Nokia has announced the next version of their 9000 Communicator series, the model 9500. New features include additional GSM frequencies, an integrated camera, integrated music player (supports MP3, AAC, WAV, MIDI, and Real Audio), MMS support, Bluetooth (the lack thereof was my biggest complaint of...
I'll be offline until the end of the week, back online late Sunday. So no new blog postings until then. Seeya!
This was just brought to my attention. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFMX_JAVA/ is the address of the CFMX_JAVA Yahoo Group. Not a lot of content yet, but there are code snippets showing how people can use CFMX embedded J2EE and extended J2SE together with the help of a java reflection class.
All versions of Macromedia ColdFusion MX include a MySQL JDBC Type 4 driver. However, some users may choose to use the latest MySQL JDBC driver distributed by MySQL. This new TechNote describes how to configure ColdFusion MX to use a newer version of the driver, see...
Support for dynamic datasources was dropped on ColdFusion MX (it had been introduced in ColdFusion 5), and this has made it difficult to connect to data files without having to define a datasource. I was asked about this several times while in Japan, and promised to respond via e-mail with details...
Here is a nice little free utility, courtesy of V-Mobile Software. Bluetooth Dialer is a Pocket PC application which can dial a phone number on your phone directly from the PDA contact list. Select the contact person name on your PDA and send it to the phone to dial (without needing to store phone...
I'm about to head to Narita to fly back to the U.S. MAX 2004 Tokyo was an incredible event, thousands of attendees (even more than at MAX in the U.S.) and two days of sessions, presentations, shop talk, and of course bars (including one at which I was hit on by a rather drunk non-English speaking...
One of the local Macromedians has a USB Flash disk. I know what you are thinking, "so what, we all do". True, but does yours look like a duck? I am serious, this Flash disk is in the shape of a small rubber duck, the kind a kid would play with in the bathtub. But this rubber duck has a little USB...
I just arrived in Tokyo for MAX 2004 Japan. A crowd of about 3500 is expected for the event which starts in the morning. Should be fun.
With being on the road again I completely missed this announcement. DRK6 is out, details are at http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume6/. ColdFusion developers will like the tag (modeled on ), as well as several Internet protocol tags including the ever useful...