November 4, 2009
I just received three new translations of my books, two into Simplified Chinese and one into Korean: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL In 10 Minutes is now available in Simplified Chinese MySQL Crash Course is now available in Simplified Chinese Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is...
November 3, 2009
Fellow Adobian Terry White (a rock star in the CS world) has created an iPhone app to teach you Creative Suite . Pretty slick!
November 3, 2009
ColdFusion DevCamp takes place this Saturday at Adobe's San Francisco office. This will be an interactive event where attendees will work in small teams to build projects using ideas from the team members or from a suggested list of projects. This event is free and will be led by community members...
November 2, 2009
Later this month we'll be running a series of free full day seminars for ColdFusion developers, focused on getting started with Flex, using Flash Builder 4, and ColdFusion Flex integration. We'll be hosting events in Plano TX, Durham NC, Denver CO, Newport Beach CA, Atlanta GA, Chicago IL,...
October 31, 2009
It looks like the ColdFusion as a Service feature is really catching on! Last week I mentioned a new SitePoint article on the subject. And now Matt Gifford has posted an excellent and thorough article on the subject entitled ColdFusion as a Service (part 1) (which I assume implies that he plans a...
October 29, 2009
Hosting.com has announced the availability of ColdFusion 9 in cloud deployments starting at $125 per month. (Although it looks like they have yet to update their Cloud Enterprise page to reflect this).
October 28, 2009
SitePoint has published an article by Kai Koenig entitled ColdFusion 9 at Your Service: Image Manipulation with AIR . Kai uses AIR and ColdFusion image manipulation functions to demonstrate CF9's new ColdFusion As A Service (CFaaS) feature.
October 26, 2009
A user just e-mailed me asking how to digitally sign e-mail messages sent using ColdFusion tag. Well, as it so happens, this was just added as a feature to ColdFusion 9 . You can now specify the following, both as defaults in ColdFusion Administrator, and as attributes: KEYALIAS - Alias specifying...
October 25, 2009
One of the most talked about MAX keynote demos was the FedEx Custom Critical shipment tracking dashboard as presented by FedEx's Adam Mollenkopf. And now RedMonk's Michael Coté has posted an interview with Adam where they look at the app, discuss the business case, and explain why the...
October 24, 2009
This one was a pain to figure out, so I am sharing it here in case others can use the info (or for the next time I need it myself). iPhone supports syncing with multiple calendars, and displays them in a single integrated calendar using a different color for each. But have you ever tried to remove...