send 800,000,000 e-mail messages a day, of which 700,000,000 seem to be generated by bots, "a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American...
May 23, 2004
TechBookReport positively reviewed my Regular Expressions book a few weeks ago, and so I was really pleased to see that they just reviewed my other Teach Yourself book, "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes". As per the review, "Don't be fooled by the '10 Minutes' claim, this is by no means a...
May 23, 2004
Apparently, Microsoft has paid Opera $12 million to avert a potential lawsuit over a claim that Microsoft deliberately made pages on MSN incompatible with Opera's browser. Story on http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5218163.html and elsewhere. Which raises two questions ... 1) So what? If I want to...
May 23, 2004
Our very own Tim Buntel is now blogging at http://www.buntel.com/blog/. Tim is the ColdFusion Product Manager at Macromedia, and in his words is "here to give you a wee look into the world of ColdFusion". For those of you who can't place the name, think back to the last two conferences ... Day 2?...
May 22, 2004
ThinkOutside (the maker of the Stowaway keyboards used with many PDAs, see http://www.thinkoutside.com/) announced plans for a Bluetooth keyboard back in December 2003. And since then I have been waiting for the actual device. Well, it looks like the wait is over. The Mercury News is running a...
May 20, 2004
During yesterday's MacroChat, lots of you asked question about making ColdFusion available to colleges and universities. I mentioned that there was indeed a program in place, but I did not have the details and URL to hand at the time, and so am posting the information here. Macromedia Developer...
May 20, 2004
IIS 6 has been remarkably successful since it was introduced just over a year ago. As per Netcraft (reported in May 2004), "2,100,000 hostnames were identified on Windows Server 2003, with a gain of 390,000 hostnames since April 2004. Around 50% of these are new sites, while just under 100,000 have...
May 20, 2004
This one sent to me by Jared Rypka-Hauer. The Gates Millennium Scholars was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college...