This is an oldie, but a goodie (I am blogging it partially so that I don't forget the URL again). http://www.skepdic.com/ is "A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions", over 400 articles in all. I don't necessarily agree with all of Robert Carroll's positions,...
Earlier this week I blogged an example of Flex embedded in ColdFusion. This is a powerful and intuitive way to leverage Flex, but the installation and setup do require some know-how and manual tweaking. So, having gone through the process, and knowing that many of you will want to do the same, I...
NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena) is one of the most popular Web destinations right now. The next time you visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ pay close attention to the URLs, lots of them have a .cfm extension. JPL has been using ColdFusion for a...
My latest CFDJ column, entitled "I Don't Hate Dreamweaver", is now online. You can read it at: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=696.
I'll be in Edinburgh later this month, and will get the chance to speak to the Scottish CFUG (for the first time) on Monday, January 26th. Topic and specifics have not been announced, so no details yet (although I think I can safely assume that we'll meet for drinks). Details should be posted...
My last Flex blog post demonstrated Flex as a ColdFusion client, a n-tier application using ColdFusion as the logic layer and Flex as the presentation layer. Here is another way to integrate Flex and ColdFusion; dynamically generated Flex. Click on URL http://www.forta.com:8100/cf/flex/tree.cfm to...
The Salt Lake Tribune is running a story (by a Boston Globe columnist) on corporate bloggers, starting with the tale of a Microsoft employee who was fired for blogging "a photo of a pallet of Apple Macintosh computers being delivered to Microsoft headquarters". The story goes on to suggest that...
ZDNet is running a story on the emergence of Flash as an alternative to Windows Media Player, RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Apple's QuickTime. Nothing shockingly new, but useful perspective nonetheless. Story is at http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5139102.html.
It had to happen, I just ran into the first real glitch in my car's Bluetooth feature - no support for +. All dialing is via voice recognition, you say "dial" to dial, "pair" to pair a phone, "phonebook" to access the phonebook, "one" for 1, and so on. Managing phones and phonebook entries works...
I've been buried in DBMS software this past week, and just finished brand new installs of DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sybase on Windows and Linux boxes. (No, I am not a masochist, this was to test SQL scripts on lots of platforms). Of the six DBMSs listed, all but MySQL and...