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...
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...
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...
I'll be back in London at the end of this month, and so another visit to the UKCFUG. This time I'll be sneak peeking Macromedia Flex. Registration for this event is required, go to http://www.ukcfug.org/.
Stay on top of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission via NASA's Flash based M2K4 site at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html. Animations, images, Mars surface exploration, trivia and more.
This is just too cute for words, Make-a-Flake (at http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/) lets you design your own snowflake using paper, scissors, and Flash. This is a really nice example of Flashifying a familiar experience.
2003 was a pretty intense and very hectic year. New products, a new baby, new books, over 150,000 actual miles logged, dozens of speaking engagements, a new blog, trips to over a dozen countries, a new Macromedia conference ... Wow! Thanks for all your support this past year, both personally and...