Macromedia announced MX 2004 today, new versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks (http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/). Flash now comes in two editions, Flash MX (the update to Flash MX) and Flash MX Professional (a brand new Flash with a development model that will appeal to us...
is used to execute a process (executable, batch file, script, etc.) on the server. can save any generated output to a file or write it to the screen, and so many of us would wrap calls in between and tags so as to save generated output in a variable. As of ColdFusion MX 6.1 this is no longer...
Several CFMX 6.1 users have reported receiving a "Required user name is missing." error when using , , , and . The problem occurs only if there is no username and password specified for the datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator, and only if using the four mentioned tags (it does not affect )....
I have IM accounts on all of the major IM platforms (ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, AIM), and use Trillian so as to be able to access them all. I have long wondered why the likes of AOL and Microsoft allow Trillian to be used as an MSN front-end, or rather, why they have not prevented the use of 3rd party front...
A reader this morning asked me if there was a way to check if a block of text was XML. My initial reaction was to say "just use the IsXML() function", but that I checked and discovered that CFML does not have an IsXML() function. It has an IsXMLDoc() function, but that checks to see if a passed...
I received hundreds of e-mail messages this morning, some from folks wanting to know why I was sending them infected messages, and the others bounce notifications sent because mail servers had rejected mail I had sent because of bad attachments. The problem? I did not send the mail, nor did my...
CNET is running a story (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5065739.html?tag=lh) stating that the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today criticized the current crop of anti-spam legislation initiatives stating that although well intentioned, they "will do little to solve the current spam...
Are you planning on attending MAX (the conference formerly known as DevCon)? If so, and if you are interested in Web Services, you may want to attend my hands-on "Using Web Services with ColdFusion" session. Hands-on sessions tend to sell out first, so if you are interested in this one you may want...
I've added a spell checker to the comments posting page on this blog. Not that any of you needed a spell checker, but ... :-) All comments and feedback welcome.
After a day and a half without any power, no telephones (we lost cell phones on all networks as well as land lines), and almost no running water I'm back online. It looks like my site was up all the time (the data center has a backup generator), but it could not be accessed at times because most...